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Archives and Special Collections Finding Aids
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| Collection |
| Title: | Boston Women's Union records |
| Dates: | 1973–1981 |
| Call Number: | M145 |
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Scope and Content Note
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This collection documents the formation of the Boston Area Socialist Feminist Organization, later renamed the Boston Women's Union. The records focus on the Union's attempts to form a system of governance within the organization and to arrive at a consensus about the group's goals and guiding principles. The records include meeting minutes, statements and position papers, proposals and assessments, political song lyrics, workshop materials, and newsletters.
The “Minutes” and “Steering Committee Reports and Letters” files document the group's efforts to reconcile varying interpretations of socialist feminist theory within the group. These files illustrate the relations between the Boston Women's Union and other local socialist and feminist groups. Also documented are the group's attempts to address lesbian issues, a concern of the greater women's movement at that time. The “Minutes” files contain meeting notes from the Boston Women's Union and the post–1976 discussion group arranged in one chronological sequence. |
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