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Florence Howe papers (MS.2011.003)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Administrative, 1968 - 2002

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 City University of New York: Professional Staff Congress Recognition Award
 2002
Box 1, Folder 2 City University of New York: teaching materials for "Women Poets" course
 1993
Box 1, Folder 3 College of Notre Dame of Maryland: Conference on Woman pamphlet
 1971
Box 1, Folder 4 Feminist Press : 30th Anniversary Gala correspondence
 1985 - 2000
Box 1, Folder 5 Feminist Press : 30th Anniversary Gala fundraising committee meeting minutes
 1997 - 2000
Box 1, Folder 6 Feminist Press : 30th Anniversary Gala honoree biographies
 2000
Box 1, Folder 7 Feminist Press : 30th Anniversary Gala planning materials
 2000
Box 1, Folder 8 Feminist Press : 30th Anniversary Gala pledges
 2000
Box 1, Folder 9 Feminist Press : 30th Anniversary Gala receipts
 2000
Box 1, Folder 10 Feminist Press : 30th Anniversary Gala response cards, menus, and seating charts
 2000
Box 1, Folder 11 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "1970 convention correspondence"
 1970
Box 1, Folder 12 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "1970 convention literature table"
 1970
Box 1, Folder 13 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "1970 convention news and press releases"
 1970
Box 1, Folder 14 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "1970 convention papers" (1 of 2)
 1970
Box 1, Folder 15 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "1970 convention papers" (2 of 2)
 1970
Box 1, Folder 16 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "1970 convention work lists and daycare correspondence"
 1970
Box 1, Folder 17 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "Affirmative Action Plan"
 1971
Box 1, Folder 18 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "bibliographies"
 1968
Box 1, Folder 19 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "business meeting materials"
 1970
Box 1, Folder 20 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "complaints"
 1970 - 1971
Box 1, Folder 21 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "Conference on College Composition and Communication" materials
 1971
Box 1, Folder 22 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: correspondence re: "nepotism"
 1970 - 1971
Box 1, Folder 23 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "Directory of Women Scholars in the Modern Languages"
 1973
Box 1, Folder 24 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "hate mail"
 1970 - 1971
Box 1, Folder 25 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "literature list"
 circa 1970
Box 1, Folder 26 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: members' letters of resignation
 1970 - 1971
Box 1, Folder 27 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: newsletter materials
 1971
Box 1, Folder 28 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: newsletters and booklets
 1971 - 1973
Box 1, Folder 29 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "Profession" journal
 1995
Box 1, Folder 30 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "questionnaires"
 circa 1970
Box 1, Folder 31 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "report"
 1969
Box 1, Folder 32 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "resolutions"
 circa 1970
Box 1, Folder 33 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "statistics"
 1970
Box 1, Folder 34 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: study materials from various institutions (1 of 3)
 1969 - 1970
Box 1, Folder 35 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: study materials from various institutions (2 of 3)
 1969 - 1970
Box 1, Folder 36 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: study materials from various institutions (3 of 3)
 1969 - 1970
Box 1, Folder 37 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study I correspondence"
 1970
Box 2, Folder 1 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study I English department surveys"
 1969 - 1970
Box 2, Folder 2 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study I questionnaire"
 1970
Box 2, Folder 3 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study I report" (1 of 2)
 circa 1970
Box 2, Folder 4 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study I report" (2 of 2)
 circa 1970
Box 2, Folder 5 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study I report, final"
 circa 1970
Box 2, Folder 6 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study I reports"
 circa 1970
Box 2, Folder 7 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study II case studies"
 1970
Box 2, Folder 8 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study II correspondence"
 1969 - 1970
Box 2, Folder 9 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "study III women in modern language departments"
 1976
Box 2, Folder 10 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "surveys of the work of other women's commissions" (1 of 3)
 1969 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 11 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "surveys of the work of other women's commissions" (2 of 3)
 1969 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 12 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "surveys of the work of other women's commissions" (3 of 3)
 1969 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 13 University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Writing and Society award and program
 2001

Series 2. Correspondence, 1969 - 1972

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 14 Correspondence A - C
 1969 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 15 Correspondence D - G
 1970 - 1972
Box 2, Folder 16 Correspondence H - J
 1970 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 17 Correspondence K - N
 1970 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 18 Correspondence N - R
 1969 - 1972
Box 2, Folder 19 Correspondence S - T
 1971 - 1972
Box 2, Folder 20 Correspondence V - Z
 1970 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 21 Correspondence re: complaints
 1970 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 22 Correspondence re: "discrimination"
 1970 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 23 Correspondence re: Hampshire College
 1970
Box 2, Folder 24 Correspondence re: "hiring and discrimination"
 1970 - 1971
Box 2, Folder 25 Correspondence re: "The Joint Task Force on Sexism in Education"
 1971 - 1972
Box 2, Folder 26 Correspondence re: "publicity"
 1971
Box 2, Folder 27 Correspondence with publishers
 1971

Series 3. Writings and Related, 1972 - 2003

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 28 Address (keynote): "Breaking the Disciplines:" bound copy in "The Proceedings of the 4th Annual GLCA Women's Studies Conference"
 1978
Box 2, Folder 29 Article: "Feminism and Women's Studies Survival in the Seventies:" bound copy in "Report on the West Coast Women's Studies Conference"
 1973
Box 2, Folder 30 Article: "Report on Women in the Profession:" offprint
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 31 Article: "Schools and Political Survival:" bound copy in "Education for Survival: Final Report"
 1973
Box 2, Folder 32 Article: "Varieties of Denial:" bound copy in "Non-Sexist Education for Survival"
 1973
Box 2, Folder 33 Book: untitled re: "memorial tribute for Elaine Hedges;" includes correspondence and handwritten notes
 1997
Box 3, Folder 1 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: correspondence, 2001-2002
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2001 - 2002
Box 3, Folder 2 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: correspondence, 2002 (1 of 2)
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2002
Box 3, Folder 3 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: correspondence, 2002 (2 of 2)
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2002
Box 3, Folder 4 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: editorial meeting materials
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2001
Box 3, Folder 5 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: readers' reports and related correspondence
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2001 - 2002
Box 3, Folder 6 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: typed annotated draft
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 7 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: typed annotated draft and related correspondence
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2002
Box 3, Folder 8 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: typed annotated draft endnotes
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2003
Box 3, Folder 9 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: typed annotated drafts
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 2001 - 2002
Box 3, Folder 10 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: typed draft
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 11 Book published by the Feminist Press: Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region: typed drafts
Contents Note: This title was neither authored nor edited by Howe
 1991 - 2000
Box 3, Folder 12 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author address labels
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 13 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author biographies
 1990 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 14 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author database permissions (1 of 5)
 1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 15 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author database permissions (2 of 5)
 1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 16 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author database permissions (3 of 5)
 1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 17 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author database permissions (4 of 5)
 1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 18 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author database permissions (5 of 5)
 1992 - 1993
Box 3, Folder 19 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: author fee lists
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 20 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: clippings and handwritten notes
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 21 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: correspondence, 1972-1973
 1972 - 1973
Box 3, Folder 22 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: correspondence, 1992-1994
 1992 - 1994
Box 3, Folder 23 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: permissions fees
 1992 - 1993
Box 4, Folder 1 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry (1 of 6)
 circa 1973-1992
Box 4, Folder 2 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry (2 of 6)
 circa 1973-1992
Box 4, Folder 3 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry (3 of 6)
 circa 1973-1992
Box 4, Folder 4 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry (4 of 6)
 circa 1973-1992
Box 4, Folder 5 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry (5 of 6)
 circa 1973-1992
Box 4, Folder 6 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry (6 of 6)
 circa 1973-1992
Box 4, Folder 7 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry in numerical order for publishing (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 8 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry in numerical order for publishing (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 9 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry not used in final book (1 of 7)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 10 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry not used in final book (2 of 7)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 11 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry not used in final book (3 of 7)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 12 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry not used in final book (4 of 7)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 13 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry not used in final book (5 of 7)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 14 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry not used in final book (6 of 7)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 15 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: photocopied poetry not used in final book (7 of 7)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 16 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: typed annotated draft (1 of 3)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 17 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: typed annotated draft (2 of 3)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 18 Edited book: No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women: typed annotated draft (3 of 3)
 n.d.

Series 4. Subject Files, 1970 - 1978

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 19 Bates, Katharine Lee: photocopied archival materials
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 20 Coman, Katharine: photocopied archival materials
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 21 Scudder, Vida: photocopied archival materials
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 22 Cornell University: Women's Festival flyers
 circa 1970
Box 4, Folder 23 Kansas State Agricultural College; includes school newspaper and magazine and handwritten notes
 1973 - 1975
Box 4, Folder 24 Kansas State Agricultural College: photocopied 1874 handbook
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 25 Kansas State Agricultural College: photocopied catalog cards re: curriculum
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 26 Kansas State Agricultural College: photocopied catalog cards re: dairying, hydene, courtship, and marriage
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 1 Kansas State Agricultural College: photocopied catalog cards re: faculty
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 2 Kansas State Agricultural College: photocopied catalog cards re: history, economics department, sociology department, and English department
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 3 Kansas State Agricultural College: photocopied catalog cards re: home economics
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 4 Kansas State Agricultural College: photocopy of "The First Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the KSAC with a Brief History of the Institution, 1863-1864"
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 5 Kansas State Agricultural College: photographs
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 6 Kansas State Teachers College: status of women study
 1970
Box 5, Folder 7 Pomona College: photocopied catalogs and handwritten notes
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 8 Saint Olaf College: reports by Ronald W. Farland and handwritten note
 1973
Box 5, Folder 9 Stanford University: "The Education of Women a Stanford" paper by Carol Clawson and handwritten notes
 1976
Box 5, Folder 10 State University of New York, Buffalo: women's rights at SUNY proclamation
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 11 State University of New York, New Paltz; includes school newspaper, newsletters, and memos
 1972
Box 5, Folder 12 State University of New York, Stony Brook: newsletter and correspondence
 1970 - 1973
Box 5, Folder 13 University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Faculty Women's Caucus meeting minutes and clipping
 1971
Box 5, Folder 14 University of Missouri, Columbia: "A Survey of Introductory Women's Studies Courses" by Mary-Jeanette Smythe, Sandy Nickel, and Anne Carman
 circa 1980
Box 5, Folder 15 University of Pittsburgh; includes pamphlets and newsletters re: women at Pittsburgh
 1970
Box 5, Folder 16 Various topics: handwritten note cards
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 17 Various topics: handwritten notes
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 18 Various topics: musical score, "Finding Our Strength"
 1978
Box 5, Folder 19 Wellesley College: handwritten notes (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 20 Wellesley College: handwritten notes (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 21 Wellesley College; includes school newspapers, information on women's studies courses, and handwritten notes
 1974 - 1975
Box 5, Folder 22 Wellesley College: photocopied materials and handwritten notes re: English literature
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 23 Wellesley College: photocopy of "The Effect of College life at Wellesley" by Charles H. Cook
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 24 "Women:" bibliographies
 circa 1970
Box 5, Folder 25 Women's education: readings
 n.d.

Series 5. Print Material, 1970 - 2000

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 26 Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, 1986
 1986
Box 5, Folder 27 Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, 1987
 1987
Box 5, Folder 28 Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, 1988
 1988
Box 5, Folder 29 Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, 1989-1990
 1989 - 1990
Box 5, Folder 30 Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, 1991-1992
 1991 - 1992
Box 5, Folder 31 Changing Education: A Journal of the American Federation of Teachers
 1974
Box 5, Folder 32 "Coeducation and Attainment" by Joan Hanafin and Dearbhal Ní Chárthaigh
 1993
Box 5, Folder 33 "Feminist Literary Criticism" by Catherine L. Blecki, Barbara C. Gelpi, Suzanne Juhasz, and Selma R. Burkom
 1974
Box 5, Folder 34 The Feminist Press 1986 Catalog
 1986
Box 5, Folder 35 Gender and/in European Research: The Fifth Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development, and Demonstration Activities, 1998-2002
 1999
Box 5, Folder 36 The Kansas Teacher
 April 1974
Box 5, Folder 37 Manushi: A Journal About Women and Society, no. 42-43
 1987
Box 5, Folder 38 Red Star: Open Letter of Welfare Women"
 April 1970
Box 5, Folder 39 We! Isis International Newsletter no. 30
 April 2003
Box 5, Folder 40 WISE Women's News: Newsletter of Women's International Studies Europe, 1996-1997
 1996 - 1997
Box 5, Folder 41 WISE Women's News: Newsletter of Women's International Studies Europe, 1998
 1998
Box 5, Folder 42 WISE Women's News: Newsletter of Women's International Studies Europe, 1999-2000
 1999 - 2000
Box 5, Folder 43 The Women's Coalition Journal
 Fall 1986
Box 5, Folder 44 Women's Equality: An Unfinished Agenda
 2000
Box 5, Folder 45 World Conference on Higher Education: Higher Education in the Twenty First Century, Vision and Action
 1998

Series 6. Ephemera

Container Description Date
Box 7, Item 1 Academic hood: blue and yellow velvet hood
 n.d.
Box 7, Item 2 Academic hood: purple and white velvet hood (1 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 7, Item 3 Academic hood: purple and white velvet hood (2 of 2)
 n.d.
Box 7, Item 4 Academic hood: red and blue velvet hood
 n.d.
Box 7, Item 5 Banner: hand-sewn for "Women's Studies International UN Mid-Decade Forum"
 July 1980

Series 7. Photographs, 1970 - 1989

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 46 Abzug, Bella: black and white photo
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 47 Alexander, Meena: color photo
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 48 Carlsson, Curt: black and white photos and correspondence
 1982
Box 5, Folder 49 Banquet: black and white photos
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 50 City University of New York Affiliation Party: black and white photographs and correspondence
 1989
Box 5, Folder 51 Conferences: black and white and color photos and list of conferences
 1976 - 1983
Box 5, Folder 52 Dedication of Kathy Kollwitz's "Women and Artist:" black and white photos
 1976
Box 5, Folder 53 Feminist Fiction and the Classroom: black and white photos
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 54 Feminist Press staff: color photos, negatives, and slides
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 55 Rainbows and Lollipops party: black and white photos
 1977
Box 5, Folder 56 Various authors: black and white photos and correspondence
 circa 1977-1985
Box 5, Folder 57 Various subjects: negatives and slides
 n.d.
Box 5, Folder 58 Various subjects: black and white photos
 1981
Box 5, Folder 59 Various subjects: color photos and slides
 1989
Box 6, Folder 1 Women International: black and white photos
 n.d.
Box 6, Folder 2 "Women reading a women's studies catalog:" negatives
 1977
Box 6, Folder 3 Women's Studies Quarterly: black and white photos and slides
 1970

Series 8. Electronic Records

Container Description Date
Box 6, Folder 4 Cassette tape: "conference/politics"
 2000
Box 6, Folder 4 Cassette tape: "politics conference"
 2000
Box 6, Folder 5 VHS tape: "politics session 1: sustaining energy"
 December 2, 2000
Box 6, Folder 6 VHS tape: "politics session 2: gains and losses"
 December 2, 2000
Box 6, Folder 7 VHS tape: "politics session 3"
 December 2, 2000