fall 2016
This postcard talks about black women work opportunities during around the 1940s, Joanne says the condition of black women workers was much better than before, the equal pay promotions were decreed by new laws. 1943 was the year of WW2, in my mind, before WW1, the black workers still had …
This is a letter from Linda Grant De Pauw, she talks about Fantastic Feminist doll propaganda with Joanne McQueen. Linda wants her to have a doll description to active duty military women. She also describes her worries about military women occupation development. In last week’s class, we just talked about …
This is a letter from Gail Cordner, written on September 2, 1982 to exhibitors who were going to share merchandise at the annual meeting of the Ohio chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). In the letter, she explains how to prepare materials for the NOW Conference Program. To …
In 10th Anniversary Luncheon of Women in Film 1983, the film editor Margaret Booth, the actress Bette Davis, Ruth Gordon and Carmen Zapata attended as honor guests. Honestly, I don’t know anyone of them, but I heard Margaret Booth and Carmen Zapata in other classes. Carmen Zapata attended this Luncheon …
Joanne McQueen mentions NOW (National Organization for Women) a lot in most of her letters. She attended many times of NOW meetings in her career life. Through her letter content, it is easy to find that she did a lot of feministic and business work for the organization, and had …
In this folder, the most interesting page for me is a music festival poster from 1982, it is called “National Women’s Music Festival”, it is a two-night festival in Bloomington, Indiana, the theme is feminism. The entire concert instruments players and singers are feministic activists. Since 1982, the National Women’s Music …