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Columbia Women’s Liberation, c. 1970.
A group of five documents produced by Columbia Women’s Liberation, a group founded in March 1969 on the Columbia University campus “devoted to raising consciousness of women’s oppression and to engaging in action to eliminate all forms of this oppression”.
The documents include a Calendar of Events for February 1970 at the (then) women-only Barnard College; one of them featured Kate Millett as a panellist for a Women’s Liberation Teach-In. Millett entered the graduate school programme for English and comparative literature at Columbia in 1968 (she was fired from her teaching position at Barnard for helping students organise during the 1968 protests) and was awarded her doctorate in March 1970, the dissertation for which became the basis of her book, “Sexual Politics”, published later in the same year.
The events calendar also included an early iteration of Feminist Theatre, offering workshops on Feminity & Sexuality, Alternatives to the Family, and Women’s Liberation & The Class Struggle, among other topics.
Other documents include discussions on the question of Day Care groups, a Fact Sheet on New York abortion laws, and a list of Columbia Women’s Lib operating committees (one of them run by the poet and essayist, Rachel Duplessis).
7 duplicated sheets, two of them stapled at top corner. Very Good.
