Women

Overview The collection consists of materials documenting the beginning of Women’s Studies as an academic discipline at Rice University. In addition there are materials describing Rice Women’s Conferences that took place in 1996 and 1999. The collection also includes a set of audio cassette-recorded interviews with attendees at the 1996 conference. Beginning in 2006 as an outgrowth of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at...

Overview Correspondence, interview transcripts and materials related to Dr. Linda Driskill's Rice Women's Conference in 1999. The 2012-2013 interviews were conducted by students in two classes of the Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, one under Dr. Lora Wildenthal and the other under Dr. Abigail Rosas, in preparation for the 2014 exhibition and symposium at Fondren Library.