Making Invisible Histories Visible: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives: A Resource Guide to the Collections

ISBN 10: 0615990843 / ISBN 13: 9780615990842

Published by UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Invisible Histories Visible: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives: A Resource Guide to the Collections
• Publisher: UCLA Center for the Study of Women
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615990843
• ISBN 13: 9780615990842
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

In 2007, CSW commenced a relationship with the Mazer archives through a two-year UCLA community partnership grant. Titled The ?Access Mazer? Organizing and Digitizing the Lesbian Feminist Archive in Los Angeles, the grant provided funds for CSW to process, describe, create finding aids for and digitize five large L.A. based Mazer collections. This collaboration also led to this publication of which Part I presents short essays from participants in the project that address topics ranging from the project?s history to its legal articulation to the distinct pleasures, insights, and challenges that arise from working with the individual collections. Each essayist has engaged in one or more of the tasks this project grants writing, fundraising, administering, negotiating, managing, collecting, processing, describing, preserving, digitizing, and housing these collections. Part II presents abstracts of all 83 collections, together with images and representative documents curated by project personnel. Here, readers can sample the range and depth of the collections themselves. The abstracts gesture to the individual lives, the political and social groups and issues, the myriad types of documents and memorabilia, the literature, images, and social documentation produced by lesbians and feminists whose collections are included in this project. This section registers the material value of and the life in these collections, the scholarly opportunities and resources they afford, and the excitement, pleasure, and insight we have all experienced engaging with these materials and bringing this project to fruition. It makes clear why archives, and lesbian archives in particular, matter.