Special Collections

In 1974 land in Grant’s Pass, Oregon, was purchased to start WomanShare, the first women’s land in southern Oregon. To understand how land stewards enacted political ideologies in their living practices Dr. Cooper turns to the 1976 publication Country Lesbians, a nonfiction text authored by the five women who founded the collective. She reads Country Lesbians, as part handbook and part memoir to address the question: what did a separatist politic historically and at present afford land

Dr. Elizabeth Groeneveld focuses on the Los Angeles-based periodical, Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture, and its publication of two pieces on the subject of transsexual women and their relationship to feminism: one piece is a lengthy essay written by Janice Raymond who has become known as one of the foremost anti-trans ~feminists~; the other is a photo essay created by the lesser-known Jilly Lauren, whose ~Transsexual Collage~ offers a far more empathetic treatment of trans individuals.

Revisiting second wave feminism 1970-85 (& first wave lesbian feminism) via the Friedman Feminist Press Collection.

After delving into the collection, Snowdon realized just how revolutionary these books were.

The Colorado State University Libraries has named Kianna M. Middleton as the first-ever recipient of the Friedman Feminist Press Collection Research Grant.The grant is awarded to researchers whose work would benefit from access to the Libraries’ Friedman Feminist Press Collection, the largest collection of feminist press-published books in the Rocky Mountain West region.