Contains print media coverage, printed ephemera, essays, and correspondence regarding the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality, "The Scholar and the Feminist IX: Towards a Politics of Sexuality", and its controversial media coverage by radical feminist periodical Off Our Backs (oob). Content primarily pertains to the anti-pornography protesters and the conference session "Beyond the Gay/Straight Split: Do Sexual 'Roles' (Butch/Femme) Transcend Sexual Preference?". Includes a copy of Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, designed by Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, and Marybeth Nelson, which was intended for distribution to conference attendees but confiscated by Barnard College officials the day before in response to backlash from members of anti-pornography groups. Also includes a conference packet, a Coalition for a Feminist Sexuality and Against Sadomasochism protest flyer, a photocopy of Carole S. Vance and Ann Snitow's article "Towards a Conversation about Sex in Feminism: A Modest Proposal, and a copy of Cherríe Moraga's essay "Played Between White Hands".