This book, first published in 1986, analyses women's collections in institutional and private establishments in the United States. It focuses on the development of the collections as a result of feminist advances in activism and scholarship, and the need for collections to reflect the shift to a necessary woman-centredness in their holdings.
This book, first published in 1986, analyses women's collections in institutional and private establishments in the United States. It focuses on the development of collections as a result of feminist advances in activism and scholarship, and the need for collections to reflect the shift to a necessary woman-centredness in their holdings.
1. Foreword Lee Ash, General Editor
2. Introduction: Women's Collections
Today Suzanne Hildenbrand, Guest Editor
3. Library of Congress Resources for
the Study of Women Sarah Pritchard
4. Women for Peace: The Schwimmer-Lloyd
Collection of the New York Public Library Suzanne Hildenbrand, with Edyth
Wynner
5. Towards Black Feminism: The Creation of the Bethune Museum-Archives
Bettye Collier-Thomas
6. Exploring Women's Lives: Historical and Contemporary
Resources in the College Archives and the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith
College Mary-Elizabeth Murdock
7. Forty Years of Collecting on Women: The
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America,
Radcliffe College Patricia Miller King
8. The Women's Collection, The Texas
Women's University Library Elizabeth Snapp
9. Women's Studies Collections in
the University of Waterloo Library Susan Bellingham
10. From Tradition to
Trend: Small but Noteworthy Collections Suzanne Hildenbrand
11. Feminist
Library Services: The Women's Studies Librarian-at-Large, University of
Wisconsin System Susan E. Searing
12. Issues of Access to Information About
Women Ellen Gay Detlefsen
13. Best Reference Works for the Study of Minority
and Third World Women Beth Stafford
14. Representative Womens Collections
Suzanne Hildenbrand
Suzanne Hildenbrand
