Collection Overview
Leghorn, Lisa
Lisa Leghorn Papers
1966-1982
MS 270
3 boxes
(1.5 linear ft.)
English
Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, MA
Author, Feminist. The Lisa Leghorn Papers consist of her research files, organized by subject. Types of material include articles, notes, correspondence, published and unpublished writings, and printed material. The files relate to her books on women and development; woman and hunger; women, economics and housework. There are also materials on battered women (including Laura X case); women's rights in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean and the U.S.; and the International Women's Year Conference in Houston in 1977.
Biographical Note
Feminist and author Lisa Leghorn received her Master's degree from Goddard College. She is the author of
Social Responses to Battered Women (1976), co-author of Who really starves? : Women and World Hunger (Lisa Leghorn and Mary Roodkowsky, 1977); Woman's Worth: Sexual Economics and the World of Women (Lisa Leghorn and Katherine Parker, 1981); and co-author (with Betsy Warrior) of Houseworker's Handbook (1974), as well as numerous published articles. In the 1970's Leghorn worked with Transition House, a battered women's shelter in Boston.
No further biographical information is available at this time.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Lisa Leghorn Papers consist of her research files, organized by subject. Types of material include articles, notes, correspondence, published and unpublished writings, and printed material. The files relate to her books on women and development; woman and hunger; women, economics and housework. There are also materials on battered women (including Laura X case); women's rights in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean and the U.S.; and the International Women's Year Conference in Houston in 1977.
The Papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection without any additional restrictions.
Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
"Lisa Leghorn Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass."
Lisa Leghorn donated her Papers to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1987. Periodic additions to this collection are expected and may not be included in this record.
Preliminary processing done by Annie-Sage Whitehurst, Fraenkel intern, 2009.
Leghorn, Lisa
Feminists -- United States -- Biography -- Sources
Food supply -- Developing countries
Hunger -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
National Women's Conference (1st: 1977: Houston, Tex.)
Women -- Economic conditions
Women in development -- International cooperation -- History -- Sources
Women -- International cooperation -- History -- Sources
Women -- Nutrition -- Social aspects
Women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century - Sources
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"Baby Bottle": periodical, resources list and clippings1975-1978
Battered women
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Miscellaneous periodicals1977-1983
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Leghorn's "Social Responses to Battered Women"1976
Early feminist movement
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4
Published material: clippings, periodicals, and mailings1966-1978
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5
Writing1966-1978
Housework
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6
Clippings, papers, pamphlets and periodicals1973-1980
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1
Writing1973-1980
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International Women's Year Conference (Houston): mailings and printed material1975-1977
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3
Women and development: official reports, clippings, pamphlets and a paper1975-1980
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4
Women and economics, paid work and financial independence: clippings and articles1975-1982
Women and global culture
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5
Cross-culturally and internationally: clippings and articles1974-1981
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Egalitarian societies: papers, clippings and booklets1975-1977, n.d.
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Africa: clippings, papers, booklets, periodicals1975-1976, n.d.
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Asia: mailings, clippings, periodicals1973-1980, n.d.
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Women in the Carribean, China and Cuba: printed material, mailings1974-1978
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Women in Latin America: publications1975-1978, n.d.
Women and hunger
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Paper, periodicals1973-1977
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"Women in a Hungry World" packet1979
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Periodicals
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Women: A Journal of Liberation (vol.3, no.4)n.d.
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No More Fun and Games / The Female State: A Journal of Female Liberation (issues 2-5)1969-1971