Series I - NYWAC Records, BOX 1


Box 1, Folder 1 - NYWAC Mailing Lists and General Information

List of speakers at NYWAC/IWAC meetings, 1975-1985
3 pp.

Official NYWAC Membership Certificate
2 copies

Invoice from attorney
New York 18 December 1974
1 p.

NYWAC Questionnaire
1975
3 pp.

Answers to NYWAC Questionnaire
1975
4 pp.

"Sex and Insurance: Charging Us More and Covering Us Less"
Michelle Bart
2 pp.

Flyer announcement for NYWAC meeting
31 October 1975
1 p.

Women who participated in discussion
19 October 1973
1 p.

Mailing To Do List
1 p. (handwritten, Connie Sutton)

New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Core Membership List
May 1974
1 p.

New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Mailing List
3 pp. handwritten

New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Revised Mailing List
3 pp.

New York Women's Anthropology Conference Mailing List
1 p. handwritten

NYWAC mailing list
7 pp.

AAA Motions and Resolutions on Women
2 pp.

AAA Committee on the Status of Women Resolutions Passed
1 p.

Excerpt from AAA Newsletter
January 1974
1 p.


Box 1, Folder 2 -- NYWAC Meeting Minutes

New York Women's Anthropology Caucus
  • Aims, Procedure, Agenda

  • 16 March 1973
    1 p. (typed first draft)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Aims, Procedure, Agenda
    16 March 1973
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    Reminder about New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Meeting
    16 March 1973
    2 pp. (handwritten, Connie Sutton)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Report by Zvia Naphtali on women's caucuses in other disciplines

  • Discussion of Ruth Benedict collective

  • 16 March 1973
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Ruby Leavitt suggests an issue on women in the American Anthropologist

  • Connie Sutton drafts resolutions for eliminating age limits on grants

  • Discussion of women anthropologists facing biases in interviews, orals, etc.

  • Discussion of June Nash's paper on dependency in Bolivia

  • 30 March 1973
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Discussion with Ruth Benedict Collective - trust and organization a barrier

  • 6 April 1973
    6 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • New AA Journal receptive to idea of special issue on women

  • Information on age restrictions on grants and fellowships

  • Laura Klein in contact San Francisco Bay area group

  • Planning activities for New Orleans meetings

  • Sue Makiesky and Thelma Baer discuss anthropology courses on women

  • 20 April 1973
    8 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Kathleen Gouger and Daisy Dywer to edit special issue on women

  • Ruby Leavitt discusses anthropology course on women

  • 2 May 1973
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Networking efforts with other women's caucuses

  • Discussion of field work ethics and advice

  • 21 September 1973
    3 pp.

    New York Caucus of Women Anthropologists Minutes
  • Daisy Dywer and May Diaz as co-editors

  • Support for women workers at Campbell's on strike

  • Work on motions to change age limitations, representation of women in museums, concerning the use of the word man as a generic term for humans

  • 19 October 1973
    2 pp.

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Support for women strikers

  • meeting of NYWAC at the AAA in New Orleans

  • Newsletter sent out

  • Carol Vance discusses the work of the Committee on the Status of Women noting their work to examine discrimination against women in the academy

  • 16 November 1973
    2 pp.

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Discussion of legal requirement that job positions be publicly advertised

  • Committee organized to critique ABC television series "Primal Man"

  • 1 February 1974
    4 pp. (typed version and printed version)

    New York Women Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Teach-in organized about television series "Primal Man"

  • Discussion of interviewing techniques and discriminatory practices

  • 15 February 1974
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus announcements
  • Announcements of events and publications

  • Discussion of Jane Lancaster's article "In Praise of the Achieving Female Monkey"

  • 1 March 1974
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus announcements
  • French social scientist Michelle Mattelart spoke on Chilean women and the Rightist movement

  • 15 March 1974
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Discussion of television series "Primal Man"

  • 29 March 1974
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Organizational meeting

  • 14 April 1974
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)


    Box 1, Folder 3 - NYWAC Meeting Minutes

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Discussion with Karen Sacks and Mona Etienne on the U.S. Women's Movement

  • 3 May 1974
    6 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Viewing of film and discussion

  • Sue Hanchett's reports on session at Barnard on feminists in academe

  • 17 May 1974
    3 pp. (mimeograph original)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Judy Mendell presents a paper on the ethnological exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History

  • Discussion of the official incorporation of NYWAC

  • June Nash discusses support for Harlan Country strikers

  • Funding possibilities discussed

  • 30 May 1974
    4 pp. (mimeograph original and print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Caucus Minutes
  • Discussion of Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere's edited volume, Women, Culture, and Society (Stanford University Press:1974)

  • 12 June 1974
    4 pp. (mimeograph original)

    New York Anthropology Conference
  • Letter seeking contributions

  • 6 November 1974

    New York Women's Anthropology Conference Minutes
  • Presentations of papers for the AAA symposium on "Assumptions About Sex and Gender in General Anthropology"

  • 15 November 1974
    3 pp. (mimeograph print)

    New York Women's Anthropology Conference Minutes
  • Suzanne Hanchett discusses NYWAC meetings at the AAA in Mexico City

  • 17 January 1975
    2 pp.

    New York Women's Anthropology Conference Minutes
  • Presentation of Eleanor Leacock paper "Assumptions about Sex and Gender in General Anthropology"

  • 31 January 1975
    3 pp.

    New York Women's Anthropology Conference Minutes
  • Co-sponsorship for meeting with National Action for Women of Chile

  • Mariam Slater discusses symposium given at Mexico City on sex and gender

  • 14 February 1975
    3 pp.

    New York Women's Anthropologists Committee Minutes
  • Questionnaire developed to determine interests of members

  • Employment of women

  • 17 September 1975
    1 p.

    New York Women's Anthropology Conference Minutes
  • AAA meetings in San Francisco

  • Discussion of presentation of poor people in the media

  • 3 October 1975
    3 pp.

    New York Women's Anthropology Conference Minutes
  • Two NYWAC program sessions at AAA in San Francisco

  • 17 October 1975
    1 p.

    New York Women's Anthropology Conference Minutes
  • New seriousness of purpose of the Committee on the Status of Women

  • 12 December 1975
    1 p.

    NYWAC Business Meeting Minutes
  • Agenda of NYWAC session on Economic Crimes Against Women

  • 20 February 1976
    2 pp.

    NYWAC Minutes
  • Lawyer to investigate how to become an international organization

  • Discussion of CUNY crises

  • Connie Sutton's Project for Research in Nigeria

  • 5 March 1976
    2 pp.

    NYWAC Minutes
  • Discussion of Gayle Rubin's "The Traffic in Women"

  • Discussion of Ruby Rohrlick-Leavitt's et.al. "Aboriginal Women"

  • Discussion of Kathleen Gough "The Origin of the Family"

  • 20 March 1976
    6 pp.

    NYWAC report on Committee on Women and Work
    Meeting held at Eleanor Leacock's apartment
    4 pp.

    NYWAC Minutes
  • Guest Speaker, Inna Smirnovna, Russian representative to the UN program for Equal Rights for Men and Women

  • 2 April 1976
    2 pp.

    NYWAC Minutes
  • Guest Speaker, Dr. Gene Weltfish, student of Boas

  • 23 April 1976
    1 p.

    NYWAC Minutes
  • Suggestions for direction of NYWAC

  • 7 May 1976
    2 pp.


    Box 1, Folder 4 -- NYWAC Correspondences

    Connie Sutton
    To: Robert A. Manners, Editor American Anthropologist
    New York 14 November 1973
    2 pp.

    Connie Sutton
    To: May Diaz
    New York 16 November 1973
    1 p.

    Connie Sutton
    To: Margaret Mead
    New York 18 November 1973
    1 p.

    Connie Sutton
    To: Ernie Friedl
    New York 18 November 1973
    1 p.

    Daisy Hike Dwyer
    To: Robert Manners
    29 November 1973
    1 p.

    Connie Sutton
    To: Robert A. Manners
    New York 4 December 1973
    1 p.

    Robert A. Manners
    To: Ruby R. Leavitt
    Massachusetts 7 January 1974
    1 p.

    Robert A. Manners
    To: Connie Sutton
    Massachusetts 8 January 1974
    2 pp.

    Wendie L. Elovich
    To: Ed Lehman, Executive Director AAA
    New York 29 April 1974
    1 p.

    Wendie L. Elovich
    To: Ed Lehman
    New York 13 May 1974

    Connie Sutton
    To: Lamster
    New York 24 May 1974
    1 p.

    Connie Sutton
    To: Edward J. Lehman
    New York 18 July 1974
    2 pp.

    Edward J. Lehman
    To: Connie Sutton
    answered 13 October 1974
    1 p. memo

    Constance Sutton, Eleanor Leacock
    To: Edward H. Spicer, President AAA
    New York 12 November 1974
    3 pp.

    Edward J. Lehman
    To: Constance Sutton
    Washington D.C. 27 August 1975
    1 p.

    Lorraine Cooper Presnick, Attorney-At-Law
    To: Connie Sutton
    New York 29 April 1976
    2 pp.

    Constance Sutton, Executive Secretary and Treasurer, IWAC
    To: Lorraine Cooper Presnick
    1 May 1976
    1 p.

    Suzanne
    To: Ruby Rhorlick
    Texas 3 May 1976
    2 pp.

    Lorraine Cooper Presnick, Attorney-At-Law
    To: Connie Sutton
    New York 9 June 1976
    1 p.

    Lorraine Cooper Presnick
    To: Lois J. Lefkiwitz, Attorney General
    New York, 4 August 1976
    1 p.

    Lorraine Cooper Presnick, Attorney-At-Law
    To: Connie Sutton
    New York 16 August 1976
    1 p.

    Lorraine Cooper Presnick
    To: Clerk of the Court
    New York, 16 August 1976
    1 p.

    Marjorie A. Muecke
    To: Eleanor Leacock
    Timonium, Maryland 11 September 1979
    1 p.