Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography/History
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Related Material
Descriptive Summary
Title: Linda Garber papers
Date (inclusive): 1990-1994
Collection number: 1958
Creator:
Garber, Linda.
Extent:
5 document boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Linda Garber is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University. She received her BA from Harvard
in English and American Literature in 1987. She also received her teaching credentials in the same year from Harvard. She
received her MA from Stanford University in the Modern Thoughts and Literature program in 1990 and completed her PhD in the
same department in 1995. She has held positions at both Santa Clara University and California State University Fresno. While
the collection has a few items relating to the Lesbian Studies Reader and other academic activities, the majority of the collection
covers the publication of the anthology,
Tilting the Tower, including collecting, editing, permissions and revisions.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Linda Garber, 1996. This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L.
Mazer Lesbian Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library.
Processing Note
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.
Sponsor
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Linda Garber papers (Collection Number 1958). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
Biography/History
Linda Garber is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University. She received her BA from Harvard
in English and American Literature in 1987. She also received her teaching credentials in the same year from Harvard. She
received her MA from Stanford University in the Modern Thoughts and Literature program in 1990 and completed her PhD in the
same department in 1995. She has held positions at both Santa Clara University and California State University Fresno.
She has published three books:
Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian - Feminist Roots of Queer Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Tilting the Tower: Lesbians/Teaching/Queer Subjects. New York: Routledge, 1994. Editor.
Lesbian Sources: A Biliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990. New York: Garland, 1993.
Scope and Content
While the collection has a few items relating to the Lesbian Studies Reader and other academic activities, the majority of
the collection covers the publication of the anthology, Tilting the Tower, including collecting, editing, permissions and
revisions.
Organization and Arrangement
Materials arranged according to subject.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Garber, Linda --Archives.
Gay and lesbian studies --Archival resources.
Related Material
Records relating to Linda Garber's time at Stanford after completing her Phd are contained in two separate collections, The
Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences, Innovative Academic Courses, Records 1966-1992 as well as Stanford
University, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Records 1973-2004.