Gender and Sexuality
This collection features materials from a number of sources focusing on struggles revolving around gender and sexuality. These struggles are not separate from larger struggles for liberation but specifically incorporate unique voices and perspectives.
Subcollections
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Connexions
Connexions is the collective product of feminists of diverse nationalities and political perspectives committed to contributing to an international women\'s movement. -
Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
This collection contains materials focusing on radical feminist and lesbian politics. While diverse in medium and subject matter, this collection contextualizes women’s liberation highlighting issues of class, race, sexuality and imperialism. -
Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Raw materials from the documentary "The Forest for the Trees" which details the amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First! activist Judi Bari's name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist. -
Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Out of Control (OOC) was a self-supporting committee formed in 1987 to organize resistance to the Lexington Control Unit for women. -
Prisons - Women
This collection contains materials relating to the specific conditions, challenges and struggles facing women in prison. Topics are varied but materials include conference papers, informational materials, legal perspectives and audio recordings. -
Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This collection contains grassroots radio programming produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms. This programming primarily occurred during the 1980s and 1990s. -
Sterilization
This collection contains materials focusing on the sterilization of women and efforts to resist this practice. -
Violence Against Women
This collection contains materials focusing on violence against women. Specific topics covered include women who fight back against their abusers, rape, pornography, sexism and self-defense. -
Women Against Imperialism
Women Against Imperialism was a grassroots, feminist, anti-imperialist solidarity organization formed in San Francisco in 1981. Women Against Imperialism’s work primarily consisted of direct action organizing and political education activities.
Documents
2 Documents Found
![Footage from National Archives (II)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 112Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
"You Can't Get Away With It," a Universal short on the FBI, as referred to as 'G-men.'- positive spin with footage of J. Edgar Hoover. "Courtroom Demeanor and Testimony," by the Peace Officers' Association of the State of California, Inc. is an informative short on what title suggests. Footage of unknown case, courthouse packed. Unedited clips of J. Edgar Hoover giving an address to US public about internal threats.
![Footage from National Archives (III)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 113Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Footage of FBI Academy, FBI Firearms Ranges, and FBI training simulations. FBI presents "Document Examination," a short on what title suggests. Discover Magazine presents "Highlights from Conference on 'Terrorism in a Technological World,'" with footage of President Ronald Reagan's speech on US policy towards terrorists; Edwin Meese III, US Attorney General, on the necessity of an antiterrorism policy, Vice President George Bush on the language of the policy and terrorism as greatest threat to democracy. Army-Navy Screen Magazine presents "Battle of the United States," with J. Edgar Hoover.
2 Documents Found