Future is Female Project Records, 1979-1990
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith College Northampton, MA
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Future is Female Project Records
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Future is Female Project
Biographical History for: Future is Female Project Records
Historical Note The Future Is Female Project was a research project undertaken by Annie Cheatham and Mary Clare Powell. In the early 1980s, Cheatham, who had worked as Director of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, and Powell, an artist, interviewed North American women for information about their efforts to create alternative structures for family life, arts, education, work, and politics. The resulting book, This Way Daybreak Comes: Women's Values and the Future, was published in 1986.
Scope and Contents of the Collection Project records contain background research material, writings, speeches, correspondence, slides, and photographs pertaining to the Future Is Female Project and the writing of This Way Daybreak Comes. Of particular interest are audiotaped interviews of women in a variety of occupations and living situations throughout North America.
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection with the following caveats: The collection is stored offsite; researchers must give 48 hours advance notice.Access to audiovisual materials may first require production of research copies.This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be difficult to use.
The material in this collection may be protected by copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights for permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Permission must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Feminism--North America--History--20th century--Sources
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Women--History--20th century--Sources
Women artists--History--20th century--Sources
Women--North America--Interviews
Powell, Mary Clare. This Way Daybreak Comes: Women's Values and the Future (1986)--Sources
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Cheatham, Annie. This Way Daybreak Comes: Women's Values and the Future (1986)--Sources
This Way Daybreak Comes: manuscripts, drafts, notes, and correspondence, 1984-85
Future Is Female, 1979-86: traveling interview project materials, correspondence, publicity, notes, printed materials, schedules, financial materials
Research, printed material, 1981-86
Book chapters/ Future Is Female interviews, publicity, research materials, audiotape, correspondence, 1981-84
Research materials: printed material, clippings, publicity, brochures re: art chapter, 1981-84
Research materials
Book galleys, 1990
Interview log
Audiotaped interviews 1982-85
4 card files of addresses, n.d.
Book cover art
Feminist Futures International Network newsletters, drafts, mailing lists, [edited by Cheatham/ Powell-Institute for Women and the Future], 1988
Correspondence, response to book, 1983-88
Organization subject files re: proposed conference, circa 1980
Subject files, research materials, correspondence, 1979-88
Photos, correspondence, memorabilia, 1985
Book mail, 1985-87
Women's movement printed material, books of poetry, magazines, directories, 1980-86
Book clippings, 1986
Book drafts, notes, press materials, publishers correspondence, 1984, n.d.
Book royalties, press and publishers correspondence, reviews, 1984-87
Conferences, proposed projects, 1987
Speeches and presentations, 1987
Audiotaped speech, speeches
5 inch disks of Daybreak
Slides of art and individuals, 1982-86
Journals, logs, correspondence, and photos from trip, 1982-85
Daybreak, hard and soft cover
Future is Female newsletter, 1982
Schedules and mailing lists
Trip narratives and slides, ca. 1982
Scrapbook re: art exhibit, 1981-82