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Eliana Rivero, University of Arizona Spanish and Portugues department, discusses feeling like the 'token Latina' and how some said she looked 'so white'. Despite this, a grant allowed for the furtherment of the Women's Studies department, which…

Judy Temple, University of Arizona English department, discusses being able to teach 'Women in Science' and the rewards of teaching that course with a co-professor. She mentions a male student who questioned everything; he was their thorn in the…

Patricia MacCorquodale discusses receiving a grant at the University of Arizona and a dinner that follows. The Vice President of Research commented that at the end of the grant, there would not be a need for Women's Studies. Yet, Myra Dinnerstein…

Video clip of Patricia MacCorquodale recounting the story of her grandmother's voting practices. Her first voting experience was in Montana, where her husband gave her a small slip of paper stating whom she should vote for -- and she did the same…

Ruth Dickstein, University of Arizona University Libraries, discusses the politics becoming a department on campus and the important role that the Woman's Studies Advisory Council (WOSAC) played. She mentions that Women's Studies, as a program…

Susan Aiken, University of Arizona English department, discusses being one of the first individuals to be working in the field of Women's Studies, and how this work came to be seen as "cutting edge'".

Susan Philips recounts her activism during the women's liberation movement and how that experience helped shape her desire to help found the Women's Studies program at the University of Arizona. Philips notes this was a merger of her political…

Handwritten letter from Arizona Territorial Governor and L.C. Hughes to the Christian Endeavour organization reminding them that if the suffrage was conferred upon women that it would broaden their membership and double the voting power of…

Madge Udall on horseback during the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) suffrage parade in New York City.

May 24, 1919 (Volume 2 Issue 8) edition. Center photo documenting the annual meeting of Arizona Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.

Registering Tohono O'odham people at Southside Presbyterian Chruch

SIROW poster detailing the organization's successes and fundraising to date. Since its inception in 1979, SIROW has helped to bring in close to 100 million dollars in grants and contracts to support our and our collaborators’ efforts to improve…

Flyer for Speak Out For Women event held during the 1975 International Women's Year.

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box, A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line.

Newspaper clippings about "The Daughters of the Desert, Women Anthropologists" exhibit and conference. Articles are in both Spanish and English.

Handbill to amend Section 2 and 15 pf Article VII of the Constitution of the Sate of Arizona, granting to the citizens of the State of Arizona, regardless of sex, the right of suffrage and the right to hold public office.

The very first newsletter distributed by SIROW, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women.