Photo archive of 9 silver gelatin press photos related to the legal struggle for reproductive freedom and abortion rights. 1940-1995. Images measure between 7" x 9" to 8" x 10" in. This archive tells the story of half a century's struggle for women's reproductive rights. The police raids of medical.....
John Burns. Burns Principles of Midwifery Including the Diseases of Women and Children. I. Riley for W.W Buchanan: New York, 1810. Measures 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 484 pages. Revised and enlarged by the author with notes. Original brown calf boards. Book includes lengthy section on methods of abortion and treatment.....
2 pamphlets on New York State's 1970 decriminalization of abortion. Includes 4 page pamphlet analyzing New York State’s 1970 legalization of abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy. Measures 8.5 x 11. Titled “Abortion Legislation in New York State: What Really Hppened, and What Can Be Learned From It.”.....
"On the Education of Women. A Paper Read by Mrs. William Grey, at the Meeting of the Society of Arts." William Ridgeway: London, 1871. Pamphlet. 64 pages. 5.5" x 8" inches. Maria Georgina Grey was a British writer and women's education advocate. In this paper she writes "The subject I......
Small archive of 4 typed article drafts on the subject of Women’s Liberation as submitted to various publications. White, yellow and green paper respectively measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. 8 pages. Subjects include “Male Chauvinism Attitudes and Practices (but surely none of us….?” with illustration of naked man covering himself.....
[African American] Small Photo archive of 6 sepia-toned Kodak prints of African American women posing beside the foundation of a small building. 1952. Measure 5" x 3.5" inches. Photos show 4 subjects alone or, in one image, 2 in a pair, standing in an open field with trees lining the.....
The Abortionist. Dr. X as told to Lucy Freeman. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1962. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 216 pages. Original blue dust jacket with the title. Gray cloth boards. Published 11 years before the passage of Roe v Wade which would legalize abortion until overturned.....
The Abortionist. Dr. X as told to Lucy Freeman. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1962. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 216 pages. Original blue dust jacket with the title, shocking for its time, repeated in bold script from top to bottom. Gray cloth boards. Published 11 years before.....
Letter addressed to the Majority Leader of the Upper House of the New York State Legislature requesting a repeal of the law against contraceptive advertising. 1969. Printed on onionskin and signed in blue pen “MB” for Mary Booth. 1 page typewritten. The 1873 Comstock Act was a federal law designed.....
Women’s Liberation Campaign flyer entreating voters to support Feminist socialist politicians. , C.1970. Measures 8.5 x 11 inches. 1 page. Title bold in purple text block with purple printed text beneath. Reads in part, “The Democrats and Republicans running for office in New York this year are makin ga lot.....
Typewritten draft of the Bay Area Women’s Liberation “Group-In” Feminist Program. 1969. This draft outlines the conference including notes from the organizers. Measures 8.5 x 14 inches. The conference’s topic that year was “Function and Evolution of the Small Group” and this outline provides insight into the organizer’s plan for.....
Issue of Women Speak Out! 1970. Women’s Liberation Newspaper local to Clevaland, Ohio Feminists. Measures 8.5 x 14 inches. 6 pages. Title in blue print with illustration of encircled dove. Paper highlights the efforts of a small group of women part of a network of similar communities within the broader.....
The Second Wave, A Magazine of the New Feminism. Volume 2 Number 2. 1972. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Attractive red cover with 9 tiles, 6 of them line drawings of various women's faces, the other 3 reading "Interview with 2 Vietnamese Women, Arab Women: The Struggle in Sudan, Poem by.....
Our Bodies Our Selves, A Course By And For Women, New Printing of Women and Their Bodies. Boston Women's Health Course Collective and New England Free Press: 1971. Fourth printing. 136 pages. 8.5" x 10.5" inches. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of three women marching, a sign.....
Scholarly article on the overlooked state of women in prison. “Women of the Convicted Class” by Rhetta Alexander. Center for Women’s Studies and Services Publications, 1971. Stapled with bright blue front and back soft covers, front cover with illustration of black snake coiled around the female gender symbol. Measures 8.5.....