Inventory of the Centers And Programs. Office Of Women's Affairs/Center For Women And Religion, 1969-88.
Processed by Lucinda Glenn Rand, Archivist; machine-readable finding aid created by
Xiuzhi Zhou
Graduate Theological Union Archives
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© 1999
The Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.
Inventory of the Centers And Programs. Office Of Women's Affairs/Center For Women And Religion, 1969-88.
Accession number: GTU 92-3-1
Shelf location: 3/D/5 - 3/E/2 (Negatives, 1/A/2; Slides, 1/A/3); Record Group: RG 7, Subgroup C
The Graduate Theological Union Archives
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Graduate Theological Union Archives
- 2400 Ridge Road
- Berkeley, California, 94709
- Phone: (510) 649-2507
- Fax: (510) 649-2508
- Email: lglenn@gtu.edu
- URL: http://www.gtu.edu/library/archives.html
- Processed by:
- Lucinda Glenn Rand, Archivist
- Date Completed:
- May 1994
- Date Revised:
- November and December 1995
- Cataloged:
- 12/94
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Centers And Programs. Office of Women's Affairs/Center for Women and Religion,
Date (inclusive): 1969-88.
Accession number: GTU 92-3-1
Shelf location: 3/D/5 - 3/E/2 (Negatives, 1/A/2; Slides, 1/A/3); Record Group: RG 7, Subgroup C
Creator:
Office of Women's Affairs/Center for Women and Religion
Size: 15 boxes; 10 1/2 ft.
Repository: The Graduate Theological Union.
Introduction: The collection came to Archives from the Center in the order preserved here. The CWR office kept their records chronologically
by academic year then alphabetical within each year. The records were kept by a succession of staff persons, therefore the
completeness and organization of each years' records vary. Records for CWR Board of Directors and Steering Committee may not
be complete. There was a series of three-ring binders that held the minutes from 1970-80 as well as file folders of minutes
within each academic year's records. It is not clear whether the binders or the file folders held complete minutes. Since
there were no binders after 1980, and not necessarily file folders of minutes in each year, the minutes from 1980 - 87 are
spotty at best. Likewise, records for CWR publications are incomplete. There is a complete run of the OWA Newsletter (1975-77),
and the
Journal of Women and Religion (1981-88), but the CWR Newsletter (1983-87) is incomplete.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing
to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of The Graduate Theological Union as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Centers and Programs. Office Of Women's Affairs/Center for Women and Religion, GTU 92-3-1, The Graduate
Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Access Points
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources
Graduate Theological Union. Center for Women and Religion
Graduate Theological Union. Office of Women's Affairs
Women -- Clergy -- History -- Sources
Women -- San Francisco Bay area -- History -- Sources
Women and religion -- History -- Sources
Women in church work -- History -- Sources
Agency History
The Center for Women and Religion, the oldest center for women in theological education, was founded in 1970 as the Office
of Women's Affairs by Bay Area women in religion, including some GTU women, who recognized "that seminary women at the GTU
schools needed a channel, an advocate, an office through which to express their needs and concerns."
(CWR Newsletter, Summer 1978, pg. 10) It operated originally out of Unitas, the campus ministry program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Soon, OWA became affiliated with the GTU, though the process, complicated by discussions about and differing expectations
of funding, sponsorship, and support, was not smooth or simple. By 1977 or 1978, the name was changed to the Center for Women
and Religion. For a short period, both names were used for various events and functions. After affiliation with GTU, OWA/CWR
had an office at the 2465 LeConte Building (then the administration building for the GTU), expanding later to an office in
the GTU Annex at 2452 Virginia and the CWR House at 1730 Scenic.
OWA/CWR conceived that the foci of its work would be in the areas of research, the status of women in religious structures,
and community building for women students, faculty, staff, and spouses moving to the goal of ending sexism and promoting justice
in and through religion. It worked to accomplish these goals through the distribution of resources, offering GTU courses,
and through various sponsored conferences, programs, events, and groups. Early publications include
Women and the Word: Toward a Whole Theology an anthology of women's writings;
Women in a Strange Land: Search for a New Image, a collection of writings about women's experiences of isolation during the period of early feminist theological scholarship;
and
Woman: A Theological Perspective, 1974, a bibliography on women and religion compiled by Clare Fischer and Rochelle Gatlin, and an updated
Breaking Through: A Bibliography of Women and Religion, 1980. CWR has published a newsletter since 1975, and since 1981, the
Journal of Women and Religion.
By 1985, CWR was able to express its purpose thus: the Center is "an international network of members committed to mutual
support, education, and action. It is an ecumenical community whose purpose is: (1) to transform theological education through
curriculum, faculty development, and pedagogical transformation pursuant to a feminist perspective, and through research and
resource development; (2) to affirm and support equal and just participation of women within religious institutions; (3) to
affirm and support ministry by CWR and by women beyond the traditional structures of church and theological education; and
(4) to develop seminars and extra-seminary funding sources." ("Proposal to Attend the UN Decade for Women in Nairobi, Kenya,
July 1985")
Separation Notes
1)
Articles on Women (bound volume). Collected by CWR staff for the GTU Library, 1972-77. Rare Book: HQ1393 G7.
2)
Breaking Through: A Bibliography of Women and Religion, Clare B. Fischer and Rochelle Gatlin, 1980. Rare Book: Z7963 R45 F57.
3)
Woman: A Theological Perspective, Clare B. Fischer, 1974. Rare Book: Z7963 T5 F5.
4)
Women in a Strange Land: Search for a New Image, eds., Clare B. Fischer, Betsy Brenneman, Anne McGrew Bennett, 1975. Rare Book: HQ1394 W64.
Series Description
Office Files
Additional Note
Boxes 1-6 are office working files arranged in the original order chronologically by academic year, then alphabetically within
each year.
Box Box 1
1969-70 - 1973-74, Commission on the Status of Women, GTU
Box Box 2
1973-74, Correspondence - 1976-77, Correspondence, Ford Program
Box Box 3
1976-77, Courses on Women - 1977-78
Box Box 4
1978-79 - 1979-80, Steering Committee
Box Box 5
1979-80, Women's Ordination Conf. - 1981-82, Women of the Decade
Box Box 6
1981-82, Women of the Decade (con't.) - 1985-86
Box Box 7, Folder ff 1-7
Board Meeting Minutes, 1970-71 - 1976-77
Additional Note
Taken from 3-ring binders.
Folder ff 8-9
Steering Committee Minutes, 1977-78 - 1979-80
Additional Note
Taken from 3-ring binders.
Folder ff 10-20
Brochures and correspondence, 1981-87; Newsletter, 1985-87
Ford Foundation Grant Program
Folder ff 21-35
"Toward a Whole Theological Education," 1971 - 1977-78
Box Box 8, Folder ff 1-19
CWR History Project Files, 1980
Folder ff 20-34
Project to write a history of the Center after the first 10 years. Taken from 3-ring binders. The project is a collection
of research materials copied from the CWR files and other GTU sources pertaining to CWR. The materials are divided by year:
Year 1, 1970-71 through Year 10, 1979-80. There is no final product.
Box Box 9
Resources, 1970-78; alphabetical
Additional Note
A collection of women's organizations' materials: brochures, newsletters, general information.
Box Box 11
Photographs; 262 photographs, 1978-85
CWR activities and events.
Additional Note
Taken from two 3-ring binders. Kept in original order and using original captions. Arranged chronologically.
Box Box 12
Photographs; (con't.) 237 photographs, 1985 - March 1988
Box Box 13
6 reels, scotch video tape
Additional Note
The box from which these were taken was postmarked, 1976. The box was labeled, "Dialogue: Marcy, Mercy, Berger, Rae, & Brigit
??".
Newsletters and Journals, 4 ff
Box Box 14, Folder ff 1-3
OWA (Office of Women's Affairs) Newsletter (a quarterly), 1975-80; Vol. 1 no. 1 - Vol. 6 no. 4 (complete run).
Additional Note
Name change: Spring 1977, Vol. 3 no. 3, it becomes the Center for Women and Religion Newsletter.
Folder ff 4
CWR Newsletter, 1983 - January 1987 (bi-weekly), Vol. 2 no. 1 - Vol. 5 no. 9 (missing: Vol. 1, 1982-83; most of Vol. 3, 1984-85; and Vol. 5 no. 10 on, 1987)
Newsletters and Journals, 12 ff
Box Box 15, Folder ff 1
Journal of Women and Religion, Correspondence, 1981
Folder ff 2-12
Journal of Women and Religion, 1981-88 (bi-annual until 1986, then annual), Vol. 1 no. 1 - Vol. 7.
SLIDES
Additional Note
Slides were in small boxes or envelopes or loose in a record storage box with no order. Some boxes were labeled and dated,
many were not. If labeled, that label is used here. Most individual slides were not labeled. Some dates I have taken from
the processing date stamped in the slide. Arranged here chronologically. All slides are individually number and arranged sequentially.
Box GTU Slides Box 1/A
1-6, Barbara Waugh and Mary Cross, Co-directors, 1981
7-15, Sandy Park's ordination, 1981
16-18, CWR Journal Cover, 1981
19-27, CWR Yard and staff, 1981
28-39, Quilting at Unitas, 1981
40-88, Women of the Decade Reception and Banquet, 1981
101-178, General CWR events (not labeled, no order), 1981
Additional Note
(there is no slide #101 because of misnumbering in processing the collection)
179-215, Women's Interseminary Conference, 1982
Box GTU Slides Box 1/B
216-251, Women's Interseminary Conference (con't.)
252-292, Retreat, c. 1985
293-297, Steering Committee Orientation, 1985
298-316, UN International Decade of Women Meeting, Kenya, 1985
317-337, Class: Issues in Feminist Studies (?, unlabeled, no order), 1988
338-348, Steering Committee Meeting (?, unlabeled, no order), 1988
349-430, General CWR events, 1988 (unlabeled, no order)
Box GTU Slides Box 1/C
431-500, General CWR events, 1988 (con't.)
NEGATIVES
Additional Note
Negatives were in envelopes, all labeled and most were dated, with no order. Arranged here chronologically.
Box GTU Negatives Box 1, Folder ff 1
3 strips, Barbara Waugh and Mary Cross, Co-directors, c. 1979
Folder ff 2
10 strips, Women of the Decade, 1981
Folder ff 3
14 strips, Women's Interseminary Conference, 1982
Folder ff 4
2 strips, Staff Retreat, January 1985
Folder ff 5
7 strips, Christa Sculpture, c. 1986
Folder ff 6
6 strips, Isis Oasis Retreat, 1987
