Women's Educational Center (Cambridge, Mass.)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Boston Women's Pentagon Action (Cambridge, Mass.) collection
Collection
Identifier: M143
Overview
Boston Women's Pentagon Action was a local chapter of the Woman's Pentagon Action, a decentralized, national feminist organization focused on anti-military, environmental, and social activism. The Women's Pentagon Action was born out of a 1980 meeting of activist women in the Northeastern United States. Concerned with the threat of nuclear proliferation, the Women's Pentagon Action was formed to organize and lead protests advocating human rights and non-violence. In November of 1980, the...
Dates:
1980-1986
Coalition to Stop Institutional Violence records
Collection
Identifier: M027
Overview
The Coalition to Stop Institutional Violence was founded in Boston in 1975 in response to the proposed establishment of a "special unit for violent women" at Worcester State Hospital. Comprising ex-mental patients, mental health workers, and prisoner rights groups, the Coalition launched an extensive letter-writing campaign forcing the Department of Mental Health to hold public hearings on the need for the unit. Widespread opposition to the plan prevented the unit from ever opening. The...
Dates:
1972-1989; Majority of material found within 1976-1981
The Second Wave: A Magazine of the New Feminism records
Collection
Identifier: M019
Overview
The Second Wave: A Magazine for the New Feminism was produced by the Boston-based organization Female Liberation. The magazine was produced solely by women for a female readership. In February 1974, Female Liberation disbanded as a result of conflicts between members who belonged to the Socialist Workers Party and the majority who did not. The Second Wave was the only Female Liberation publication to continue after the parent organization dissolved. The Second Wave was based on ideological...
Dates:
1971-1984
Women's Educational Center (Cambridge, Mass.) records
Collection
Identifier: M047
Overview
In 1970, Bread and Roses, a group of Socialist-Feminist women in Boston, Massachusetts, began searching for a building to house a center for women. In March 1971, Bread and Roses seized an unoccupied building, owned by Harvard University, on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Bread and Roses held the building for ten days, offering free classes and child care before they were forced out. Sympathetic individuals donated $5,000, and in June 1971, Bread and Roses bought a house in Cambridge. The...
Dates:
1971-2002
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- Feminism -- Periodicals 1
- Feminist Therapy 1
- Feminist literary criticism 1
- Group psychotherapy 1
- Mentally ill prisoners -- Massachusetts 1
- Mentally ill women -- Massachusetts 1
- Prison violence -- Massachusetts 1
- Prisoners -- Civil rights -- Massachusetts 1
- Reformatories for women -- Massachusetts 1
- Self-help groups 1
- Social action 1
- Violence in women -- Massachusetts 1
- Women -- Periodicals 1
- Women -- Services for 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women in charitable work -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge 1
- Women in community organization -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge 1
- Women prisoners -- Civil rights -- Massachusetts 1
- Women volunteers in social service -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge 1
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