wa00013. Women, Politics, and the Law
Record Group
Identifier: wa00013
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dates:
1988-1993
Black Hawk County Women's Political Caucus records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0734
Abstract
Organized in 1973, members supported a number of feminist initiatives including economic equalty and the ERA.
Dates:
1973-1980; 1973-1980
Campaign to Add Women to the Iowa Constitution records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0400
Abstract
Organization formed to work for passage of Iowa state ERA.
Dates:
1978-1998
Cecile Cooper papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0006
Abstract
Civil rights worker in Davenport.
Dates:
1964-1998
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Cecile Cooper papers
Democratic Activist Women's Network, District 1 records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0602
Abstract
Organization created to recruit, educate, and elect Democratic women to public office in Iowa.
Dates:
1981-2009
Dorothy Carpenter papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0278
Abstract
Republican who served in Iowa House of Representatives from 1980 to 1994.
Dates:
1979-1995
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Dorothy Carpenter papers
Elaine Szymoniak papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0166
Abstract
Iowa State senator, Des Moines City Council member, and hearing and speech consultant.
Dates:
1974-2004
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Elaine Szymoniak papers
ERA Iowa 1992 records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0305
Abstract
Grassroots campaign initiated in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1991 to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa constitution in the 1992 election.
Dates:
1980-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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ERA Iowa 1992 records
Iowa Commission on the Status of Women records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0175
Abstract
The records include publications, legislative correspondence and the Write Women Back into History essays of middle and high school students in Iowa.
Dates:
1977-
Iowa ERA Coalition records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0011
Abstract
Organization to promote passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
Dates:
1916-1980; 1978-1980
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Iowa ERA Coalition records
Iowa Women Against the Equal Rights Amendment records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0018
Abstract
Grassroots organization opposed to Iowa's ratification of the ERA to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
Dates:
1972-1980
Iowa Women's Equality Campaign records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0629
Abstract
The organization formed in 1992 to work for passage of the state ERA in Iowa.
Dates:
1975-1992
Iowa Women's Political Caucus records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0019
Abstract
Organization to promote the advancement of women in politics.
Dates:
1972-1999
Jane Christoffer Rubel papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0346
Abstract
High school bascketball player who sued the Iowa Girl's High School Athletic Union to be allowed to play on the school team after
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1971-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Jane Christoffer Rubel papers
Janis Torrence-Laughlin papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0125
Abstract
Muscatine County Supervisor from 1976 to 1982 and Representative in the Iowa Legislature from 1983 to 1985.
Dates:
1976-1990
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Janis Torrence-Laughlin papers
Johnson County ERA Coalition records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0138
Abstract
Organized in Iowa City to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution of the state of Iowa.
Arrangement "New Strategies, Old Obstacles in the Fight for Equality: An Analysis of the 1992 Iowa ERA Referendum Campaign," is shelved in the Iowa Women's Archives printed works collection (fHQ.1236.5.U6 F45 1993).
Arrangement "New Strategies, Old Obstacles in the Fight for Equality: An Analysis of the 1992 Iowa ERA Referendum Campaign," is shelved in the Iowa Women's Archives printed works collection (fHQ.1236.5.U6 F45 1993).
Dates:
1984-1993
Kathleen Halloran Chapman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0263
Abstract
Attorney and Democrat who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and again in 1996.
Dates:
1977-1999
League of Women Voters of Sioux City records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0229
Scope and Contents
The League of Women Voters of Sioux City records date from 1978 to 1993 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper clippings from the Sioux City Journal and the Des Moines Register chronicling local debates in the late 1970s about Sioux City's urban renewal and city government structure. Clippings on how other Iowa cities were handling these issues in their communities are included. The home rule...
Dates:
1978-1993
Lena Belle Bock papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0118
Abstract
Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1960 to 1964.
Dates:
1960-1981
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Lena Belle Bock papers
Linda Kinney Neuman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0532
Abstract
Served for over twenty years in the Iowa judiciary and was the first woman to be appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Dates:
1975-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Linda Kinney Neuman papers