Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

Rape, Racism and the White Womens Movement: An Answer to Susan Brownmiller Rape, Racism and the White Womens Movement: An Answer to Susan Brownmiller
Author: Allison EdwardsPublisher: Sojourner Truth OrganizationFormat: MonographCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
A critique of Against Our Will and the tendency it represents. Also, a call for a new form of womens movement with a theoritical and programatic approach that will help women build a base powerful enough to begin to change society in such a way as will some day end the oppression of women, including the crime of rape.
Arms and the Woman Arms and the Woman
Author: Jeanne CharlesPublisher: Bureau of Public SecretsDate: 6/1975Volume Number: June Format: PamphletCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Short essay on revolutionary women. Originally entitled La critique ad mulierem, from the Chronique des Secrets Publics (Vol. 1 June 1975). Translated by Ken Knabb.
A Woman without a Country A Woman without a Country
Author: Emma GoldmanPublisher: Cienfuegos PressYear: 1979Format: MonographCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Short essay by famed anarchist Emma Goldman.
BLU Magazine BLU Magazine
Publisher: BLU MagazineYear: 2001Volume Number: Vol. 3-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
2nd annual womens issue: Women in Community; Til We Free; Hip Hop Mamas; Taking Control: African Women Publishers; Influences; What Feeds You: Asian Women Activists; Linda Evans; Bahamadia; Indigo Girls; Mystic; Chumbawamba; Zap Mama; Busi Mhlongo; Flo Brown; Majestic; more.
Primer on Filipino "Comfort Women": Questions and Answers Primer on Filipino "Comfort Women": Questions and Answers
Author: Task Force on Filipina Victims of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan SecretariatYear: 1992Format: PamphletCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Basic description of WWII "comfort women"; outline of demand to Japanese government on behalf of Filipina victims
Green Mountain Quarterly Green Mountain Quarterly
Publisher: Green Mountain QuarterlyYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 2 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Inside this Issue: The Woman Question by Eleanor Marx; Feminism, Working Women, and Social Democracy by Henriette Roland-Holst; Reviewing Feminist Revolution Today by Tiresias; The Epic Painter of Womens Emergence by Janet Sawyer; Fragment of a Manhattan Childhood by Anne Forer; Poetry by Virginia Scott"
Crossroads: Contemporary Political Analysis & Left Dialogue Crossroads: Contemporary Political Analysis & Left Dialogue
Publisher: CrossroadsYear: 1993Volume Number: No. 31 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
A Salute to Latinas in the Arts; Inside this Issue: "For an Art of Resistance"; Feminist Visions; "We're Still Invisible"; Mexican Themes in Dance, Film, Teatro; Artist Proocateur; Turning It Around; Cry from the Borderlands; Monica Palacios: "Latin Lezbo Comic".
Voices of Women: Poetry by and about Third World Women Voices of Women: Poetry by and about Third World Women
Publisher: WIRE CollectiveFormat: CompilationCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Part One: Private Whispers; Part Two: Public Shouts; Part Three: Listen to the Voices of Our Growing Discontent; Part Four: Sister, Unknown Sister, Your Voice Reaches Us
Women's Protection Program: Course Materials Women's Protection Program: Course Materials
Publisher: Marin Rape Crisis CenterDate: 2/1981Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: CompilationCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
The Womens Protection Program is a program of the Marin Rape Crisis Center. We teach in Marin, San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Sonoma counties.
Towards a Science of Women's Liberation: An Analysis from Cuba Towards a Science of Women's Liberation: An Analysis from Cuba
Authors: Isabel Larguia and John DumoulinPublisher: Casa de las AmericasYear: 1971Volume Number: March-JuneFormat: ArticleCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Reproduction. Article is an English translation of an article published in the Cuban periodical Casa de las Americas