Preliminary Inventory of the Sara Evans Papers, 1960-2000
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RepositoryRare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Creator
Evans, Sara.
Title
Sara Evans Papers, 1960-2000
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
14,145 items
(20.6 lin. ft.)
Abstract
(20.6 lin. ft.)
Sara M. Evans is a Regents Professor Emeritus in the history department at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in American social and women's history during the 20th century.
The materials in this collection consist largely of subject and research files accumulated by Evans during her career as a professor and historian of women's history. Subjects include feminism, minority women, religion, violence, civil rights, lesbianism, motherhood, and employment. Materials range in date from the 1960s through the 1990s. The collection also contains audiocassette tapes from a series of interviews conducted by Evans in her research for her book, Personal Politics, as well as a slide show from a feminist organization. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Sara Evans Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
Gift, 2008 (2008-0133), 18.9 lin. ft.
Gift, 2008 (2009-0063), 0.2 lin. ft.
Processing Information
Collection is unprocessed; cataloged from accession records.
Encoded by: Meghan Lyon.
Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2008-0133, 2009-0063.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Sara M. Evans is a Regents Professor Emeritus in the history department at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in American social and women's history during the 20th century.
Her publications include Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (1979, 1980); Born for Liberty: A History of American Women (1989); and Journeys That Opened Up the World: Women, Student Christian Movements, and Social Justice, 1955-1975 (2003).
Sara Evans was born in South Carolina and lived in Texas before receiving her bachelor's degree in history from Duke University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago. She graduated from the University of North Carolina with a doctorate in American history. She spent her academic career teaching and researching women's history at the University of Minnesota before retiring in 2008.
[top]Collection Overview
The materials in this collection consist largely of subject and research files accumulated by Evans during her career as a professor and historian of women's history. Subjects include feminism, minority women, religion, violence, civil rights, lesbianism, motherhood, and employment. Materials range in date from the 1960s through the 1990s. The collection also contains audiocassette tapes from a series of interviews conducted by Evans in her research for her book, Personal Politics, as well as a slide show from a feminist organization. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
The addition (2009-0063) consists of an envelope of material that documents activist activity by Evans while a Duke University student (~1966) in support of unionizing by university staff. It includes petitions, newsletters, and other printed material supporting the activities of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees of the AFL-CIO at Duke University. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Women's history--United States.
- Women's rights--United States.
- Feminism--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights--United States.
- Minorities--History--United States--20th century.
- Women and religion.
- Women--Violence against.
- Evans, Sara M. (Sara Margaret), 1943-
- National Organization for Women.
- Organization of American Historians.
- AFL-CIO.
- United States.
- Audiocassettes.
- Slides (photographs)
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Detailed Description of Collection
Sara Evans Papers 1960-2000
16 Boxes
The materials in this collection consist largely of subject and research files accumulated by Evans during her career as a professor and historian of women's history. Subjects include feminism, minority women, religion, violence, civil rights, lesbianism, motherhood, and employment. Other items include printed materials and publications, curricular materials, and some correspondence. The collection also contains audiocassette tapes from a series of interviews conducted by Evans in her research for her book, Personal Politics, as well as a slide show from a feminist organization.
Syllabi and course curriculum from the University of Minnesota
Box 2
Printed materials
"Readings and Resources on Asian American Women and Curriculum Transformation"
"Readings and Resources on American Indian Women and their Culture and Curriculum Transformation"
"Native American Women: A Bibliography,"
1981
"To All Inquiring Friends: Letters, Diaries, and Essays in North Dakota,"
1979
"Multicultural Women's Sourcebook,"
1982
"Women's Historical Resources Catalog"
"Women, Cultural Diversity, and the Curriculum"
"Teaching Women's History"
"Recent U.S. Scholarship on the History of Women"
Subject files, 1990s
Sexuality
Reproductive rights
(2 folders)
Motherhood and birthright
Portrayals of women in popular culture
Sports
Miscellanous issues
Feminism in the 1990s
(3 of 4 folders)
Box 3
Subject files, 1990s
Feminism in the 1990s
(4 of 4 folders)
The next generation
Backlash/antifeminism
International organizing
Men's movement
Context, 1970s-1980s
Sources, notes, bibliographies, etc.
Pornography
Discrimination
The
"Woman Question"
Employment issues
Violence and women
Miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Printed materials
Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement
Off Our Backs
Organization of American Historians Conference, 1980: Comment on Gerda Lerner
Iowa multiculturalism; non-sexist approaches to social studies curriculum conference
CAFS newsletter
Comparative women's history graduate programs
Department of Labor
Publications and pamphlets
Box 4
Printed materials
Women's Action Almanac
Women's Liberation and Revolution
PAWS
"The Development of a New Left in the United States"
Cassette tapes
Dorothy Julian, 1979 Aug. 9 (interview by Sara Evans)
Dorothy Julian, part 3
Rawlsons and Bowmans, 1979 Aug. 7 (conversation with Sara Evans-film viewing)
Clarence Rawlston by J. Hall and Sara Evans, 1979 Aug. 3
(2 tapes)
Ollie Hardin by Sara Evans and J. Hall, 1979 Aug. 9, tape 1
Subject files
Socialist feminism
(3 folders)
Theresa Kaminski,
"From Personal to Public"
manuscript
Organizations: C.P. Gilman Chapter
Socialism/Feminism, 1972
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
"Socialism/Feminism and Revolution"
Loose materials
Transcripts and notes: interviews for Personal Politics
Documents (civil rights/anti-war)
Joan Jordan/Pat Robinson, 1966-1968
Slideshow:
"Time is Passing: A Common Women's History,"
by the Circle of the Witch Theaters, Minneapolis, Minn.
Printed materials
Box 5
Curricular materials from the Ford Foundation project on minority women
Subject files
Sources, notes, etc.
Women's art
Women's music
Women's culture
Box 6-7
Cassette tapes with Personal Politics interviews
Box 8
Subject files
Lesbian music
Lesbian art
Mainstream lesbianism
Lesbian writing
Lesbian political activism
Lesbian feminism
Lesbian feminism debates
Lesbian racism
Sexuality and lesbians
Issues and trends in the lesbian community
Mainstream attacks on lesbians
Women's music
Coops, etc.
Battered women's shelters
Women's centers
Feminist businesses
Miscellaneous institutions
"Into the Mainstream"
Interview notes: wage justice
Feminism: contemporary views, 1970s-1980s
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Organizations
Box 9
UN Decade for Women plan
Publications
Miscellaneous
Subject and research files, 1990s
Sources
1990s general context
Multiculturism and political correctness
Various issues
(2 folders)
Girls
Women and work
Motherhood, family, and work
Women and/in politics
Anita Hill
Sexual harassment/Paula Jones and Monica Lewinski
Women's Studies materials
Syllabi
Curricular materials
Programs at other universities
Bibliographies, database searches, etc.
Box 10
Subject and research files, 1980s-1990s
Histories, retrospectives, overviews
Continuing education for women
Women's Studies, 1970s
(2 folders)
Women's Studies, 1980s
Women's Studies, 1990s
(3 folders)
Feminist scholarship
Pedagogy
Gay/lesbian studies and faculty
Sally Kenney's stuff: NWSA Conferences
Notes, bibliographies, etc
Cummings and Shuck:
"Organizing Women"
U.S. National Women's Agenda, 1976
ERA
Electoral politics
Title IX
Box 11
Subject and research files, 1980s-1990s
Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA)
(2 folders)
Coalition on Women and the Budget
NOW
League of Women Voters
NWPC
Center for Women's Policy Studies (CWPS)
Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)
National Council for Research on Women (NCRW), 1997
Unions and working women's organizations
(3 folders)
Women in academie
Girls organizations
YWCA
Subject and research files: Religion
Bibliographies, sources, etc.
Journals: women and religion
Box 12
Subject and research files: Religion (continued)
Women and religion: general
Religion and feminism, 1970s
Women in denominations
Women challenge the church
(2 folders)
Re-Imagining, 1993-1998
(2 folders)
Gays, lesbians, and the Church
Alternative religion
Subject and research files: Women of color, race, and racism, 1970s-1990s
Bibliographies, database sources, etc.
Secondaries/scholarly analyses
Overviews/primary sources
Black women, 1960s
Black women, 1970s
(2 folders)
Black women, 1980s
Black women, 1990s
Black women politicians
Individual women: biographies/autobiographical information
Race and racism in the women's movement
Struggle against racism
Box 13
Subject and research files: Women of color, race, and racism, 1970s-1990s (continued)
Latinas
Native American women
Asian American women
"Women of Color"
articles, 1980s
Anti-semitism
Women's movement liberation files, 1960s-1970s
Ms. magazine
Sources (secondary), bibliographies, etc.
Consciousness raising
WRAP-Marlene Dixon
Sit-in, 1969
(2 folders)
Women's Liberation: Voices from the late 1960s-early 1970s
(2 folders)
Magazines and newsletters
Meetings and conferences, 1960s-1970s
Feminist organizations
CWLU
The Furies
Dayton Women's Liberation
Durham Women's Liberation
Box 14
Feminist organizations (continued)
Redstockings
Lollipops Power
Actions
Gay/Straight split
Eclipse
CPG-NAM
Women's National Conference, 1968
Correspondence
Printed materials
Conference papers
Box 15-16
Conference papers and articles (by Evans and others)
Printed materials
Accession (2009-0063), 1966
(1 box)
Addition (2009-0063) consists of an envelope of material that documents activist activity by Evans while a Duke University student (~1966) in support of unionizing by university staff. It includes petitions, newsletters, and other printed material supporting the activities of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees of the AFL-CIO at Duke University. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Box 17
Unionizing materials, 1966
