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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
Abstract | Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972 and helped form the Women's Studies curriculum. Throughout her career she continued to teach courses relating to women at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The collection includes files on organizations with which Margaret O'Connor was involved and publications relating to women's organizations and issues. Organizational materials are letters, minutes of meetings, brochures, and other materials from organizations supporting women faculty, affirmative action, and related course work. Organizations include the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the She newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items. Printed materials include newspaper clippings about national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the She newsletter; and other publications. |
Creator | O'Connor, Margaret Anne. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English. |
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Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972. She later regularly taught classes in Women in American Literature, American Expatriate Women Writers, and Southern Women Writers at the undergraduate level as Women's Studies courses cross-listed with both English and American Studies. At the graduate level, she taught Reconstructing American Literature in the mid-1980s. She was a member of the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Association for Women Faculty; and the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students. Outside the University, she was active in professional women's organizations; in the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; the American Association of University Professors, for which she chaired Committee W for several years in the 1970s; and the Modern Language Association.
Back to TopThe collection includes files on organizations with which University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill English professor Margaret O'Connor was involved and publications relating to women's organizations and issues. Organizational materials are letters, minutes of meetings, brochures, and other materials from organizations supporting women faculty, affirmative action, and related course work. Organizations include the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the She newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items. Printed materials include newspaper clippings about national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the She newsletter; and other publications.
Back to TopMaterials relating to women's organizations that supported women faculty, affirmative action, and related coursework with which Margaret O'Connor was involved. Organizations include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the She newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items.
Folder 1 |
American Association of University Professors (Committee W), 1973-1977 and undated |
Folder 2-4
Folder 2Folder 3Folder 4 |
Association for Women Faculty, 1980-1985 |
Folder 5-7
Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7 |
Status of Women Committee, 1973-1977 and undated |
Folder 8 |
University Women for Affirmative Action, 1972-1976 |
Folder 9-12
Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11Folder 12 |
Women's Forum, 1973-1980 and undated |
Folder 13-20
Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20 |
Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1973-1989 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Newspaper clippings about both national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the She newsletter, published by the Association of Women Students, for women on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus; and other publications by women's organizations and about women's issues.
Folder 21 |
Clippings, 1972-1984 and undated |
Folder 22 |
She newsletter, 1973-1978 |
Folder 23 |
Miscellaneous publications, 1973 |