Interviews is this series are designed to preserve the spoken memories of individuals who were instrumental in developing the UCLA Women's Studies Program, established in 1975.
Biographical Note:
UCLA lecturer in history and director of the UCLA Women’s Studies Program. Later professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The interviews in the series the Angela Davis Case were conducted in an effort to document the history of the lawsuit brought against the Board of Regents of the University of California on behalf of Angela Y. Davis.
Women’s Activist Lives in Los Angeles is a series of interviews done by graduate research assistants under the auspices of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. The series addresses the diverse ways in which women’s social movement activities affected public policy and transformed civic institut...
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of anthropology, chair of gender studies, co-chair of Islamic studies, and co-director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.