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mcfaddenmarg Preliminary Inventory of the Margaret McFadden Papers, 1970-2009 Processed by: Meghan Lyon; machine-readable finding aid created by: Meghan Lyon David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

Aleph Number: 003259750

Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: January 2009Processed by Meghan Lyon, January 2009; Finding Aid encoded by Meghan Lyon, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, January 2009 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and our local Style Guide Preliminary Inventory of the Margaret McFadden Papers, 1970-2009 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University McFadden, Margaret Margaret McFadden Papers, 1970-2009 Material in English 51.2 Linear Feet 29,893 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. 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. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Margaret McFadden Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Provenance

The Margaret McFadden Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript 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.

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.

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.

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.

Contents of Collection Margaret McFadden Papers (2003-0264), 1970s-2003 44 Boxes

Addition (2005-0003), 1979-1999 and no date (9 Boxes)

Addition (2005-0089), 1974-2005 (7 Boxes)

Addition (2006-0001), 1989-1998 (3 Boxes)

Addition (2007-0124), 1982-1994 (2 Boxes)

1Drafts 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 2Papers 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.

1Course materials Films from Fiction Women and Film 2Course materials, 1980s Women and Film Planning Evaluations Student papers Film lists 3Course materials, 1970s Conference materials, 2000s 4Course materials, 1970s-2005 Interdisciplinary Studies Women's Studies 5Course 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.

1Newspapers 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 2Salem 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 3Ph.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 4Miscellaneous 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 5Women 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 6Golden 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