Women and Work, 1978-12-2019-09, bulk 1978-1992
Collection context
- Creator:
- Turbin, Carole, Bose, Christine E., Sokoloff, Natalie J., Feldberg, Roslyn, Brown, Carol, Crull, Peggy, Ferree, Myra Marx, Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Hartmann, Heidi I., and Remy, Dorothy
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, photographs, and additional documentation related to the Women and Work research group. The group, which was active starting in 1979 and met regularly in various formations through the 1990s, completed research and writing projects related to women's work experience, culminating in the publication of the book Hidden Aspects of Women's Work in 1987.
- Extent:
- .21 Linear Feet (1 half document box)
- Language:
- English .
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains correspondence related to group members research interests, meeting and publication logistics, and grant applications. It also includes reports, meeting minutes, and photographs of group members. In the preparation of donation of the collection, group members also wrote a brief history of the women and work research group, biographies of the participants, and a partial list of meeting dates/places from 1979-2000.
There is a more detailed inventory of this collection in the Barnard Archive's collection file.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Women and Work Research Group formed in December, 1978 when the American Sociological Association's Problems in the Discipline Committee gave Natalie Sokoloff, Christine E. Bose, and Roslyn Feldberg a grant to study women's work experiences. The grant gave financial support for Sokoloff, Bose, and Feldberg to organize a group of 12 women scholars in a variety of fields, including historians, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, and psychologists, to share their respective work on the topic. The group had enough funding for two weekend meetings. They first met in March, 1979 and went on to meet regularly even after the grant ended in 1980 (although several members dropped out at that time).
Their first meetings were at the Barnard Women's Center's library, and they went on to alternate meetings between Barnard and the Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College. In the meetings through the 1980s, the group members would present papers and get feedback from each other. The group members were frugal in their planning and considerate of the spaces in which they met. Their work culminated in the publication of Hidden Aspects of Women's Work, a collection of essays edited by Cristine Bose, Roslyn Feldberg, and Natalie Sokoloff with the Women and Work Research Group.
After the publication of this book, some members left and others met less regularly, but they maintained strong community and friendships. The group started meeting at a member's home in Maine once each summer, until it became a tradition of a few friends sharing their writing and experiences within their distinct careers. A larger representation of the group reunited in August, 2019 at the Barnard Archives and Special Collections.
Group members included Christine E. Bose, Nancy Breen, Carol Brown, Peggy Crull, Roslyn Feldberg, Nadine Felton, Myra Marx Ferree, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Heidi Hartmann, Amy Kesselman, Alice Kessler-Harris, Susan Lehrer, Dorothy Remy, Fran Rothstein, Natalie Sokoloff, Amy Gilman Srebnick, and Carole Turbin.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection has no restrictions.
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Reproductions can be made for research purposes.
- Preferred citation:
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Women and Work, 1978-2019; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
- Location of this collection:
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Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423Barnard College3009 BroadwayNew York, NY 10027, USA
- Before you visit:
- Please contact archives@barnard.edu with research requests or to schedule a visit; see our website for more information.
- Contact:
- archives@barnard.edu