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
3 Documents Found
![Norman Solomon speech: Propaganda Today: The Manipulation of the American Media](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 028AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Author Norman Solomon speaks in Santa Cruz on "Propaganda Today: The Manipulation of the American Media". He co-authored "Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media"
![Ending men’s violence - pathways to a gender-just world -- “a feminist future for men”](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 067Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
bell hooks speaks at a conference on masculinity and feminism from 1990, where she references her fourth book, Yearning, as well as different depictions of masculinity in popular culture, especially television and film. Specific topics hooks addresses are that all women and men long to be loved and long to be free, socialization of black males versus white males, and how the media and popular culture perpetuates gender stereotypes. bell hooks concludes by saying the feminist transformation can heal men by deflecting focus on power and moving the focus to pain. Following her lecture are quick speeches and by Patricia Merchant, an Episcopal priest, John McDonald, founder of a Canadian AIDS support group, and Claude Franklin, a professor of sociology at Ohio State.
![Gender Issues in Russia, 1992](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 085BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Gene Peters, lesbian & gay activist who traveled to Russia in 1992 with Friendship Force to examine women's issues after the dissolution of the USSR. Peters talked extensively with female Russian professors and officials. She describes how many women were forced out of the workforce with the fall of communism, particularly in high status jobs. 70% of the Russian unemployed are women and fewer women have been elected to office since the fall of USSR. Peters describes the work of the Russian Federation of Women, a Soviet women's organization. She notes a lack of adequate medical supplies and dearth of contraceptives in Russia that renders an average of 8 abortions per woman. She describes the AIDS epidemic in the former USSR and current Russian AIDS campaigns. She also describes political reform initiatives for gay men & women who were brutally repressed under the Soviet regime, as well as the development of open gay life. She concludes with a general warning against Western media coverage of Russia, noting remarkable social retrogression and stratification in the wake of the fall of the USSR.
3 Documents Found