Women in community organization
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Annette Oxindine Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4673
Overview
Annette Oxindine is a professor of English at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio (as of 2025 June). She attended West Virginia University (WVU) between 1982 and 1985, during which she became active with the Artemis Sisters Collective, a local feminist collective formed in 1982 September for the purpose of promoting women's empowerment through creative, political, and social engagement. This collection contains photographs from her time with the Artemis Sisters and written responses to...
Dates:
1983-1984; 2023 March 15
Artemis Sisters Collective Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4561
Overview
The Artemis Sisters Collective was a local Morgantown, West Virginia feminist collective formed in September 1982 for the purpose of promoting women's empowerment through creative, political, and social engagement. The bulk of materials range in dates from 1980 to 1987 and include information regarding the SisterSpace Collective, various women's defense committees, musical acts, and social activism. Materials include posters, pamphlets, correspondence, cassette tapes, meeting minutes,...
Dates:
1980-1994, 2016-2024, and undated; Majority of material found within 1980-1994
Carrie Koeturius Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4356
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials pertaining to Carrie Koeturius and her career at and connections with West Virginia University. Koeturius is an alumna of WVU, and has worked at WVU as manager of its Conference Center (1984), served as co-chair of the WVU Conference on Women and Creativity (1984), and was recipient of the Mary Catherine Buswell Award (1984). In 1984 she moved to California. Formats include clippings, correspondence, conference materials and publications, etc....
Dates:
1982-2011
Christine Weiss Daugherty Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4509
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials pertaining to Christine Weiss Daugherty and her work with women’s economic development, rural economic development, non-profit management, and international development. Materials include correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, resumes, a diploma, magazines, books, pamphlets, notes, contact lists, journals, scrapbooks, research materials, interviews, family history materials, economic reports, newsletters, and CDs. The collection is...
Dates:
1930-2021 and undated; Majority of material found within 1972-2020
Maryat Lee, Playwright, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3300
Overview
Maryat Lee (1923-1989) was an American playwright and theater director who made important contributions to post-World War II avant-garde theater. She pioneered street theater in Harlem and later founded EcoTheater in West Virginia, a community-based theater project. Materials include reports, newsletters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, posters, manuscripts, notes, scripts, screenplays, published plays, genealogical research, journals, drawings,...
Dates:
1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1951-1989
West Virginia University, Justitia Law Students Wives' Club Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5281
Overview
Papers and other materials of Justitia, the Law Students Wives’ Club (1952 – 1983) of West Virginia University College of Law. Founded by June Santee and Pat Simonton in 1957, Justitia was a women’s organization designed to offer a community of support to law student wives, to create an opportunity to socialize, and support their husbands and the WVU College of Law through meetings, publications, fundraisers and activities.
Dates:
1957-1983, undated
Womynkind Foundation Newsletters and Other Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4515
Overview
The Womynkind Foundation was formed in Charleston, West Virginia and sought to promote the artistic endeavors and issues relevant to women. The Womynkind Foundation started a newsletter, the Womynkind’s Community Newsletter to spread events of interest for women and feature women’s thoughts, poetry, and experiences. This collection contains a full run of the Womynkind's Community Newsletter published by the Womynkind Foundation and the...
Dates:
1990-1997