Lisa Leghorn Papers, 1966-1982
3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 270
Terms of Access and Use:
The Papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions.
Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Feminist and author Lisa Leghorn received her Master's degree from Goddard College. She is the author of Social Responses to Battered Women (1976), co-author of Who really starves? : Women and World Hunger (Lisa Leghorn and Mary Roodkowsky, 1977); Woman's Worth: Sexual Economics and the World of Women (Lisa Leghorn and Katherine Parker, 1981); and co-author (with Betsy Warrior) of Houseworker's Handbook (1974), as well as numerous published articles. In the 1970's Leghorn worked with Transition House, a battered women's shelter in Boston.
No further biographical information is available at this time.
The Lisa Leghorn Papers consist of her research files, organized by subject. Types of material include articles, notes, correspondence, published and unpublished writings, and printed material. The files relate to her books on women and development; woman and hunger; women, economics and housework. There are also materials on battered women (including Laura X case); women's rights in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean and the U.S.; and the International Women's Year Conference in Houston in 1977.
The Papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions.
Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
"Lisa Leghorn Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass."
Lisa Leghorn donated her Papers to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1987. Periodic additions to this collection are expected and may not be included in this record.
Preliminary processing done by Annie-Sage Whitehurst, Fraenkel intern, 2009.
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"Baby Bottle": periodical, resources list and clippings
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1975-1978
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Box 1: folder 1
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Battered women
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Miscellaneous periodicals
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1977-1983
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Box 1: folder 2
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Leghorn's "Social Responses to Battered Women"
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1976
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Box 1: folder 3
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Early feminist movement
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Published material: clippings, periodicals, and mailings
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1966-1978
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Box 1: folder 4
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Writing
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1966-1978
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Box 1: folder 5
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Housework
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Clippings, papers, pamphlets and periodicals
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1973-1980
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Box 1: folder 6
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Writing
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1973-1980
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Box 2: folder 1
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International Women's Year Conference (Houston): mailings and printed material
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1975-1977
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Box 2: folder 2
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Women and development: official reports, clippings, pamphlets and a paper
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1975-1980
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Box 2: folder 3
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Women and economics, paid work and financial independence: clippings and articles
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1975-1982
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Box 2: folder 4
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Women and global culture
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Cross-culturally and internationally: clippings and articles
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1974-1981
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Box 2: folder 5
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Egalitarian societies: papers, clippings and booklets
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1975-1977, n.d.
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Box 2: folder 6
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Africa: clippings, papers, booklets, periodicals
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1975-1976, n.d.
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Box 3: folder 1
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Asia: mailings, clippings, periodicals
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1973-1980, n.d.
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Box 3: folder 2
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Women in the Carribean, China and Cuba: printed material, mailings
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1974-1978
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Box 3: folder 3
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Women in Latin America: publications
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1975-1978, n.d.
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Box 3: folder 4
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Women and hunger
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Paper, periodicals
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1973-1977
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Box 3: folder 5
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"Women in a Hungry World" packet
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1979
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Box 3: folder 6
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Periodicals
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Box 3: folder 7
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Women: A Journal of Liberation (vol.3, no.4)
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n.d.
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Box 3
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No More Fun and Games / The Female State: A Journal of Female Liberation (issues 2-5)
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1969-1971
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Box 3
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