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woodsarah Inventory of the Sarah Wood Zine Collection, 1990s Processed by: Amy Leigh Hagardorn and Amy McDonald; machine-readable finding aid created by: Amy McDonald David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

Aleph Number: 003157746

Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: February 2008Processed by Amy Leigh Hagardorn and Amy McDonald; Finding Aid encoded by Amy McDonald, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, February 2008 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and our local Style Guide Inventory of the Sarah Wood Zine Collection, 1990s 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 Wood, Sarah (collector) Sarah Wood Zine Collection, 1990s Material in English 2.0 Linear Feet 150 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. 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. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Sarah Wood Zine Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University

Provenance

The Sarah Wood Zine Collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript 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.

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.

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.

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 Contents of Collection Sarah Wood Zine Collection, 1990s 4 Boxes 120 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 2Get 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 3Lardass 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 4Septophilia 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 Do It Yourself Abortion Riot Grrrl Flyers Take Back Your Life Towards an Anti-Racist Feminism What is Riot Grrrrl? Youth Greens Pamphlets Correspondence