Works by Friday, 1970-2008

Scope and content:

Series 2, Works by Friday, 1970-2008, undated, includes drafts, fragments, and manuscripts of published works; cassette tape interviews of subjects for her books My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity andMy Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies; drafts of unpublished works; unrealized projects; publisher proofs; galley proofs; published copies of her books in multiple languages; and other materials related to works by Nancy Friday. The unrealized projects include short fictional stories by Friday titled "Nekkid Party," "The Faithful Girl: 1970," "Jealousy Kills," and "May the Blue Door of Happiness Shut on You." Friday also wrote several book to TV adaptations of her works that never happened, including a screenplay for My Mother/My Self and a television series based on My Secret Garden. The series includes several other unrealized projects, including a book titled How To Be Annie and an essay about her thoughts afterMy Secret Garden was published. Published works in this series include essays; screenplays; early drafts of My Secret Garden,Forbidden Flowers,My Mother My/Self,Jealousy; Women on Top;Beyond My Control; andPower of Beauty; and interview transcripts for Jealousy andMy Mother/My Self.

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Access and use

Parent restrictions:
The users of this collection may not publish, photocopy, transcribe, disseminate, or photograph any personally identifiable information (PII) associated with the individuals writing to Friday about sexual fantasies, personal experiences, or other topics for inclusion in her work, including but not limited to: addresses, phone numbers, legal first and last names or initials, photographs or likenesses, birthdays, and employment/educational information. Materials written by minors (those who were under 18 years of age at the time of writing these materials) are restricted until January 1st, 2072. This includes a small portion of the materials in Series 1, Sexual Fantasies and Fanmail. All users of the Nancy Friday collection will need to sign an NDA (latest version: https://archives.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/NancyFridayNDA2023.pdf) that ensures they have read and agreed to the restrictions in place with these materials before accessing the collection.
Parent terms of access:
The users of this collection should not publish, photocopy, transcribe, disseminate, or photograph any personally identifiable information (PII) associated with the individuals writing to Friday about sexual fantasies, personal experiences, or other topics for inclusion in her work, including but not limited to: addresses, phone numbers, legal first and last names or initials, photographs or likenesses, birthdays, and employment/educational information. We cannot make scans of any materials in series 1, or in boxes 62-63 of series 6 (Tomorrow Show materials); all other series scans will be made at archives staff discretion.
Location of this collection:
Barnard Archives & Special Collections
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
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