Anne Fausto-Sterling Papers , 1960-1991

John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title:	Anne Fausto-Sterling papers
Date range:	1960-1991
Creator:	Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 1944-
Extent:	3.75 Linear feet
Abstract:	The papers document Brown University's establishment of an affirmative action program for faculty hiring and promotion under the conditions laid out in the consent decree. Although the consent decree was concerned primarily with sex discrimination, issues of minority recruitment and hiring are also covered in the records. This collection also provides information about the early work of the Committee on Women Faculty (1971-1977), the status of women faculty on campus, early courses in women's studies, and women and minorities in science at Brown.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number:	MS.1UF.F1

Scope & content

The folder titles are virtually all Anne Fausto-Sterling's. Each series is arranged in rough chronological order and includes correspondence, reports, proposals, articles, etc. The series containing committee records often also include related material collected by Fausto-Sterling, sometimes after her service on the committee ended.

The papers document Brown University's establishment of an affirmative action program for faculty hiring and promotion under the conditions laid out in the consent decree. Although the consent decree was concerned primarily with sex discrimination, issues of minority recruitment and hiring are also covered in the records. This collection also provides information about the early work of the Committee on Women Faculty (1971-1977), the status of women faculty on campus, early courses in women's studies, and women and minorities in science at Brown.

Access Points

Subject Organizations

• Brown University. Faculty.

Subject Topics

• Affirmative action programs
• Affirmative action programs in education
• College teachers--Rhode Island
• Science--Study and teaching (Higher)
• Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation
• Sex discrimination in employment--United States
• Student movements--Rhode Island
• Women's studies

Occupations

• College teachers

Document Types

• Annual reports
• Correspondence
• Legal documents
• Memorandums
• Reports

Subject Topics

• Education

Arrangement

This collection is organized into series:

• I. Committee on Women Faculty, 1971-1977
• II. Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, 1976-1988
• III. Class representatives, negotiations to discontinue, 1988-1991
• IV. Courses, 1960-1989
• V. Women's studies and the Pembroke Center, 1973-1988
• VI. Other committees and subject files, 1960-1986
• VII. Student protests, 1981-1985

Biographical note

Anne Sterling was born in Queens, New York on July 30th, 1944 to Philip and Dorothy Sterling. As a self-named "red-diaper baby," Fausto-Sterling became an activist early in life, primarily involved with peace, civil rights and women's liberation movements. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Wisconsin with a major in zoology. Following college graduation in 1965, Fausto-Sterling moved to Providence, Rhode Island to become a doctoral student in developmental genetics at Brown University. In 1972, she became Assistant Professor in Medical Science at Brown, primarily teaching courses in embryology. Six years later, Fausto-Sterling was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 1986, was granted full professorship. She is now Professor of Biology and Gender Studies and holds the Nancy Duke Lewis Chair.

Over the past thirty-seven years, Fausto-Sterling has developed numerous courses such as, "The Biology of Gender," "Vertebrate Embryology," "History of Embryology and Genetics in 20th Century US," and "Social Issues in Biology." In 2002-2003, Fausto-Sterling directed the Pembroke Center's research seminar on "Theories of Embodiment." Fausto-Sterling has been a visiting faculty member at many institutions, including Harvard University/Radcliffe College, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Amsterdam.

In 1985, Fausto-Sterling published Myths of Gender. The book drew great attention from both the academy and the mainstream media and a 2nd edition was released in 1992, translated into multiple languages. Fausto-Sterling's 1993 article, "The Five Sexes," published in Sciences again drew great amounts of attention and an Honorable Mention in The Best American Essays of 1994. Sexing the Body, released in 2000, won the Robert K. Melton Award from the American Sociological Association and the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology. Fausto-Sterling was the general editor of the series, "Race, Gender, and Science" from Indiana University Press and has published numerous book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews in both academic journals and mainstream publications.

Fausto-Sterling has served on the editorial boards of NWSA Journal, Signs, Journal of Homosexuality, Women's Review of Books, Perspectives on Biology and Medicine, and Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy. She has been an external reviewer for tenure committees around the country and a manuscript reviewer for both journals and book publishers. Fausto-Sterling has lectured and participated in conferences around the country and in Europe, as well as participated in a number of documentary films. She is a member of a number of associations such as, The Association for Women in Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Developmental Biology, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, and National Women's Studies Association.

Throughout her life, Fausto-Sterling has also been involved with many activist organizations around Rhode Island, the country, and the world - primarily around issues of peace, non-nuclear proliferation, women's rights, LGBT issues, and Latin American revolutionary movements and human rights.

Access & Use

Access to the collection:	Portions of the collection are restricted. Many folders in Series II contain sensitive material and will be closed for five or ten years after the year in which the records were created, as noted in the inventory. Many folders or parts of folders, particularly in Series II and III, are closed for a longer period because they contain personnel and tenure information about candidates and faculty members. Such folders will be closed until after the death of, or 90 years after the approximate birth of the individuals who are the subjects of those folders. Files closed for longer than ten years after their date of creation may become open but restricted after ten years with the permission of the University Archivist.
Use of the materials:	Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation:	Anne Fausto-Sterling papers, MS-1UF-F1, Brown University Archives.
Contact information:	John Hay Library , Special Collections Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-2146 email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Acquisition:	Anne Fausto-Sterling donated these papers to the Brown University Archives in early 1992. She donated a small addendum in February 1993.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff.
Encoding:	This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013 January 23
Descriptive rules:	Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor:	Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Additional Information

Inventory

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