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Historical Note

Daedalus is the quarterly journal of the American �鶹��ý��վ. In the fall of 1987, Daedalus published an issue titled “Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power.” More than twenty years earlier, in 1964, the journal had published its first gender-themed issue, “The Woman in America.” 1987's “Learning About Women” came in response to the changing landscape of the gender studies discipline, seeking to examine how the field had developed and how these transformations impacted the ways Americans were thinking about gender in the 1980s.

Prior to planning meetings, Daedalus editor Stephen Graubard invited feminist scholars Susan Bourque, Jill Ker Conway, and Joan Wallach Scott to guest edit the issue. In planning meetings, the editors brought together scholars, theorists, and activists from a variety of disciplines, including historians Penina Migdal Glazer and Carl N. Degler, scientists Anne Fausto-Sterling and Evelyn Fox Keller, and politicians Elizabeth Holtzman and Shirley Williams. As Graubard wrote in his preface to the issue, “the more that serious and continuing dialogue can be opened up to involve men and women both inside and outside gender studies, the more the field’s ample dimension will be recognized.” The “Learning About Women” issue was republished in book form by the University of Michigan Press in 1989.

Funding was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. 

Scope and Content

This collection contains records related to Daedalus Volume 116, Number 4, “Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power,” 1984-1989. Materials include correspondence, editorial files, and conference and research, publicity, and publication materials. Correspondence includes letters exchanged between editor Stephen Graubard, the three guest editors, and the issue’s contributing authors. Drafts and proofs of each article contain editorial notes and changes made in the months leading up to publication. Research, publicity, and planning materials include interview transcripts, conference materials, and press clippings, among other items.

Arrangement

Processing for this series utilized “More Product, Less Process” (MPLP) principles: thus, minimal preservation steps were taken and folder titles listed in the finding aid are as they appeared on the original folders. Where lacking, folder titles and dates have been ascribed in brackets. 
This series is arranged into three Subseries of materials: Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1985-1989; Subseries 2: Editorial Files, 1987; and Subseries 3: Research, Publicity, and Administrative Materials, 1984-1988. 
Subseries 2 is further subdivided into two sub-subseries: Sub-subseries 2.1: Drafts, 1987; and Sub-subseries 2.2 Proofs, 1987. 
Subseries 3 is further subdivided into three sub-subseries: Sub-subseries 3.1: Conference and Planning Materials, 1984-1989; Sub-subseries 3.2: Interviews, 1985-1987; and Sub-subseries 3.3: Publication Materials, 1987-1988. Materials in Subseries 1 and 2 are arranged alphabetically by author’s last names. Subseries 3 is arranged chronologically.

Processing Information

Processed by Laura Koch, Simmons SLIS Intern, Spring 2019.

Volume

2 records center cartons (2 linear feet)

Preferred Citation

[Item title, date]. Daedalus, Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power. Volume 116, no. 4 (Fall 1987). Archives, American �鶹��ý��վ of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Subjects

Feminism.
Women--Political activity.

Daedalus (Boston, Mass.)
Bourque, Susan Carolyn, 1943- 
Conway, Jill K., 1934- 
Graubard, Stephen Richards
Scott, Joan Wallach
Rockefeller Foundation