Jodi L. Glass papers (Ms.2008.022)

The Jodi L. Glass papers include materials that document the inner workings of feminist organizations and movements in Rhode Island and beyond. As the co-coordinator and organizer of the Rhode Island Feminist Chorus (RIFC) and Feminist Resources Unlimited (FRU), Glass maintained many of the groups' meeting agendas, minutes, and activity records. Included in these records are copies of The Third Wave, a newspaper produced by Glass through FRU, as well as audio CDs of the Rhode Island Feminist Chorus, t-shirts from various events and a poster of Rhode Island's Clothesline project. These documents and paraphernalia offer insight into the development of these groups, how these groups functioned and what types of activities they engaged in, spanning from the late 1970s to 2003.

In the mid-1980s, with the group, Women Against Violence Against Women, Glass and others created a slide presentation entitled, "A Look at Pain for Profit," to demonstrate the demeaning, violent, and sexualized way women were treated in the mainstream media. The slides from these presentations, along with in-depth notes on discussion points and questions are included in the collection.

As an activist in the anti-pornography movement, Glass saved many articles and essays about the pornography debates of the late 1970s and 1980s, including those by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. In Glass' work to legally make pornography a violation of womens' civil rights in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, she collected obscenity and civil rights legislation from around the country and generated ordinances for passage in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. These documents, along with a transcript from the Minneapolis Anti-pornography Ordinance hearings (with testimonies from Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, and Linda Boreman) are located in this collection. Also included are a few audio tape lectures about pornography, civil rights and legislation.

Documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, legislation and a film strip with audio discussing both the Equal Rights Amendment movement and the Nondiscriminatory Language movement were also collected by Glass. As a participant in passing equal rights legislation and nondiscriminatory language acts in Rhode Island, Glass also created and maintained some interesting documentation of the legislative process.