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Collection
Identifier: MC 1461
Repository:
New Brunswick Special Collections
Abstract:
Begun in 1985, the Guerilla Girls art collective was composed of women artists, queer women artists, and women artists of color who called themselves the conscience of the art world. Their printed posters and their protests used humor to highlight sexism and racism in the art world. Later, their posters' topics would expand to include unrelated political issues. This collection of Guerrilla Girls posters, which includes examples of both subject types, consists of 32 original posters created...
Collection
Identifier: MC 1434
Repository:
New Brunswick Special Collections
Abstract:
The New Jersey Women's Equity Action League existed from 1971 through 1981 as a division of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL). The New Jersey division worked to end sex-segregated classified advertisements, to increase the number of women students in veterinary schools, to monitor the records of pharmaceutical companies in employing women (as well as their depiction of women in medical journal advertising), to fight discriminatory credit policies, to study the number of women employed...