Inventory of the Phyllis Chesler Papers, 1968-1990
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitlePhyllis Chesler Papers,
1968-1990
Creator
Chesler, Phyllis
Extent
94 Linear Feet
64,000 Items
Repository
64,000 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Phyllis Chesler Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Phyllis Chesler Papers were purchased, 1992-1994.
Processing Information
Completed February 29, 2000
Encoded by Melissa Delbridge and Lisa Stark
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
| 1940, Oct. 1 | Born in Brooklyn, NY to Leon and Lillian (Hammer) Chesler |
| 1962 | Bard College, B.A. |
| 1967 | New School for Social Research, M.A. |
| 1968-1969 |
Graduate study at New York Medical College
Psychotherapy intern at Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health
Clinical research associate at Metropolitan Hospital, New York City
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| 1969 | New School for Social Research, Ph.D. |
| 1969-1998 | Professor of psychology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York |
| 1970 |
Lecturer at various institutions, including Instititute for Developmental Studies and New School for Social Research
Psychotherapist in private practice
Cofounder, Association for Women in Psychology
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| 1972 | Charter member of board of directors of Women's Action Alliance |
| 1974 | Member of board of directors of Center for the Study of Psychiatry |
| 1976 | Cofounder of National Women's Health Network |
| 1997- | Research associate at International Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University |
| 1998 | Professor Emerita of City University of New York |
Collection Overview
The papers of psychologist, radical feminist author, and professor Phyllis Chesler span the dates 1968-1990, with the bulk of the material being dated between 1970 and 1986. The collection is divided into the following series: Writings,
Custody Speakout Project,
Women and Health Organizations, and Personal and Professional Papers. Chesler's Writings are separated into subseries by titles of her published works, and comprise the bulk of the collection. These papers include research files, interviews, and chapter drafts for her books Women and Madness;
Women, Money and Power;
About Men;
With Child;
Mothers of Trial; and Sacred Bond. The detailed research files in the Writings Series also contain audio tapes and selected transcripts of interviews conducted by Chesler in conjunction with her research on women and mental health, women's history, childbirth and pregnancy, child custody and surrogate mothers (particularly the "Baby M" controversy concerning Mary Beth Whitehead and the Stern family), and feminist concerns. The Writings Series includes Chesler's miscellaneous writings and provides insight into her personal and professional life through correspondence, manuscripts, and notes surrounding each work as well as clippings and records documenting her feminist activism.
The Personal and Professional Papers Series is subdivided into the following subseries:Teaching Material, which provides insight into Chesler's feminist activism and includes student evaluations and selected student papers for classes at the College of Staten Island and CUNY; Publicity Files, which contain reviews of Chesler's work as well as articles by and about her; Juvenilia, which documents Chesler's artistic and intellectual development through high school; People Files,
Financial Papers,
Correspondence, and Invitations. These latter four subseries document aspects of Chesler's personal and professional relationships and her family life. Among the major correspondents in the People Files Subseries are Carolyn Shaw Bell, Sheila Kaplan, Kate Millett, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Donna Shalala, Susan Sontag, and Gloria Steinem. The Custody Speakout Project Series and the Women and Health Organizations Series document Chesler's concern and activism for women's health and custody rights.
Many American feminists are represented in Chesler's personal and professional correspondence in the Writings Series as well as the People Files Subseries of the Personal and Professional Papers Series. The Invitations Subseries in that series documents Chesler's involvement in feminist, environmental, and other political events and protests. The Teaching Materials Subseries and the People Files Subseries contain correspondence, clippings, notes, and other miscellaneous materials related to individuals and institutions with which Chesler was in contact in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of the material in the People Files Subseries documents Chesler's personal and professional concerns following the publication of Women, Money and Power and prior to publication of About Men and With Child, with a particular emphasis on her relationships with other feminist writers and activists.
Chesler's professional literary career is documented in the Correspondence Subseries of the Personal and Professional Papers Series which focuses on Chesler's relationships with publishers, promotion for her books, and royalty statements related to Chesler's books. The Financial Papers Subseries also documents Chesler's business concerns and professional expenses. Further correspondence with publishers can be found in the research files of individual subseries within the Writings Series. The Women and Health Organizations Series,
Custody Speakout Project Series, and the Invitations Subseries subseries of the Personal and Professional Papers Series provide information regarding the organizations supported by Chesler.
Chesler's attention to women's custody rights appears in the Writings Series within the Mothers on Trial Subseries. The bulk of Chesler's work on child custody is documented in the Custody Speakout Project Series which contains organizational files including proposals, resource lists, fundraising projects, speaker information and agenda files for the Custody Speakout Project.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Bell, Carolyn Shaw
- Chesler, Phyllis
- Chesler, Phyllis--About Men
- Chesler, Phyllis--Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody
- Chesler, Phyllis--Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M
- Chesler, Phyllis--With Child: A Diary of Motherhood
- Chesler, Phyllis--Women and Madness
- Chesler, Phyllis--Women, Money and Power
- Childbirth--Psychological aspects
- Custody of children--United States--Case studies
- Feminists--United States--Biography
- Kaplan, Sheila, 1945-
- Men--Psychology
- Mental illness
- Millett, Kate
- Mother and child
- Mothers--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
- Mothers--United States--Biography
- Olsen, Tillie
- Paley, Grace
- Power (Social sciences)
- Pregnancy--Psychological aspects
- Rich, Adrienne Cecile
- Sex role
- Shalala, Donna E.
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-
- Steinem, Gloria
- Stern, Melissa, 1986-
- Stern, William, 1946---Trials, litigation, etc.
- Surrogate mothers--United States--Case studies
- Surrogate mothers--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States--Case studies
- Wealth--United States
- Whitehead, Mary Beth--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects
- Women--Psychologists
- Women--United States--Social conditions
- Women's rights--United States
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
 |  | Writings Series, 1969-1988 and undated | ||||||
| | Custody Speakout Project Series, 1985-1986. | ||||||
 | | Personal and Professional Papers Series | ||||||
Detailed Description of Collection
Writings Series, 1969-1988 and undated
The Writings Series is divided into subseries by the titles of Chesler's published works: Women and Madness;
Women Money and Power;
About Men;
With Child;
Mothers on Trial; and Sacred Bond. A short subseries of Miscellaneous Writings appears at the end of the series.
Women and Madness Subseries, 1969-1980 (bulk 1969-1971)
The Women and Madness Subseries, 1969-1980, (bulk 1969-1971) is composed of Research files, Correspondence, Chapter Drafts, and Audiocassettes. ACCESS TO SOME BOXES IS RESTRICTED.
Research Files
These files are primarily subject files, interview transcripts, statistical reports, and clippings. The folders maintain Chesler's original titles and are arranged alphabetically.
Box W1 (RESTRICTED)
Adolescence
Agnes C.
Amazons
(3 folders)
Angry and paranoid women
Asher
Suicide
Bad Experiences with Male/Female Therapists
Biological - Genetic Superiority
Bardwick - "Current Myths"
Burke, Helen
Category and Coding Checklist
Clinical Examples - confidential illustration
Clippings - miscellaneous
Cooper:
"Death in the family"
Dahomey - Burton
Dictation - Miscellaneous.
Doris
Eleanor Packard
Female Sexuality
Feminist Questionnaires
Feminists - Phyllis,
Lila,
Dorothy,
Pamela,
Alicia,
Mindy
Feminists - Dorothy,
Mindy,
Alice,
Phyllis
Feminists - Lila K.
Feminists - Lynn,
Lila
Feminist Notes
Grants
Helen "X" - Age 70
Laing critique - First Draft
Lesbians - Rose Interview
Lesbians - Tina,
Nancy,
Roseann,
Ellen,
Iris
Lesbians - summaries and questionnaires
Linda N.
Lundberg and Sandheim
"Modern Women: The Last Sex"
"Madness Network News"
Maimonides Medical Center
Box W2 (RESTRICTED)
Marriage and family
(2 folders)
Mental Asylum - Summaries and Questionnaires
Mental Asylum - Alma,
Denise,
Debby,
Carrie,
Aileen,
Beatrice
Mental Asylum - Helen,
Judith,
Kathy,
Marie
Mental Asylum - Justine
Miscellaneous Notes
"Mistress List" - Master list names of people participating in study
Myrna
Paranoia
The Patient
People to contact
Private patients in therapy
Problems of Women (special therapy)
Psychiatric Careers of women
Psychoanalytic Therapy
"Psychology Today"
"Psychotherapy and Women"
Quotes
S. Angrist Book
Schizophrenia
Sex Diagnosis categories
Sex role alienation - mental health
Sex typed Diagnostic Categories
Sex-Type Diagnosis
Sex with Therapists
(2 folders)
Box W3 (RESTRICTED)
Sex with Therapists - Cassandra
Sex with Therapists - Chip
Sex with Therapists - Helen
Sex with Therapists - Laura
Sex with Therapists - Lydia
Sex with Therapists - Margaret
Sex with Therapists - Muriel
Sex with Therapists - Pat
Sex with Therapists - Renee
Sex with Therapists - Rochelle
Sex with Therapists - Sonia
Sex with Therapist "Summaries and Questionnaires'
Sex with Therapists - Sylvia
Shelton Tape Notes
Social Class
(2 folders)
Social Class - Socially Prominent Mental Illness
Statistics
(5 folders)
Statistics - Age Adjusted Totals
Statistics - Census data, 1970
Statistics - Duplicates - 1961-1968
Statistics - Interview data
Statistics - Notes/Mental health
Statistics - Overall and 1960-1969
Statistics - Reports: Mental Health
(3 folders)
Box W4 (RESTRICTED)
Statistics - Reports: Mental Health
(4 folders)
Statistics - Miscellaneous
Statistics - Sex Typed diagnosis
Statistics - Table 1 - Diagnostic categories
Statistics - Vital Health Statistics
Statistics - Z test
SUNY - courses
Sylvia Plath
Szasz - Witchcraft
Therapy - evaluated
Third World Women - notes
Third World Women - quotes
Third World Women - Summaries and questionnaires
Third World Women - Tamar,
Karen,
Bernice,
Denis,
Cortez
Wilhelm Reich
Women's Movement Press
Zelda Fitzgerald
Correspondence
The bulk of the correspondence was received by Chesler after publication of Women and Madness, primarily from individuals relating their own experiences in therapy, requesting information or assistance, or offering their opinion of her work. The subseries maintains Chesler's original subject designations and is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Abuse by Female Therapists
Abuse by male psychiatrists
Abuse in Mental Asylums
Help File: Careers, Education, Information
(3 folders)
Help File: Desire for Counseling/Therapy
Box W5 (RESTRICTED)
Help File: Former Mental Patients
Help File: Legal, Medical, Economic, Childcare aid
(2 folders)
Help File: Desire to Enter Women's Liberation
Help File: Miscellaneous Help
Housewives Complaints - No psychiatric history
Housewives Complaints - Psychiatric history
Housewife Horror Stories - Psychiatric Treatment
Housewife Horror Stories - No Psychiatric Treatment
Help files - volunteers
From "The Divine"
(2 folders)
From Men: Favorable Reactions
From Men: Hostile Reactions
From Men: Pro and Con
(2 folders)
From Men: Professionals Pro
From Men: Theories with a "twist"
From Women - Hostile
From Women - Pro: book or article
From Women - Pro Phyllis Chesler: TV or lecture
From Women - "Pro WL Views with Depressing Tales to Tell."
From Women - "Pro WL Views with Good Tales to Tell"
From Women: Professionals Pro
From Women: Theories on Life, Society, Marriage, etc.
Legal Abuse and Medical Abuse
Louise Belew Newsletter
(2 folders)
Media Letters
Men in Prison and Mental Asylums
Miscellaneous
Movement People
Professional Groups: Pro
Professionals: Con
Unsolicited Men and Women 1979-1980
Box W6 (RESTRICTED)
Chapter Drafts
The typescripts, handwritten manuscripts, and notes in this subseries are arranged in chapter order with complete manuscripts filed at the end of the subseries. The folder titles reflect those established by Chesler except in cases where the folder title did not reflect the contents of the folder. In these cases each folder's contents were compared to the published version of the text in order to establish titles.
Introduction
(2 folders)
Overall Thesis
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Chapter One
(7 folders)
Chapter One - "Women and Daughters"
Chapter One - New
Chapter One - notes and quotes
Chapter One - Notes and Miscellaneous
Chapter One - Footnotes/backup material
Chapter One - miscellaneous.
Chapter Two
(3 folders)
Chapter Two, Asylums - Original and carbons
Chapter Two - Women in Asylums
Chapter Two - Women in Asylums
Chapter Two - quotes
Chapter Two - footnotes
Chapter Three - "The Clinicians" handwritten original and carbon Chapter Three
(2 folders)
Chapter Three - Clinicians
(2 folders)
Chapter Three - footnotes "Clinicians"
Chapter Three - miscellaneous
Chapter Four
(2 folders)
Chapter Four - handwritten original and carbon copy
Chapter Four - graphs and tables
Chapter Four - handwritten original and carbon copy
Chapter Four - Statistics
Chapter Four - Statistics: The Female Psychiatric Career
Chapter Four - Female Psychiatric Career
Chapter Four - New captions
Chapter Five
Chapter Five - carbon and handwritten original
Chapter Five - "Sex with Therapist" - original
Chapter Five - quotations
Chapter Five - miscellaneous pages
Chapter Five - backup materials
Chapter Five - New "The Interviews"
Chapter Six - Women in mental asylums
Chapter Seven - Lesbians - original
Chapter Seven - Lesbians in therapy
Box W7
Chapter Seven - Lesbianism, quotes
Chapter Eight - Third World Women - Original handwritten
Chapter Eight - Quotes
Chapter Eight - Third World Women
Chapter Eight - Third World Women -Transcripts and quotes
Chapter Eight - Third World Women Quotes
Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine - Feminists original handwritten and carbon copy
Chapter Nine - Feminists
(3 folders)
Chapter Nine - carbons
Chapter Nine- Quotes
(2 folders)
New Chapter Ten
New Chapter Ten - Quotes
Chapter Ten - reworked
Chapter Ten - notes
Chapter Ten-Eleven - Miscellaneous
Chapter Ten
(2 folders)
"Last Chapter"
Appendix A
(2 folders)
Tables
Bibliography
Complete Manuscript. Chap 1-5
Complete Manuscript. Chap 6-10
Manuscript, Xerox Copy - Chapters One, Two
Manuscript, Xerox Copy - Chapters Three-Five, Ten
Manuscript - incomplete
Copy edited Manuscript - pg. 1-100
Copy edited Manuscript - pg. 101-200
Copy edited Manuscript - pg. 201-300
Box W8 (RESTRICTED)
Copy edited Manuscript - pg. 301-359
Index
Foundry Proof
(2 folders)
Proofs - miscellaneous pages
Galleys
Illustrations
Art and Illustrations
Amazon Art
Cassettes
Audiocassettes of interviews conducted while researching Women and Madness, arranged alphabetically according to titles established by Chesler. Several tapes contain more than one interview. Use copies of these cassettes should be made as requested by researchers.
Aileen
Agnes
Alice K. - Feminist
Alma
Alma, I
Alma C., I-II
Bernice - Black Prostitute
Betty, I - Lesbian
Bici
"Black Teacher"
Burk (2 cassettes)
Candy - Cooper
Carol Greitzer
Carrie
Cass - Sex with Therapist
Cass, II - Sonia II - Sex with Therapist
Cathy L. (Asylum) - Dr. Levinson
Debbie
Debbie S.
Debbie, II - Mental Asylum
Denise
Doris
Doris
Doris - Sarah - Myrna
Dorothy R. - feminist
Dr. Kardines - David Alka, III
Ellen B. - Lesbian (2 cassettes)
Ellen R. - Third World
Feminist in Theory
Helen - Feminist
Incest - Sex with Therapist
Iris - Liz
Karen - Third world
Karen
Laura M., I-II
Lee Ritner's Law Suit
Lila K. (2 cassettes)
Liz
Lynn B. - Sex w/ Therapist
Margaret (2 cassettes)
Marie C. - Mental Asylum
Marya
Minda (2 cassettes)
Muriel
Muriel, III-IV
Myra
Myrna, II
Nancy
Nancy L.
Owen Rachleff
Pamela G. - feminist (2 cassettes)
Paula K.
Renee - Sex with Therapist
Rochelle III
Rose - lesbian
Sonia
Tamar
Tamar, III - IV
Thelma Ingalls
Tina
Unidentified Cassette
Box W9
Volumes
Early edition of Women and Madness and two proof editions with substantial corrections and alterations.
Women and Madness, Doubleday, 1972
Women and Madness, (proof copy) Doubleday, 1972
Women and Madness, (proof copy) Doubleday, 1972
Women, Money and Power subseries, 1974-1976 and undated
Tapes and transcripts of interviews, mostly labeled with name of person interviewed, arranged alphabetically. Research files primarily examining female psychology, attitudes to work, power, successful women, and attitudes toward money, arranged alphabetically. Chapter drafts arranged chronologically.
Box W10
Interviews, Transcripts
Employed Widow, 1974
Fasteau, Brenda
Hayman, Alice,
1974
Jones, Janet and Anne Hyde,
1974
Krause, Marlene
McWhinney, Madelene
Price, Eileen
S., Dolores,
1974
Siebert, Muriel,
1974
Trahey, Jane,
1974
Laura X, 1974
Unidentified Transcript
Summary of Interviews
Research Files
Achievement
Achievement, Carbon
Agenda, Completed, In Progress
Anxieties of Inflation
Attitudes about Work
Attitudes to Money
Ayn Rand:
The Fountainhead
Beauty
(3 folders)
Beauty Carbons
Behavior and Psychology of Women In and Out of Home
Behavior at Work
Bell, Carolyn Shaw
Biographies of Women
Birmingham, Stephen: "The Right People," 1958
Brooklyn College of Pharmacy
Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumption
Chapter Outline, Jan., 1975
Chesler and Goodman Letters
Box W11
Clippings, 1969-1975
Consumer Expenditures and Income: Survey Guidelines
Contacts: Money Book
Corporate Wives: Corporate Casualties?
Correspondence
Cosmetic Research
Cosmetics: Clothing
C.V. Materials
Dictated
Dictated, July 10-17
Discussion of Power
Double Standard in Practice
Dutton (Publisher)
Earlier Versions of Money and Women Book
Economic Education Bulletin
Economic Facts of Life
Economics of Female Beauty
Economics of Sex
Emily Goodman
Emily's Work
Exceptional Women
Female Attitudes to Money
Female Beauty
Female Physical Body
Female Psychology
Feminism
Financial Top
(4 folders)
Box W12
Final Book Outline
Form Letter Originals
Fortune,
1973
Fortune Top 10 Women
Fortune Surveys
Foundations
Full Employment--For Whom?
Gross, Helene,
1974
Group Therapy Notes
Height Studies
High Status, Affluent Women
Household Help Wanted
How to Bring Up a Child
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
The Interview
Interview Preparation
Interviews, Carbons: Employed Widow, Secretary
Interviews: Livingston, Levy; Berry, Walters
Introduction
Introduction, Draft
Introduction Including Options
Magazine Articles
Manufacturing
Marriage and Money
Marriage and Motherhood
Marriage and Motherhood Job Description
Metropolitan Clinical Internship
Minor Study #1
Miscellaneous
The Mod Donne Reviews
Money Book Correspondence
Money Book: Requests for Info
Money Contacts Pending
Money Problems
Moneysworth
Mothers as Workers, Secretaries
Mothers as Workers, Secretaries Carbon
Myth and Women
New York State College of Human Ecology
Non-market Components of National Income
Non-Payoff
Obituary Pages
Organizing Outlines
Outline, 1975
Outline and Organization
Outline: Leftovers from Beauty
Parental Influence in Successful Women
Parenting and Success
Parenting of Non-Ordinary Women
Physicality
Physicality: Body Image
P.O.N.Y.--Jean Powell
Power
Prices and Living Conditions
Prisons and Crime
Box W13
Psychodynamics of Survival
Psycho-Economics of Female Beauty
Psycho-Economics of Women at Wage Labor
Psychology and Economics of Volunteer Work
Psychology of Women
Publicity: Avon
Publicity: Bantam
Quotes
Quotes for Women and Money
Ramparts
Research Files
Rich Ladies and Volunteerism
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Science: A Process Approach
Sexual Economics
Statistics
Stock Market Cosmetics
Studies Done for this Book
Survival Tactics of Successful Women
The Token Woman
To Dictate
Varieties of Power
Volunteerism
(3 folders)
Wage Labor
Wealthy Women in America
Wealthy Women in America, Drafts 2 and 3
Welfare History
Wives/Daughters of Wealth
Wives/Daughters of Wealth, Carbon
Women at Work
Women on Money
Women, Revolution, Feminism
Work
Work and Attitudes to Work
Working
Box W14
Working Mothers
Working Women
"Working" Chapter, New
Writing for First or Last Chapter
W. W. Norton and Co.
Cassette Tapes
Use copies of these cassettes should be made as requested by researchers.
1974, March 28, Chasen, Sex Role Stereotypes
1974, April 14, Martha and Pete Wilson
1974, April 18, Women Counseling Center
1974, April 18, Women Counseling Center
1974, April 18, Women Counseling Center
1974, April 19, Meeting with Cooper
1974, May 2, Careers
1974, May 2, Pay for Motherhood/Self-Defense
1974, May 3, Pots, Pornography/ Men as Passive/ Fellatio in Pornography
1974, May 3, Sexual Deviance
1974, May 9, Class #11
1974, May 9, Class #11
1974, May 16, Class #12
1974, May 23, Class #13 Strategies for Power
1974, May 28,
Jean Powell
1974, May 28, My After Comments: Jean Powell
1974, May 31, Alice H.
1974, June 5,
M. Siebert
1974, June 5,
M. Siebert
1974, June 6,
Jane Towley
1974, June 7,
Brenda F.
1974, June 11, Management Women: Anne Hyde and Janet Jones
1974, June 11,
Anne Hyde and Janet Jones
1974, June 14, Dolores S.
1974, June 14, Dolores S.
1974, June 22, Employed Widow
1974, June 22, Employed Widow
1974, June 23,
Madelene McWhinney: Women's Bank
1974, June 23,
Shelly Cross: Executive Women
1974, June 24,
Marlene Krause: WAA
1974, June 26,
Eileen Price,
Madelene McWhinney: Women's Bank
1974, June, J.T.
1974, July 27,
Pell Cruetz
1974, Counseling Center
1974, Richmond Counseling Center
1974, Richmond Counseling Center
1975, February 27, Phyllis Explains Her Contracts
1975, March 11, Me at Kiryat/ Pat
1975, March 11,
David Shavit
N.d., ACH/Women CEO
N.d.,
Del Goety
N.d.,
Del Goety
N.d., Essay/Pieta
N.d., Judith M.
N.d., Judith M.
N.d., Notes to Wm.
N.d., Owl and Me
N.d.,
Piercy, Marge: Radio Free People
N.d., Sylvia P.
N.d., Warrior Women, Menarchy, Legendary Amazons
N.d., Untitled
N.d., Untitled
Box W15
Chapter Drafts
Introduction
Chapter 1
(2 folders)
Chapter 2
(4 folders)
Chapter 3
(2 folders)
Chapter 4
(4 folders)
Chapter 5
(4 folders)
Chapter 6
(3 folders)
Chapter 7
(3 folders)
Chapter 8
(3 folders)
Chapter 9
(3 folders)
Chapter 10
(2 folders)
Chapter 11
(2 folders)
Chapter 12
(2 folders)
Chapter 13
(2 folders)
Chapter 14
(3 folders)
Chapter 15
(2 folders)
Chapter 16
(3 folders)
Chapter 17
(3 folders)
Bibliography
(2 folders)
Original
(2 folders)
Copy, 179 Pages
About Men subseries, 1970-1979, bulk 1974-1978
This subseries is divided into three sections: Research Files, Illustrations, and Typescripts. Chesler's folder titles have been retained throughout.
Research Files, 1971-1979, bulk 1973-1975.
Predominantly consists of clippings and photocopies of articles, but also includes notes, bibliographies, and transcripts of interviews on male and female psychology, parent-child relations, sex roles, and sexual violence among other subjects. Arranged in alphabetical order by subject. Some audiocassettes and reel-to-reel tapes of various interviews by Chesler are housed at the end of this subseries; Use copies of these should be made as requested by researchers.
Box W16
About Men: Advertisement and Reviews
About Men Grant Proposal
Adolescence
Alcoholism
American Presidents: Extra men - CB
Animal Studies
Anti-Feminist Writings Violence ca. 1974
Bibliographic Work/Research in Progress: Shirley Paglia,
James Sweeny,
Norman,
ca. 1974
Bibliography -- Mainly women ca. 1974
Bibliography -- Male Psychology Books
Bibliography: Men, July 1974
For Bibliography
(4 folders)
Biological or Medical Studies
Birth Order
Black Psychology, Behavior
(2 folders)
Body Image
Brothers
Business
Cheating Science, Aug. 20, 1974
Child Abuse
Child Custody
Child Rearing: Mother-child, Family Therapy
Child Support
Congress Women
Contemporary Feminists
Discrimination
Divorced Men
Experiments on People
Family
The Famous Ladies
Famous Men
30 Famous Men (current biographies)
Famous Women
(2 folders)
30 Famous Women: Variables from Current Biographies
Fashion
Fathers and Sons
"Fathers Killing Sons"
Feminists
Film
Film Festival Material
Film Panel, ca. 1975
(3 folders)
Gambling
Group Behavior
Heightism, ca. 1971
Box W17
Hero - Mythology - Greek; money as success, ca. 1974
Hero - Warrior - money - success
Heroes
Heroes?
Homosexuality -- Male: Gay liberation
Hostility to Women
Housewives
Incest
Infanticide -- Father Killing Sons, ca. 1974
Infanticides
Intellectual Backlash, ca. 1974
Interview, July 23, 1973
Interview Questions
Interview with John, undated
Interview with Walter, May 28, 1974
Interview with Michael
Interviews
(4 folders)
"The Jocasta Complex: Mothering and Genius"
Joplin Review for the Washington Post
Koch Responses (Women of Public Achievement)
Lesbianism
Letter to Men's Anthology Collective,
Feb. 25, 1974
Male Adult -- Male Adult Violence, ca. June 1974
Male American Nobel Prize Winners - Literature, Physiology, and
Medicine, ca. 1972
"Male Attitude to Motherhood"
Male as warrior -- class, ca. 1974
Male Groups
Male Images: Additional Writings to be Added
Male Liberation Conference
Arkansas,
April 25 to 28, 1974
Male Liberation Conference,
March 1974
Male Literature, 1974
Male - Male Violence: Psychiatry, ca. 1973
Male Maternity
Male Physicality and Psychology
Male Presidents
Male Psychology
Male Revolution, Oct. 7, 1974
Male Violence
Male Violence -- Father Beating Sons, 1972
Male Violence -- Fratricide, May 8, 1974
Male Violence -- Patricide -- Sons Beating Fathers (Symbolic Also), ca. 1975
"Matriarch"
Men Prisoners, ca. 1974
Men: Resources: "Anger to father..."
Men: Resources: "Men and War"
Men: Resources: Hero
Men - To Interview
Mental Asylums, 1974
Metromedia, Jan. 4, 1979
Money
Money and Men
Money: Psychoanalytic Int.
Mothers and Sons, 9/4/75
Mothers and Sons, ca. 1975
Mothers and Sons -- Phallic Sexuality (discards), ca. 1977
Box W18
Natality, Nov. 6, 1974
Natality, Child Growth
Newspaper Clippings
Newspaper Clippings, 1977
Newspaper Clippings Battered Wives
Newspaper Clippings "Brothers and Brothers"
Newspaper Clippings "Fathers against Sons, Sons against Fathers"
Newspaper Clippings "Fathers Killing Sons"
Newspaper Clippings "Fathers Killing Sons"
Newspaper Clippings "Fathers Killing Sons"
Newspaper Clippings "Male Uterus-Envy"
Newspaper Clippings "Sons against Mothers"
Newspaper Clippings "Sons Killing Fathers," 1973 to 1976
Newspaper Clippings "Sons: Practicing"
Newspaper Clippings "World Expressions"
Nobel Prize Men, ca. 1974
Non-continuity -- Eve and Phyllis -- "Versions"
(2 folders)
Norman and Research, ca. 1974
Norman: Psychoanalytic
Note to Women's Movement
(2 folders)
Notes for Essay
Op-Ed
Op-Ed Notes
Paternity Leave, Feb. 14, 1974
Political Sadism -- General Calamity, ca. 1970
Politicians and Sex, Oct. 11, 1974
Pornography, ca. 1974
Preface
Preface Materials (Discarded)
Principal Religions
Prostitution, July 10, 1974
Psychotherapy/Psychology
Racism, June 2, 1975
Rape
Rape, ca. 1975
(2 folders)
Readings Series
(3 folders)
Religion and Sex
Reprint Regrets and Answers
Research on Males, Bibliography, Articles and Books
Section III: "Male Realities"
Selective Inattention
Sex and Money, Nov. 7, 1974
Sex, ca. 1974
Sex Roles, ca. 1973
Sex Roles: Male-Changing, Oct. 16, 1974
Sex Slaying, Sept. 3, 1974
Sex-role Stereotypes, ca. 1975
(2 folders)
Sex-role Stereotyping Childhood, ca. 1974
Sexes -- Battle/War of, ca. 1974
Sexuality, ca. 1974
Singles and Divorced, ca. 1974
Box W19
Sociological Papers, 1975 to 1976
"Sons Against Mothers"
Sons Practicing
Success--Male
To Be Dictated
Transvestite and Transsexual, ca. 1974
Unemployment, Oct. 20, 1974
"Untying the Family"
Veterans, ca. March 1974
Violence: Aggression, ca. 1971
Violence: Male (General), ca. 1974
Violence: Male Delinquency, ca. 1973
Warriors, Money, Fathers and, ca. 1975
"Warriors:" Nationalism
Warrior - Successful Men - Money; Male-Male Violence, Summer 1974
Women and Drugs
Women's Liberation, ca. 1974
Women's Movement: Men's Reaction, ca. 1971
Women -- Nobel Prize
Women in Arts, ca. Sept. 1974
Women in Sports
Work, ca. 1974
Work Houses: Victorian Society/Welfare, Oct. 16, 1974
Alcoholism, Addiction, May 10, 1974 (1/2 mil reel-to-reel tape)
Male Impotence, June 9, 1974 (audiocassette)
Male Menopause, June, 1974 (audiocassette)
March 8, 1974 (1/2 mil reel-to-reel tape)
Side 2--Crime and Drug Addiction, April 14, ca. 1974 (1/2 mil reel-to-reel tape)
Walter, May 23, 1975 (audiocassette)
Untitled, undated (6.35mm reel-to-reel tape)
Illustrations, ca. 1977
Photographs, photocopies, lists, captions, and permissions for illustrations for About Men. Includes illustrations and captions used in the book as well as those that were discarded. Arranged in alphabetical order.
Captions (discards)
Discarded Captions
Extra Photos -- Plates
Levin, Eli, "Oedipal"
Male Images: Photographs and Captions
Male Images: Photographs and Captions, Feb. 6, 1977
Partial List of Plates (pictures)
Permissions (discards), Feb. 22, 197?
Photocopied Plates (not used)
Photographs
Photographs
Photos and Captions
Pictures
Pictures (discarded or duplicated)
Pictures (discards)
Pictures (dropped)
Pictures (unused)
Pictures, "The Life of Jesse"
Box W20
Pictures, Captions
Pictures, Images
Pictures, Permissions
Re-Written Captions, March 30, 1977
Untitled
Typescripts, 1971-1979, bulk 1975-1978
Typescripts and some manuscript notes of individual chapters; complete typescript drafts of the book. Includes early versions of the book under the title Lovers and Warriors. Original folder titles, which roughly parallel chapter titles in the published work, have been retained. Original order of folders has been retained. Complete typescripts and proofs are at the end of the subseries.
Section I, Dec. 29, 1976
ca. 1977
(4 folders)
Autobiographical Portraits, March 16, 1977
(2 folders)
Epilogue
"Fathers and Sons," "Talking to Men about Sex," "Brothers"
Part II: Male Realities: Autobiographical Portraits, 1962 to 1971
Bibliography
Bibliography
"Talking to Men," "Brothers"
Part I: Male Images: Reflections of Eden
(3 folders)
Preface
(2 folders)
Material left over for Preface/Epilogue
Box W21
Annotated Bibliography
Male Realities
Incomplete Preface
Preface and 2cc
"Relatives" (not usable)
Aug. 10, 1976
Autobiographical Portraits
"Mothers and Sons," "In New York City"
Pages 10 to 280
"Mothers and Sons,"