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Status of Women Action Group, Victoria Branch fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR119
  • Archief
  • 1971 - 2005

Fonds consists of office logs, a daily record of events, 1972-1992; Downtown Women's Place Project file, 1992-1993; posters, 1987-1994; pamphlets, 1972, 1987, 1990; and several newsletters: Victoria Status of Women News, 1972-1990; Times Feminist, 1991-1995; Waves, 1978-79; and Women's Centre and Transition House News, 1974.

Status of Women Action Group, Victoria Branch

Debby Yaffe interview / Women's Studies collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR430
  • Collectie
  • 2009

Item consists of sound recordings of Debby Yaffe discussing her childhood, schooling and family life in California, including gendered family roles, expectations of femininity in the 1950s, university, marriage and life in Europe, her feminist consciousness raising experience in London, teaching high school in London, the differences between English and American societies, sex discrimination, radical feminist activities, restructuring of sexual relationships, life in Canada and involvement in the Women's movement in Victoria, Status of Women Action group, Everywoman's Books, disordered eating as feminist issue, work as a fitness instructor, abortion rights, impact on feminist awareness of the December 6, 1989 killings at École Polytechnique in Montréal, radical feminism, women's lives in Canada and England, life as a lesbian, resisting dominant domestic relationship constructs, teaching Women's Studies, feminist theory, and the Victoria Women's Movement Archives.

The Debby Yaffe interview was conducted by Joy Fisher as a research project in the course History 358A, "Women in Canada," taught by Dr. Lynne Marks, which covered histories of women in Canada from the era of New France to the present. Fisher"s resulting essay is entitled "Riding the Wave/ Watching the Wave: A Second Wave Feminist Talks about Gender Ideologies and her Life."

Yaffe, Debby

Barbara Ann Roberts fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR342
  • Archief
  • 1974-1999

Fonds consists of sixteen series: university employment; 1977-1996; university teaching, 1974-1988; grant applications, 1980-1995; publications, 1975-1997; conference papers, 1978-1991; presentations, 1980-1997; unpublished papers, 1975-1995; Gertrude Richardson research, 1985-1996; Leicester Peace Society research, 1992-1993; women's movement, 1983-1996; peace movement, 1986-1997; miscellaneous correspondence, 1979-1998; family correspondence, 1987-1997; illness and death, 1998; photographs, 1986-1993, and Canadian women peace activists oral history interviews, 1987-1989.

The university employment series includes curricula vitae, job applications, and self evaluation files which document Roberts employment history and her publications and committee work, etc. The university teaching series includes course outlines, take home exams, and student handouts which shed light on her approach to teaching. The grant applications and publications series together provide an overview of the range and direction of Roberts' research interests. While most of the series are based on record type, the Gertrude Richardson research and Leicester Peace Society Research series are arranged by subject and contain correspondence and grant applications; the Gertrude Richardson Research series also contains conference papers. The Women's movement and Peace movement series both contain correspondence, although some correspondence pertaining to them will be found in the miscellaneous and family correspondence series. While the miscellaneous and family correspondence series consist almost entirely of inward correspondence, both contain a few printouts of e-mail correspondence or letters from Roberts which shed light on her daily life and research projects. The Canadian Women Peace Activists series contains interviews about and with Canadian women who were peace activists before 1960.

Roberts, Barbara Ann, 1941-1998

Victoria Women's Movement Newsletter and Pamphlet collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR439
  • Collectie
  • 1950s-2000s (predominatley 1970s-1990s)

The newsletters and pamphlets are listed in alphabetical order by author. They date from the late 1950s to the early 2000s (predominantly 1970s to 1990s) and cover subjects such as women's rights and human rights, pornography, the peace movement, nuclear disarmament and arms control, sexual abuse, family violence, women's economic social conditions, lesbian issues, environmental protection, feminist theory and women's history.

Reed Erickson fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR417
  • Archief
  • ca. 1917-2003, predominant 1964-1992

The fonds reflects Reed Erickson's life-long interest and involvement in transgender studies and culture; investments; legal cases; health and drug-related complications; purchase and sale of numerous properties; and his personal relationships with his former wives, children, and members of staff.

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, medical records, contracts, handwritten notes, photographs, grant applications, publications produced by the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF) and related organizations, mailing lists, brochures, invoices and receipts, graphic materials, objects, cartographic materials, property plans, musical compositions and art, blueprints, property and lot plans, a videocassette, audio-cassettes, and other materials.

Correspondents include: Family members, employees (most notably Zelda Suplee), lawyers and attorneys (Alfred Keep, Michael Crane, Michael Pratter, Peter Barry), Dr. Harry Benjamin, Dorr Legg, Dr. John Lilly, Dr. John Money, President Ronald Reagan, Dr. Paul Walker, and Dr. Benjamin Weininger.

Erickson, Reed

Caroline White fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC621
  • Archief
  • 1983 - 2006

The fonds consists of Caroline White's research towards her M.A. thesis, "Re/defining gender and sex: educating for trans, transsexual, and intersex access and inclusion to sexual assault centres and transition houses" (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2002). Her research touches on discrimination, activism, violence, women-only spaces, gender theories, critical race theory, disability studies, and legal cases. Material includes research papers, articles, committee documents, zines, pamphlets, clippings, and correspondence.

White, Caroline