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Frances Wasserlein fonds
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UBC Project on Non Academic Women records

Series consists of notes, correspondence, memos, lists of names, questionnaires, and receipts related to Frances Wasserlein's involvement with a project to produce a history of the Dean of Women's Office at UBC, then known as the Women Students' Office.

Canada Council Grant Application

Series consists of one file of notes, drafts, correspondence, receipts and copies of Frances Wasserlein's Canada Council Grant application in 1982. The grant application was made to request support for writing a book about the history of the women's liberation movement in British Columbia.

MA Thesis records

Series consists of materials used by Frances Wasserlein in producing her MA thesis, written between 1985 and1990, "An Arrow Aimed at the Heart": the Vancouver Women's Caucus and the Abortion Campaign, 1969-1971. The thesis topic was the history of the Vancouver Women's Caucus (VWC) and the abortion campaign of 1969-1971. The series consists of taped interviews with VWC members; transcripts of the interviews; notes; drafts; bibliographies; correspondence; publications of women's liberation organizations in Canada and the United States; a scrapbook compiled by Wasserlein during her research; copies of the VWC newspaper, The Pedestal; photographs; and other miscellaneous papers and publications.

Miscellaneous Papers and Publications

Sub-series consists of newspapers, publications from women's liberation organizations, academic papers, copies of the Vancouver Women's Caucus newspaper The Pedestal, recordings of CBC Morningside broadcasts, and a taped interview with Dr. Margaret Benston. Benston was a founding member of the Women's Studies Department at SFU and a prominent activist for social justice in Canada.

Notes and Drafts

Sub-series consists of records related to the production of draft copies of Wasserlein's MA thesis. The sub-series contains notes, outlines, bibliographies, resource lists, a newspaper index, newspaper clippings, correspondence, chapter drafts and a draft final copy.

General Research Materials

Sub-series consists of source material compiled by Wasserlein during the writing of her MA thesis. The sub-series contains a photocopy of a scrapbook produced by Marge Hollibaugh; notes; bibliographies; correspondence; publications from women's liberation organizations; proceedings from the Vancouver Indochinese Women's Conference, 1972; photographs from the Abortion Caravan to Ottawa, 1970; copies of the Vancouver Women's Caucus newspaper, The Pedestal; and photocopies of other miscellaneous published material.

Interviews

Sub-series consists of records related to interviews conducted by Wasserlein with members of the Vancouver Women's Caucus. The sub-series contains tape recorded interviews, interview transcripts, correspondence with interview subjects, a notebook, and reference copies of the interview cassettes created by the archives.

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