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September 15, 1980

Dear

Enclosed is a prospective program for the Conference on Women's Culture in American Society, to be held in Los Angeles [[strikethrough]] between [[/strikethrough]] on March 20th and 21st 1981. The conference has been funded by the California Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are interested in editing a volume of papers presented at this conference, and would like to invite you to act as a consultant for this publication.

[This conference has been designed to promote the greater understanding of female experience by illuminating the relations between public institutions and male and female culture and experience. Designed to attract an array of interests, the program offers a wide appeal to men and women of diverse ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds. This conference will present a public forum whereby community activists and sociologists will discuss current social movements, historians will discuss modes of resistance and accommodation in historical perspective, and urban planners, writers and designers will illustrate the development of social space as an artistic and cultural expression (of need & diversity change.) The conference will provide a unique opportunity for the dissemination of work of community activists, scholars, designers and writers to the general public. Following the conference, the project editors will prepare a manuscript composed of papers from the conference. This manuscript will be submitted for publication, thereby further expanding the long range impact and constituency of the program.

[The conference objective is the identification of the diversity and commonality of female experience as identified by class, race and ethnicity between 1880 and 1980. The theme of the conference is an examination of female culture to address the following question: Under what conditions Do women share more in common with the experience of other women of different classes, ethnicities and races, or [[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]] do they share [[note]] several testimonial [[/note]] more in common with men of the same class, ethnicity and race? ]
[[right margin]] Inclusion in the volume dependent on how the question is addressed. [[/right margin]]

1 {There is no place where this ? is addressed and persued. Focuses on this question [[strikethrough]] We feel that [[/strikethrough]] The planned publication of conference papers and manuscript material which addresses the history of underdocumented minority women [[strikethrough]] and offers [[/strikethrough]] as well as women's work, political and community organizing, female labor force participation and the sex-gender system would make a valuable contribution to scholarly publications on women's history. }

Examples of three Three anthologies recently have been published which include American numerous articles regarding the female actors in historical perspective. Michael Gordon's two [[strikethrough]] volumes [[/strikethrough]] editions of The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective, published by St. Martin's Press in 1973 and 1978 has several articles which address

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