Guide to the Women and Gender Studies Center records, 1990-2010, R0090

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Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Women and Gender Studies Center records, R0090, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Accessioned by Special Collections Research Center in 2011 and 2022.

Processing Information

Original collection processed in 2018 by Jimmy Loung. Additional materials processed in 2025 by Maegan Jankowski and Robert Vay.

Historical Note

Conceived in 1989 as a complement to George Mason University's newly created Women's Studies Program the Women and Gender Studies Center (formerly called the Women's Studies Research and Resource Center) serves both George Mason faculty and students.

George Mason University's Women's Studies Program began during the Spring 1990 semester as an undergraduate interdisciplinary minor. Today the program offers undergraduate and graduate opportunities with concentrations in Women Studies in both the Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Studies and Master of Arts in Individualized Studies.

The Women's Studies Research and Resource Center opened in 1990 in a small office located on the first floor of Student Union Building I. It was tasked with provideing academic programming on women and gender-related issue, supporting faculty and student research, and promoting outreach to students. In 1994 the Center moved to the 2nd Floor of the George W. Johnson Center and remains there to this day.

While the Women's Studies Program was a unit of Mason's former College of Arts and Sciences, the Women and Gender Studies Resource Center is administered by both the College Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of University Life.

Scope and Content

The records primarily document the Womens Studies Program (WSP) and, to a lesser extent, the Women and Gender Studies Center (WGSC) from 1990-2009.

Types of materials in the collection include memoranda and correspondence pertaining to the operation and activities of WSP and WGSC from 1990 to 1997; application and renewal paperwork for affiliate faculty in WSP; fliers, pamplets, calendars and other documents detailing events sponsored by WSP and WGSC; photographs and a scrapbook containing narratives of the history of the WGSC as told by former employees and administrators in 2006.

Records are arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Administrative correspondence and memoranda

Series 2: Records pertaining to Affiliate Professors application to a membership in the Women's Studies Program (1997-2009)

Series 3: Materials documenting Women's Studies Program courses and Women and Gender Stusies Center activities and events

Series 4: Photographs of events and programs sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Center.

Series 5: Scrapbook containing narratives of former WGS staff detailing the history of the Women and Gender Studies Center

Arrangement

Records are arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Administrative correspondence and memoranda (1990-1997)

Series 2: Records of Affiliate Professors belonging to the Women's Studies Program (1997-2009)

Series 3: Materials documenting Women's Studies Program courses and Women and Gender Stusies Center activities and events

Series 4: Photographs of events and programs sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Center.

Series 5: Scrapbook containing narratives of the history of the Women and Gender Studies Center as told by former employees and administrators.

Container List

Series 1: Administrative correspondence and memoranda

Mixed Materials box: 1 1990-1998

Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1
Correspondence and memoranda 1 of 2
1990
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2
Correspondence and memoranda 2 of 2
1990
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3
Correspondence and memoranda 1 of 3
1991
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4
Correspondence and memoranda 2 of 3
1991
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5
Correspondence and memoranda 3 of 3
1991
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 6
Correspondence and memoranda
1992
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 7
Correspondence and memoranda
1993
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 8
Correspondence and memoranda
1994
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 9
Correspondence and memoranda
1995
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 10
Correspondence and memoranda
1996
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 11
Correspondence and memoranda
1997
Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 12
Email messages/memoranda, Anita Taylor
1998

Series 2: Records pertaining to Affiliate Professors application to a membership in the Women's Studies Program

Mixed Materials Boxes: 2-3 1997-2009

Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 1
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
1997
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 2
Womans Studies faculty membership applications 1 of 3
1998
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 3
Womans Studies faculty membership applications 2 of 3
1998
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 4
Womans Studies faculty membership applications 3 of 3
1998
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 5
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
1999
Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 6
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2000
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2001
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2002
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2003
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2004
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2005
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 6
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2006
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 7
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2007
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 8
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2008
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 9
Womans Studies faculty membership applications re-affirmed
2008
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 10
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2009
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 11
Womans Studies faculty membership applications re-affirmed
2009
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 12
Womans Studies faculty membership applications
2010
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 13
Women's Studies Faculty and Affiliates List
1997-1998, 2000
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 14
Women's Studies faculty meeting
April 8, 1998
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 15
Women's Studies Membership Committee, draft letters/memoranda
Ca 1998-1999
Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 16
Executive Committee Elections
September 24, 1997

Series 3: Materials documenting Women's Studies Program courses and Women and Gender Stusies Center activities and events

Mixed Materials Boxes: 4-5 1987-2010

Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 1
Fall 2008 Syllabi
2008
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 2
Spring 2009 Syllabi
2009
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 3
Spring 2010 Syllabi
2010
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 4
Fall 2009 Syllabus
2009
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 5
Fall 2010 Syllabi and Course Descriptions
2010
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 6
Women's Studies Course Offerings and flyers
1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 7
Women's Studies Course Schedule
2004-2005
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 8
Women's Studies Operating Principles and Bylaws
1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 9
Women and Gender Studies informational flyers
2000s
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 10
Scholarships for Women and Minorities
1995-1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 11
Student organizations affiliated with the the Women's Center
1995-1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 12
Activities organized by the Women's Center
1995-1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 13
On-campus activities co-sponsored or promoted by the Women's Center
1995-1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 14
Off-campus activities co-sponsored or promoted by the Women's Center
1995-1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 15
Women's Studies Resertch and Resource Center information
1995-1996
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 16
Women's Studies Resertch and Resource Center Calendar of Events and Affiliated Events
Fall 2004
Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 17
Women's Studies Center: reception honoring Women's Studies faculty book authors
September 28, 2006
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 1
Goat Distribution, Women's Center for Jog Creation
March 2009
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 2
Goat Project, correspondence
2000s
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 3
Helping Women, The Goat Project
October 10, 2009
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 4
"I Sent a Goat to a Woman in Uganda" Goat Project
2000s
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 5
"Stalking" and "Harassing Phone Calls" George Mason Police and Public Safety Office brochures
1990s
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 6
"Faculty Facts" and "Take Back the Night" Sexual Assault Services
1995, 2004
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 7
Sexual Minority Youth: An Annotated Bibliography
1984
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 8
Women in Science and Technology
1997
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 9
Why are there goats at Mason on Earth Day, Goat Project
2000s
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 10
What We Do, Women's Center for Jpb Creation,Goat Project
November 2009
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 11
Women's Center for Job Creation, Goat Project
2006
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 12
Women's Studies Programs [brochures]
1987-1998
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 13
Women and Gender Studies [brochures]
1990, 2006-2009
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 14
Newsletters: Women's Studies Center and others
1991-2007
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 15
Newspaper clippings, various topics
2002-2003
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 16
Fliers and calendars detailing Women's Studies - related events
1990-2011
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 17
Women's Studies Research and Resource Center Calendar of Events
1990s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 18
The Mason Gender Project: A Collection of Student Rearch Papers
2010
Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 19
Sojourner Truth Lecture
February 9, 2018

Series 4: Photographs of events and programs sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Center

Mixed Materials box: 6 1980s-2010s

Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 1
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [1 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 2
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [2 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 3
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [3 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 4
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [4 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 5
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [5 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 6
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [6 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 7
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [7 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 8
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [8 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 9
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [9 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 10
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [10 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 11
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [11 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 12
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [12 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 13
Conferences, Fundraisers and Events [13 of 13]
1980s-2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 14
Women's Studies speaker event
2000s
Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 15
Pride Week photographs
2000s