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Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
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    • Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz
    • EXPLORE BY CHAPTER
      • Ch. 1: Histories of Santa Cruz
      • Ch. 2: Envisioning A New Campus of the University of California, 1956-1961
      • Ch. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965
      • Ch. 4: Finding Faculty for the Experiment
      • Ch. 5: Cowell, Stevenson, and the Dream Becomes Reality
      • Ch. 6: An Unexpected Flourishing of the Sciences
      • Ch. 7: The Chadwick Garden and the Arboretum
      • Ch. 8: The Rising Counterculture
      • Ch. 9: The Vietnam War, Academic Freedom, and Campus Activism
      • Ch. 10: Escalating Protests and a Campus Divided
      • Ch. 11: "The Changing City on a Hill"
      • Ch. 12: "A Male Academic Locker Room"
      • Ch. 13: Kresge College
      • Ch. 14: Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation
      • Ch. 15: The Formation of College Five and the Kindling of the Arts
      • Ch. 16: The Genesis of Environmental Studies and College Eight
      • Ch. 17: The Building College-Board Crisis and the End of the McHenry Era
      • Ch. 18: A Crisis of Leadership and a Search for New Direction
      • Ch. 19: Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer and the "Reorganization" of the Experiment
      • Ch. 20: A Growing UCSC in the Community
      • Ch. 21: Finding a Place on a "Very White Campus"
      • Ch. 22: The Sinsheimer Era's Final Years
      • Ch. 23: Earthquakes: The Stevens Years
      • Ch. 24: A "Maturing" Campus Considers Its Direction
      • Ch. 25: Chancellor Karl Pister
      • Ch. 26: Affirmative Action and Diversity in a Hostile Climate
      • Ch. 27: UCSC as a Leader in the Research Sciences
      • Ch. 28: Conventional Grading, Graduate Education, and New Priorities
      • Ch. 29: Inventing and Reinventing Interdisciplinarity
      • Ch. 30: Often Invisible, Underpaid, and Overworked: Staff and Lecturers
      • Ch. 31: Still Pioneering: A New Experiment in College Nine and Ten
      • Ch. 32: The Brief and Tragic Tenure of Chancellor Denice Denton
      • Ch. 33: An Acting Chancellor in a Time of Instability
      • Ch. 34: Endings and Beginnings in a Time of Austerity
      • Ch. 35: The Continuing Story of Protest at UCSC
      • Ch. 36: What We Value Now: UCSC at Fifty
      • Ch. 37: The 2016 Election, Reaction, and Resistance
      • Coda

Ch. 14: Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation

"Teach in about Laos," wood block print poster. Sponsored by Women Together, circa late 1960s or early 1970s.

"Teach-in about Laos," wood block print poster. Sponsored by Women Together, circa late 1960s or early 1970s

Bread and Roses Women's Liberation Conference. Poster. 1970.

Bread and Roses Women's Liberation poster, 1970

Flyer for UCSC Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA). Circa late 1970s.

UCSC Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) flyer, circa late 1970s

Women Together flyer for women's liberation meeting at Stevenson College Jolly Room. November 17, 1971.

Women Together flyer for women's liberation meeting at the Stevenson College Jolly Room, 1971

"Woman Show" feminist theater. Barn Theater. February 1973. Poster.

"Woman Show" feminist theater poster. Barn Theater, February 1973

Poster for a concert produced for the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic Chamber Group as a Women's Studies Senior Project in 1983.

Poster for a concert produced for the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic Chamber Group as a Women's Studies senior project, 1983.

Miss California contest. In center in black bathing suit is Mary Black (Miss Santa Cruz) in 1924. Left: Frances Fargo (Harvey). 1924.

Miss California contest, 1924

Miss California Parade Car, Watsonville, California. 1947.

Miss California Parade Car, 1947

Video: Miss California, 1955

Video: Myth California Protests 1980-1988

Archives--UCSC Library Special Collections

  • Out in the Redwoods GLBT Archival Collection (UA 27) 
  • UCSC Feminist Studies Department Records

Oral histories

  • Out in the Redwoods GLBT Oral History of UCSC

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