Bowling Green State University, Women for Women records

Collection

Identifier: UA-0052

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Abstract

Documents created and collected by the Women for Women student group at Bowling Green State University.

Dates

Creation: 1971-1999

Extent

1 Cubic Feet (3 letter size archive boxes)

Creator

Bowling Green State University. Women for Women (Organization)

Scope and Contents

This collection mainly consists of subject folders organized alphabetically. Materials in the collection include correspondence, programs, fliers, newspaper clippings, newsletters, photographs, and other papers, reflecting the range of activities organized by the group in the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Many of the group’s events were about rape awareness and women’s issues on campus. The collection shows changes over time, including new terminology, like womanism. There are no materials directly from the founding of the organization or detailing when or how the organization ended.

Collection size: 3 letter-sized manuscript boxes (1 cubic foot)

Biographical / Historical

This woman's organization has been known at various times through its history as People for People, Women, Women for Women, Womyn for Womyn and Womyn 4 Womyn.

Begun in 1969 as People for People, and known as Women in the early 1970s, by 1975 the organization had evolved into a university fee supported student organization.

Its mission has been to raise awareness of women’s issues such as social inequality and rape awareness. The group’s activities included organizing Take Back the Night events and organizing symposiums. The group was open to students as well as non-students and in 1987 had a mailing list of over 500. The group appears to have become inactive sometime in the 2000s.

Conditions Governing Access

No known access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.