Interviews with former members of Chicago Women's Liberation Union
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Interviews with former members of Chicago Women's Liberation Union
- Dates
- 1985-1991
- Creator
- Strobel, Margaret, 1946-interviewer
- Creator
- Strobel, Margaret, 1946-
- Size
- 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
- Size
-
47 sound cassettes.
(Originals: Boxes 1 and 2).
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
Sound recordings, transcripts, and release forms of interviews conducted by Strobel with other former members of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, which was formed in 1969 as a radical, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, feminist organization. Usually interviewees tell how they became involved in the women's movement and in the CWLU. Specific topics relate to the CWLU, its founding, its activities, and its breakup; to the women's movement in general and to socialist feminism; to gender orientation, child care, women's health care, reproductive rights and abortion, and women's legal rights, economic and workplace rights, including efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A few contemporary publications on women's issues are included in the collection.
Scope and Content
Interviews were made while Margaret Strobel was a professor and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Conditions for Access
Nine of the interviews are closed for 30 years (until 2015-2019) at the request of the interviewees. In addition, some interviewees require that researchers obtain their permission before publishing quotes. Transcripts are available in the collection. However, to listen to a sound recording, it is necessary to use a copy sound recording, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available)
Conditions Governing Use
Contact the archives for more information on licensing and permissions for use and reproduction.
Preferred Citation
A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.
Custodial History
Gift of Margaret Strobel (1992.0361; 1993.0006).
Descriptive inventory available online.
Indexed Terms
- Strobel, Margaret, -- 1946-
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union -- Interviews
- Abortion -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century
- Discrimination in employment -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century
- Equal rights amendments -- United States
- Feminism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Feminism -- United States -- 20th century
- Lesbians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century -- Interviews
- New Left -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century
- Radicalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century
- Women -- Political activity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century
- Women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies and clubs -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Illinois -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Audiocassettes
- Interviews
- Transcripts