Inventory of the Sarah Wood Zine Collection, 1990s
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Wood, Sarah (collector)
Title
Sarah Wood Zine Collection, 1990s
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
2.0 Linear Feet
150 Items
Abstract
150 Items
Sarah Wood was the co-owner of GERLL Press, a zine distro based in Chicago, Ill., in the early to mid-1990s.
The collection consists of about 150 zines self-published by women and girls, largely in the United States. Subjects include feminism, the riot grrrl movement, body image and consciousness, women’s health, women athletes, sexual abuse, television and film, poetry and short stories, rock music and punk music, violence against women, sexual identity, homosexuality, and bisexuality. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture.
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Administrative Information
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Copyright Notice
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], Sarah Wood Zine Collection, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Sarah Wood Zine Collection was received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 2003.
Processing Information
Processed by Amy Leigh Hagardorn and Amy McDonald
Completed July 2006
Encoded by Amy McDonald, February 2008
Accession 2003-0005 is described in this finding aid.
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
Sarah Wood, along with her friend Kelly Curry, founded and owned GERLL (Girls Empowered Resisting Labels and Limits) Press, a zine distro based in Chicago, Ill., in the early to mid-1990s.
[top]Collection Overview
The collection consists of about 150 zines self-published by women and girls, largely in the United States. Many of these zines come directly from the GERLL Press inventory, or were submitted to Wood and Curry by their authors to be considered for sale through the distro. Subjects include feminism, the riot grrrl movement, body image and consciousness, women’s health, women athletes, sexual abuse, television and film, poetry and short stories, rock music and punk music, violence against women, sexual identity, homosexuality, and bisexuality. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture.
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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.
- Wood, Sarah, collector
- Feminism -- United States
- Fanzines
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Women -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Self-publishing
- Underground press publications -- United States
- Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States
- Homosexuality
- Sexual orientation
- Women poets
- Abused women
- Women athletes -- United States
- Women’s periodicals, American
- Women--United States -- Social conditions
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States
- Women -- Psychology
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
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Detailed Description of Collection
Sarah Wood Zine Collection, 1990s
4 Boxes
Box 1
20 Bus
A Voila
Action Girl Guide
Action Girl Newsletter
Amelia Jane
Another Lo-Fi Xtravaganza
April Fools' Day
Art Babe
Backchat
Bi-Girl World
Bloody Knuckles Club
Boy Food
Bust
Busy Bea's Bush
Butterfly
Cake Walk
Cherub
Cheshire
The Completion of Circles
Conscious Clit
Creme Brulee
Cross My Heart
Dead Jackie Susann Quarterly
Design #816
Discharge
Don't Dis Dolly
Doris
Exile
Fantastic Fanzine
Femme Flicke
Fern
Fix Me
Flatter!
The Flying Bitch Sisters Present: 1,267,984 Blender Recipies [sic]
Function
Funkapotamus
Geek Girl
Box 2
Get Off My Property
Gift Idea
Girl Fiend
Girljock
Girlwonder / Slam Book for the Midwest Girl Fest
Gogglebox
Graham Cracker Cereal
Granny
Grope
Growing Pains
Gunk
Hamster Man
Hands Off
Healing Stone
Hemlock
How to Buy Second Hand Guitars and Amps Without Getting Ripped Off (By Dumb Boys)
Hunger Strike
Hungry Girl
I Heart Me
I Am Intimate with Anger
The I Hate Brenda Newsletter
I Know What You Did to Me
I'll Make a Deal with You
Impossible Schizoid Girl
I'm a Dimpled Lunatic
I'm So Fucking Beautiful
It's a Grrrl
I've Got Angels in My Head
Jigsaw
The folder contains a handwritten letter from Tobi Vail, the author of Jigsaw and the drummer for the band Bikini Kill.
Jungle Gym
Just Like a Girl
Just One Match
Box 3
Lardass
Letters to Michelle
Liar
Libel / Spirals Upwards
Looking Straight Down
Love Is . . . Love Isn't
Mad Planet
Mad Woman
Mama Girl
Marika
Men Speaking Out on Men and Sexism
Mons of Venus
Ms. America
Mudflap
My Last Nerve
Nerd Girl
No Longer Silent
Ooompa! Ooompa!
Oppression Song
Pacifier
Pirate Radio Kills the Ruling Class Stars
Please Don't Hit Beneath the Belt
Power Candy
Pretty in Peach
Queenie
Rage Against
Resist Psychic Death!
Riot Gear
Riotemptresses
Riot Grrrl Press Catalogue
Rollerderby
Ruckus
Runt
Sacred Places
Safety Pin
Satanic Toasters
Saturnine's Smile
Secret Weapon
Box 4
Septophilia Records
Six Degrees of Separation
Sky Flying By
Smart Like Eve
Songs of a Dead Boy
Sourpuss
Sparkly Kitty Stickers
Splatterspleen
Square One
Stifled
Super Girl
Sweetarts Fanzine
Taking No for an Answer
Taylor's Daughter
Tease
That Girl
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Totally Hair Barbie
Turtle Wax
Two Weeks
Under Control
[Untitled]
Up Yours
Velvet Grass
War
The Weeds
What is Riot Grrrl?
What You Can Learn from a Glamour Girl
Wiglet
Wild Honey Pie
Wives Tales
Written on a Body
Yours Truly Comix
