Preliminary Inventory of the Margaret McFadden Papers, 1970-2009
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
McFadden, Margaret
Title
Margaret McFadden Papers, 1970-2009
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
51.2 Linear Feet
29,893 Items
Abstract
29,893 Items
Feminist scholar and activist; founder of the Women's Studies Program and professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
Collection (2003-0264) (14,000 items, 27 lin. ft.; dated [1970s]-2003 and n.d.) comprises McFadden's professional papers. Includes published materials, conference files, materials related to the Southeastern Women's Studies Association (of which she is a founding member), correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and subject files. This collection also includes several additions; please consult the Collection Overview below to learn more about their contents. 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], Margaret McFadden Papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Margaret McFadden Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a
gift from 2003-2009.
Processing Information
Processed by Meghan Lyon, January 2009
Encoded by Meghan Lyon, January 2009
Updated by Meghan Lyon, September 2009
This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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 Note
Margaret McFadden is a feminist scholar and activist; founder of the Women's Studies Program and professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
[top]Collection Overview
Collection (2003-0264) (14,000 items, 27 lin. ft.; dated [1970s]-2003 and n.d.) comprises McFadden's professional papers. Includes published materials, conference files, materials related to the Southeastern Women's Studies Association (of which she is a founding member), correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and subject files. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Addition (2005-0003) (2585 items, 5.0 lin. ft.; dated 1979-1999 and n.d.) comprises primarily research files, book notes, correspondence with other scholars and with her publisher, and drafts related to McFadden's book Golden Cables of Sympathy (1999). Also includes materials and notes from conferences she attended.
Addition (2005-0089) (2683 items, 4.2 lin. ft.; dated 1974-2005) comprises correspondence, subject files, reviews, research notes, and photographs related to Golden Cables of Sympathy; brochures, programs, and notes from conferences; academic files related to Ph.D students who were part of the Projects Demonstrating Excellence at the Union Institute Graduate School in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995-2002.
Addition (2006-0001) (1125 items, 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1989-1998) consists of correspondence, subject files, reviews, research notes, and academic files McFadden maintained during her professorship. There are also brochures, programs, and notes from conferences, including a paper delivered at the 8th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 8-10 June 1990. There are also newsletters; files McFadden kept while a Fulbright professor in Finland, 1991-1992; and ephemera.
Addition (2007-0124) (750 items; 1.2 lin. ft. ; dated 1982-1994) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials relating to women's studies books and articles by McFadden. Also included are grant proposals, recommendations, and book catalogs.
Addition (2007-0202) (2000 items; 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1975-2007) includes research materials, notes, and academic files from McFadden's work as a professor.
Addition (2009-0192) (6500 items; 9.0 lin. ft.; dated 1970s-2009) includes materials from McFadden's courses and programs at Appalachian State's Interdisciplinary Studies program, including women's studies courses. Also includes materials from her Fulbrights to Finland and Austria, conference schedules, Southeastern Women's Studies Association files, student evaluations, drafts of Golden Cables of Sympathy, and McFadden's historical women postcard collection.
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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.
- McFadden, Margaret.
- Southeastern Women's Studies Association.
- Interdisciplinary approach in education.
- Women's studies.
- Postcards
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Related Material
This collection is closely related to the McFadden Family Papers, also contained in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. The McFadden Family Papers include personal correspondence, printed materials, photographs, diaries, and other ephemera centering around Margaret McFadden's parents, William and Glenora McFadden. Also included in the McFadden Family Papers are some of Margaret's classwork from her childhood and high school years, as well as correspondence from her to her parents in the 1970s.
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Preliminary Description of Collection
Margaret McFadden Papers (2003-0264), 1970s-2003
44 Boxes
Collection (2003-0264) (14,000 items, 27 lin. ft.; dated [1970s]-2003 and n.d.) comprises McFadden's professional papers. Includes published materials, conference files, materials related to the Southeastern Women's Studies Association (of which she is a founding member), correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and subject files. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Addition (2005-0003), 1979-1999 and no date
(9 Boxes)
Addition (2005-0003) (2585 items, 5.0 lin. ft.; dated 1979-1999 and n.d.) comprises primarily research files, book notes, correspondence with other scholars and with her publisher, and drafts related to McFadden's book Golden Cables of Sympathy (1999). Also includes materials and notes from conferences she attended.
Addition (2005-0089), 1974-2005
(7 Boxes)
Addition (2005-0089) (2683 items, 4.2 lin. ft.; dated 1974-2005) comprises correspondence, subject files, reviews, research notes, and photographs related to Golden Cables of Sympathy; brochures, programs, and notes from conferences; academic files related to Ph.D students who were part of the Projects Demonstrating Excellence at the Union Institute Graduate School in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995-2002.
Addition (2006-0001), 1989-1998
(3 Boxes)
Addition (2006-0001) (1125 items, 1.8 lin. ft.; dated 1989-1998) consists of correspondence, subject files, reviews, research notes, and academic files McFadden maintained during her professorship. There are also brochures, programs, and notes from conferences, including a paper delivered at the 8th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 8-10 June 1990. There are also newsletters; files McFadden kept while a Fulbright professor in Finland, 1991-1992; and ephemera.
Addition (2007-0124), 1982-1994
(2 Boxes)
Addition (2007-0124) (750 items; 1.2 lin. ft. ; dated 1982-1994) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials relating to women's studies books and articles by McFadden. Also included are grant proposals, recommendations, and book catalogs.
Box 1
Drafts of articles and research notes
"Boston Teenagers Debate the Woman Question,"
1987
Thinking Woman
Grants and fellowships
NEH grant, 1987
Correspondence, 1984-1986
Other grant files
Recommendation for Dana Greene
Syllabus - Women and Fiction
Box 2
Papers related to
"All Over the Map"
Drafts of articles by other authors
NORA manuscripts
Evaluation of Dr. Elizabeth Bartlett
Addition (2007-0202), 1975-2007
(5 Boxes)
Addition (2007-0202) (2000 items; 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1975-2007) includes research materials, notes, and academic files from McFadden's work as a professor.
Box 1
Course materials
Films from Fiction
Women and Film
Box 2
Course materials, 1980s
Women and Film
Planning
Evaluations
Student papers
Film lists
Box 3
Course materials, 1970s
Conference materials, 2000s
Box 4
Course materials, 1970s-2005
Interdisciplinary Studies
Women's Studies
Box 5
Course materials
Addition (2009-0192), 1970s-2009
(6 boxes)
Addition (2009-0192) (6500 items; 9.0 lin. ft.; dated 1970s-2009) includes materials from McFadden's courses and programs at Appalachian State's Interdisciplinary Studies program, including women's studies courses. Also includes materials from her Fulbrights to Finland and Austria, conference schedules, Southeastern Women's Studies Association (SEWSA) files, student evaluations, drafts of Golden Cables of Sympathy, and McFadden's historical women postcard collection.
Box 1
Newspapers about the ASU women's studies department, March 2009
SEWSA travel grants, 2007
NWSAJ budget, 2003
NWSA Journal national board meeting, January 2007
NWSA Journal annual report notes, 1999
SEWSA, 2005
SEWSA proposals, 2009
Fulbright reference, 2005
May trip to Finland and Hungary, 2006
100 Scholars research award, 2006
ASU miscellaneous
Duke colloquium, August 2005
Feminist Time/Nation Time, 2005
Sally Wagner and Matilda Gage, 2008
IFRWH, 2005
NWSA Feminist pedagogy
Steinem lunch, 2008
Women's Center brown bag, November 2007
International Lawrence Durrell Society, 2007
UNC Asheville, March 2007
Duke Symposium, October 2007
Nordic Advisory Committee Meeting, October 2005
Jeannette Stokes, 2006
Graduate Faculty Status application, 2006
Fairfield, Illinois, 2007
Xerox for NY
URC Grant-Schwimmer, etc., 2005-2006
Dr. Nickless, UNC Asheville lecture, 2005
Claudia Koonz, 2005
SEWSA-Valdosta/Schwimmer, 2006
American Historical Review-Blackwell review, 2005
CLGH Prize, 2004-2005
PTR miscellaneous articles and drafts, news, ASU Women's Studies department, 2005-2007
100 Scholars appointment, 2007
Dr. C.A. Cranston, March 2006
Sheela-na-gig, March 2006
Austria Fulbright talk and panel, 2005-2006
Yale blog conference, October 2005
Bingham Center Symposium, 2005
"Gender, War, and Nation in 20th Century Europe"
, UNC, 2006
Post-tenure review, Spring 2005 (2 folders)
World Congress on Matriarchal Studies, 2005
ASU correspondence, 2008
Women's Studies Symposium, Perdue, 2007
Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation
Herstory! ASU Women's Leadership Conference, March 2008
Duke
"Gender and Ethnic Conflict"
Symposium, 2005
Miscellaneous Women's Studies brochures
Berkshire Conference, 2008
Box 2
Salem Press, Masterplots/Christian Literature, 2006
ASU Humanities Series, 2006-2007
Loose pages re: Women's Studies
Women's Caucus, ASU, 1970s
Feminist Theory workshop, 1989
Feminist Theory classication paper, 1980s
ILA/Emory, 2003
Women as a Minority Group
Androgyny, SEWSA conference, 1980
Jokes and notes
Doris Lessing, 1970s
Articles, 1970s
Naturewriting, 1970s
Supplemental materials, including ASU course syllabi and readings, 1970s
Student Course Evaluations, 1970s-1990s (32 envelopes)
Watauga College, April 1978
Watauga team teaching workshop, 1978
Herstory evaluations
Box 3
Ph.D. diploma from Emory
Factory Second Food and Tevre Madre art
Food films course, 2003
On my door and correspondence, 2003
Austrian correspondence and clippings, 2004
NWSAJ and speaker flyers
"Reel Food"
paper, revisions and final, April 2003
Torino, Slow Food, Hidden Kitchens, etc.
Food films for
"Reel Food"
Taxco, Mexico trip, October 2000
SLOW Food, including Sicily
Not for Ourselves Alone review, 1998
"Boston Teenagers"
manuscript, 1990
Stanton/Anthony film by Ken Burns, 1999
NC Women's History Symposium, 1990
The American Woman: Herstory off-campus presentations, 1984
G. Lerner:
"American Women, 1870-Present"
and
"Feminist Theory"
Women and the Law course, Fall 1986
"Black Women's Voices: Autobiography,"
UCCS, 1974
Wollstonecraft
Madrid panel, July 2008
Qualitative Research folder
Grand Canyon, 2007
Color Purple review by Margaret McFadden
Pictures and posters, 2007
Brown Girl Brownstones crossword puzzle
Women's Studies-early, 1985-1995
Personal letters and cards, early 1980s-1990s
Angelou's All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes reviews and notes
Women's Studies course materials
Margaret of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Iceland women
"No Man's Land,"
sexchanges, vol. 21, review
UNC Press:
"Women in Medieval Scandinavia"
H. Taylor Mill biography
Rape in Bosnia, 1993
Eastern Europe scholars, 1990-1991
Box 4
Miscellaneous loose papers
Pictures, etc.
Anna Wheeler paper for Hypatia, 1989 (3 folders)
Gradebook
Louis and Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, 2008
Fulbright orientation, 2006
Notes and writings
ASU graduate teaching, 1980s
NY Loft application, 1986
Harriet Silius's Festskrift, January 2008
SEWSA, Writing Women's Lives panel, 2008
ASU Humanities programs, 2007
Women's Studies Symposium, Perdue, November 2007
General Honors Director application, 1989
19th century women's preachers, March 2006
Fairfield
"boarders,"
2007
Protest letter, April 2006
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, 2007-2008
IFRWH Bulgaria, August 2007
SEWSA roundtable paper, 2005
Union Graduate School, Theresa Burris
Fulbright in Austria materials, 2002-2003
Course evaluations, 1996-1999
UNC EP October 2007
NWSA-NWSAJ mess, Spring 2009
Ida Blam paper, women's history
Kath K's poetry
"Unequal sisters"
Finland lectures
Klagenfurt correspondence, 2004
FJN, 2005
Curriculum vitae, 2004
Overview lecture on
"Feminist Classics"
"From Voting Rights to Social Revolution"
lecture
Alpha Chi speech, April 2003
Box 5
Women Artists of Western NC, 2006
Continuities and Discontinuities: Women's Movement International Conference, 2004
UNC Adventures in Ideas, 2007
International Federation for Research in Women's History, August 2007
Women's Studies conferences and programs, 1990s-2000s (2 folders)
NWSA materials, 1990s-2000s
SSHRC Canada grant, 2005
Notes for introduction of Gloria Steinem, 2008
Women's Worlds (Korea) conference, 2005 (3 folders)
Women's Studies
"to sort and do"
miscellaneous
Interdisciplinary Studies colloquium, 1960s
Recommendations, 1998s
Whitney Foundation, 1981
"Shadow Narrative,"
SEWHA, October 2006
ASU (Arizona) application, 1990-1991
Arizona State and San Francisco State application, 1990
Graduate Faculty
Fulbright in Finland, 1990
Loose pages of women's studies materials
Box 6
Golden Cables of Sympathy, master and editorial drafts (4 folders)
Sherman Paul's Nature Writing invitation, 1989
ASU Interdisciplinary Studies reports, 1980s
Includes reports to the chancellor, with course syllabi, self-evaluations, questionnaires, newsletters, all relating to Women's Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Postcard collection
