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Box 1

 Container

Contains 20 Results:

Miscellaneous Party Announcements, 1984 - 1991

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes invitations to sex parties and advertising media for Rudolf's Top 40 Birthday parties; Versatile Fashions by Mistress Antoinette (also known as Jeanette Luther); Naughty 'N Nice Photographers and Fashion Models; Plato's Retreat Club; and Susie Bright's "How to Read a Dirty Movie". Also includes a copy of Betty Pages #6.

Dates: 1984 - 1991

Misc. Pro-Sex Movement, 1986, 1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Contains printed materials by the Ad Hoc Committee of Feminists for Free Expression, including a directory of the committee's "Speakers Network" and various letters and circulars regarding counteracting the Pornography Victim's Compensation Act. Also includes Newsday coverage on a staged mock arrest held outside the attorney general's commission on pornography.

Dates: 1986, 1992

Miscellaneous, 1987, 1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper article clippings and photocopies. Also includes correspondence between representatives of various publications, publishing companies, and public relations agencies. Of note is a 1987 circular from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTP regarding a march on Washington for Lesbian and Gay rights.

Dates: 1987, 1992

Barnard Scholar + Feminist on Sex Conference + Articles/Letters + Diary of Conference on Sexuality, 1982 - 1985

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1982 - 1985

Barbara O’Dair’s Articles (Incomplete), 1985 - 1990

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings and photocopies of newspapers articles by O'Dair and others. Of note is a September 9, 1986 cover of the Village Voice with O'Dair with the cover story on the Meese Commission.

Dates: 1985 - 1990

Various FACT and other Correspondence + Minutes, 1985 - 1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Contains various organizational documents relating to the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce (FACT). Includes a mission statement, a New York Native article on FACT, contact sheets, meeting minutes, and meeting agendas. Also includes correspondence from representatives of The Media Coalition, Inc. regarding the various anti-pornography legislative bills (attached), a Women's Action Coalition contact list, a packet with language and contact information for writing local congresspeople.

Dates: 1985 - 1992

Feminists for Free Expression, 1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Includes a press release announcing the Feminists for Free Expression "Speaker Network", a brochure on the organization, and a directory of speakers with headshot photographs and biographical sketches.

Dates: 1992

Caught Looking - Business, 1986 - 1993

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents Contains original and photocopied administrative records, financial records, and legal correspondence regarding Caught Looking, Inc. Includes records of incorporation, a shareholder certificate book, draft licensing agreements with Inland Books and Long River Books. Also includes correspondence between Nan D. Hunter, Barbara O’Dair and Beth Jaker, Hannah Alderfer, Marybeth Nelson, and Abby Tallmer, and Kate Ellis regarding the corporation and revisions to the book Caught Looking: Feminism,...
Dates: 1986 - 1993

Caught Looking - Contracts/Business, 1987 - 1991

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of licensing agreement between Caught Looking, Inc. and The Real Comet Press, as well all communications between Caught Looking board members, and legal representation, and Cathy Hillenbrand (The Real Comet Press) regarding licensing negotiations.

Dates: 1987 - 1991

Caught Looking - Proofs, 1982

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Publication proofs of the book Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography, & Censorship. Two cover page proofs have been relocated to mapcase 1.

Dates: 1982