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How did the Los Angeles Woman's Building Keep Feminism Alive, 1970-1991?

Documents selected and interpreted by Michelle Moravec. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2008)

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How did the Los Angeles Woman's Building Keep Feminism Alive, 1970-1991?, Documents selected and interpreted by Michelle Moravec. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2008).

Document 1: Judy Chicago, Sheila de Bretteville, and Arlene Raven, "Feminist Studio Workshop," ca. 1972

Document 2: Eyebolt necklace produced by members of the Feminist Studio Workshop, ca. 1973

Document 3A: Sheila de Bretteville hanging up her Pink broadsheet in the streets, ca. 1974

Document 3B: Sheila de Bretteville, Pink, ca. 1974

Document 3C: Detail from Sheila de Bretteville's Pink broadsheet, ca. 1974

Document 4: "March 20-30 Spring Conferences," Woman's Building flyer, ca. March 1975

Document 5: Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, Three Weeks in May, 8-29 May 1977

Document 6: Video production still from Leslie Labowitz, Record Companies Drag Their Feet, 30 August 1977

Document 7: "Lesbian Art Project," Woman's Building Calendar, September 1977

Document 8: Still from Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, In Mourning and In Rage, 13 December 1977

Document 9A: "Demographic Data", ca. 1978-1979

Document 9B: "Results of 1987 Membership Survey," 1987

Document 9C: "1991-92 Institutional Advancement Grant Application," ca. 1990

Document 10: Cheri Gaulke with Feminist Art Workers, This Ain't No Heavy Breathing, 23-26 March 1978

Document 11A: Woman's Building flyer advertising The Waitresses, Ready to Order?, 25 April-1 May 1978

Document 11B: Jaime Wildman as Wonder Waitress in Ready to Order?, 25 April-1 May 1978

Document 11C: Ann Gauldin as the Waitress Goddess Diana in Ready to Order, 25 April-1 May 1978

Document 11D: Denise Yarfitz, "The Great Goddess Diana," script from Ready to Order, 25 April-1 May 1978

Document 12: Feminist Art Workers postcard documenting Heaven or Hell, June 1979

Document 13: Money created as props for Bill of Rights, January 1980

Document 14: Poster advertising The Great American Lesbian Art Show, late April 1980

Document 15: Photograph of Suzanne Shelton and Maurine Renville, November 1980

Document 16: "Possible CR or Discussion Topics," ca. 1981

Document 17: "Cultural Heritage Questions," ca. 1981

Document 18A: Linda Nishio, Cheap Talk, 1980

Document 18B: Linda Nishio, Kikoemasa ka? (Can you hear me?), 1982

Document 18C: Linda Nishio, Ghost in the Machine, 1983

Document 18D: Excerpt from Linda Nishio, oral history with Michelle Moravec, 13 December 1992

Document 19A: Sisters of Survival performing Civil Defense: A Grave Mistake, ca. 1982

Document 19B: Sisters of Survival performing End of the Rainbow, Spring 1983

Document 20A: Postcard announcing Celebrating Our Heroines, 1985

Document 20B: Alice B. Toklas postcard for Celebrating Our Heroines, 1985

Document 20C: Zora Neale Hurston postcard for Celebrating Our Heroines, 1985

Document 20D: Lillian Gish postcard for Celebrating Our Heroines, 1985

Document 21A: Marilyn Gottschall to Dr. Sondra Hale, September 1986

Document 21B: Terry Wolverton to Marilyn Gottschall, 2 October 1986

Document 22A: Flyer advertising Work/Lives in the Graphic Arts: Linda Vallejo and Teresa Vasquez Woodward, 26 ...

Document 22B: Flyer advertising Black History Month, February 1981

Document 22C: Flyer advertising El Dia de los Muertos, ca. October 1990

Document 23: Adolfo V. Nodal to Kathy Clark, 17 June 1991

Document 24: "Letter from the Board of Directors," Woman's Building Newsletter, June/July 1991

Document 25: Excerpt from Cheri Gaulke, interview with Michelle Moravec, 6 August 1992

Document 26: Excerpt from Arlene Raven, interview with Cheri Gaulke, 19 September 1992

Document 27: Excerpt from Eloise Klein Healy, interview with Michelle Moravec, 2 October 1992

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