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Preliminary Inventory of the Julia Penelope Papers, ca. 1986-1999

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Descriptive Summary

Title
Julia Penelope Papers, ca. 1986-1999
Creator
Penelope, Julia
Extent
3 Linear Feet
1800 Items
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is restricted. Also, some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use.
In addition, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Julia Penelope Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
Gift, 2000
Processing Information
Processed by Ruth E. Bryan
Completed January 15, 2001
Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note

Julia Penelope is a feminist and linguist who ran Crossing Press and presently runs Wordwise.

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Collection Overview

This accession continues to document Julia Penelope's life as a lesbian and feminist activist and academic. Materials include correspondence and financial records; lecture notes and writings by Penelope dealing with subjects that include linguistics, lesbian communities, lesbian separatists, and coming out; subject files; and book reviews of works by Penelope and others. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. For information on earlier accessions, please consult the Duke Library online catalog.
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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.
List of Series in Collection
2000-0374
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Detailed Description of Collection

2000-0374

Some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection. Technical Services staff need to reformat newsprint; remove rusty fasteners. See notes in container list below.
Attention: Correspondence is restricted. Researchers must sign release form agreeing to not reveal personal information.
Box 1
Book reviews, press contracts, subject files, writings, grant proposals, financial materials, and correspondence
Book reviews
Out of the Class Closet
Style
Press Contracts
"Learning to Live with my Body"
"Passing Lesbians"
Xword Book
Anthology of Penelope's essays
For Lesbians Only
New Victoria Press
Finding the Lesbians
International Feminist Fiction
Speaking Freely
Women and Class Anthology
Anthology of Lesbian/Feminist Literary Criticism
Lesbian Passages
History of Lesbianism
Lesbian Culture Anthology
Subject Files
Milada Marsalka's Memoirs
Review Copies Address List
Copyright materials
Writing
"Lesbian Intervention"
Grant Proposals
NEH Research Grant
History of Lesbianism, Book
Subject Files
Notes, Language and the Gateways of Consciousness
Course Materials, Lesbian Novels (Washington University, Fall 1986)
Biography of Penelope
Materials for Appeal of Non-promotion, University of Nebraska
New Found Goddesses
Campfest, 1999
Income Tax
1992
1993
1994
Appointment Book 1994
Letters and Cards, 1993-1994
Lesbian Culture
Carytis Cardea
Loose Material
Miscellaneous photocopies from books and magazines
Notecards on Contributors to Out of the Class Closet
Attention: May be restricted: If correspondence, then users must sign release form.
Sojourner, 1996 January
Grade Book, University of Massachusetts, 1988
Picture, Two Young Women Reading a Book Together
Box 2
Subject files, writings, correspondence, book reviews, and feminist crossword puzzle book
Attention: Remove rusty fasteners.
Subject files
Hol 1: Antiquity
Kamasutra of Vaysayana
Near East Archeology
International Feminist Fiction Anthology (First Choice Stories)
[Verbal Self Defense]
Lesbian Language
Consent to Publish Agreements
Request for Permission to Reprint
Bookstores and Addresses (U.S)
Carol Barret's poem
Skanking
Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida
Johnson, Linnea, Analysis of Rosenwasser Letter
Sexual Practice/Textual Theory, Letter File
Class Discussion
My Horoscope
Dream and Disappointment
Marcia Gagliardi, Poems
Review Copies, Address List
Article on St. Louis, Notes
SEPS
Naiad Press Incorporation Papers
WomaNews Response
List of Lesbian Myths
Morgan Grey, "Purple Dragon Song"
Book on Lesbian Etiquette
Crossing Promo Flyers
SEP Workshop, Michigan '89
The Sexist Tradition: Words and Meaning
Speaking Freely: Teachers College Press Reprint (1992)
1998 Poetry Book
Blackwell, Hobby and White Proposal
Julia at Mountain Moving Coffee House
[Unidentified Manuscript]
Writings
On the Creation of Errors in Student Writing   (2 folders)
"Dyke Arrogance: Self-Righteousness, Trashing, and Cheap Thrills"
My Life, A Cartesian Model
"Language and Women's Oppression"
UPTIME Interview
Letter to Newspapers: Kate and Julia
Correspondence
Attention: Restricted. Users must sign release form.
Letters to be Answered   (2 folders)
Gearhart Correspondence (1989)
Personal Papers Correspondence and Contents Lists
Book Reviews
You Just Don't Understand, D. Tannen
Lesbian Culture
Sexual Practice/Textual Theory
Feminist Crossword Puzzle Book