Kassell, Paula, Papers, (WUNP6192)

PRELIMINARY INVENTORY

5.15 linear feet

Correspondence, speeches, clippings, photographs, and other papers of a feminist and founder/editor of New Directions for Women, a nonprofit periodical that covered the women's movement from 1971-1993.

Box 1

• Feminist press conference, 1973
• AWID conference fiasco, 1989
• Bio sketches for publication
• Who’s Who
• Speeches for Whippany Women Speakers, 1962-1966
• Barnard College
• PSK projects
• Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship application (not accepted), 1983
• International Women’s Year National Conference, Houston, November 1977
• JAWS stocks
• JAWS misc.
• Ad sales coop—info from periodicals
• Ad coop advisory board
• Woman Reach Advertising Group ad coop, 1980
• Feminist periodicals ad coop—national exhibit, 1980
• Affirmative Action Conference (NOW), 1972
• Women’s International Press Service (WIPS)
• Being trashed by Morristown area NOW, 1972
• Miscellaneous interesting correspondence
• Mags and rags—East Coast periodicals caucus, 1985
• Miscellaneous

Box 2

• All-male organizations/Jaycees—clippings
• National Committee on Pay Equity
• Economic Equality Issue Committee
• Women’s Media Initiative
• New York Times
  • Correspondence re. use of sexist language
  • Use of “Ms.”
  • Discrimination suit and stockholder meetings
  • Influence other than use of “Ms.” and employment discrimination suit
  • Miscellaneous
• Publicity
• Bona Fide Occupation Qualification (BFOQ)
• Employment/Help wanted ads
• Investigative Reporters & Editors meeting in states that did not ratify ERA, 1978
• Investigative Reporters & Editors National Conference, 1979
• Conferences
  • NOW Affirmative Action for Women, 1972
  • East Coast Periodicals Caucus, 1985
  • How To Market Your Talents and Writings in Books, Newspapers And Magazines, 1976
  • NOW NJ—Woman’s Body/Woman’s Mind, 1973

Box 2 (cont.)

• Women & The New Professions of the 70s, Stevens Inst. Of Tech., 1972
• Women Gathering/Barbara Uttman Circle, c. 1984, 1985
• Woman Power—A Force For Change, 1972
• Women In Print, 1985
• Women In Print, 1981
• Various

• Miscellaneous feminist projects
• Representative of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press at the United Nations Department of Public Information
• Ernst-Van Praag project on corporate seminars, 1972
• National Women’s Hall of Fame fund raiser, 1990
• Trip to England/speaking engagement, London, 1989
• Talks—speeches, 1970s-1990s (3 folders)

Box 3

• Talks—correspondence
• Bell System—directory, P.O. box, women’s names
• NJ Bell directory, P.O. box listings
• Woman Gathering-Aphra Behn Circle
• Intro to Women’s Media section-Burrelle’s Media Directories, 1979
• National Organization For Women (NOW) leadership/membership development
• Census-Women of the World, Latin America and the Caribbean, 1985, 1986
• Requests for NOW-AIDS (Actions that Individuals can Do)
• NOW-AIDS—correspondence, etc.
• NOW-AIDS—blank forms
• NOW-AIDS ideas
• Appliance repair
• Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press—conferences, 1970s-1990s (13 f.)
• International Copenhagen Conference
• International Women’s Year (IWY) Conference, 1977 (2 f.)
• Veteran Feminists of America
• Feminist friends house parties—photos, correspondence
• Birthday celebrations 75th through 90—photos, cards, invitations

Box 4

• Manuscripts
  • Chapter on New Directions for Women in Women Transforming Communications
  • Chapter in Communications at the Crossroads (2 f.)
• Activities and writings
• Awards—certificates, correspondence, photos, plaques (6 f.)
• Journalism scrapbook, Yonkers High School, 1930s
• Autograph book, 1931
• Diary, c. 1930s
• Calendars, 1972-1982, 1984-1999, 2003, 2005-2007

Box 5

• Miscellaneous, c. 1930s
• College papers—sociology, psychology, music, art, 1930s (2 f.)
• Bios/vitas
• Birth story
• Miscellaneous non-feminist personal information
• Application for security clearance at Bell Labs, 1955

Last updated: January 22, 2013