A "Womyn's" Work is Never Done: The Gendered Division of Labor and the Creation of Southern Oregon Lesbian Separatist Communities

dc.contributor.authorGrosjean, Shelley
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-21T21:46:38Z
dc.date.available2011-03-21T21:46:38Z
dc.date.issued2011-03-21
dc.descriptionSubmitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2010-11. 40 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper is based on primary source historical research in several collections in the Knight Library at the University of Oregon, including the SOCLAP Collection, the Tee Corinne Papers and the Ruth Mountaingrove Collection, which all contain documentation about the formation of lesbian separatist intentional communities in southern Oregon in the 1970’s. These communities were built from the ground up, by women who were going “back to the land” in order to create rural female centered lives. While predominantly raised in traditionally gendered households, the women who populated these lands transcended the traditional roles of women and through skill sharing and creativity were able to build and maintain their new country lives. Broadly, their experience in the isolated hills of southern Oregon is connected to the social radicalism of the 1960’s and 1970’s. It is a prime example of the intersection of several of these movements, including the back to the land movement, the emerging environmental movement, the women’s liberation movement and the gay liberation movement of the 1970’s.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/11043
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.subjectSouthern Oregonen_US
dc.subjectLesbian separatistsen_US
dc.subjectUtopian communitiesen_US
dc.subjectBack-to-the-land movementen_US
dc.subjectWomanShare Collectiveen_US
dc.subjectLesbian community -- Oregon
dc.titleA "Womyn's" Work is Never Done: The Gendered Division of Labor and the Creation of Southern Oregon Lesbian Separatist Communitiesen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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