Nancy Stoller Papers, 1981-1995
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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7c6029zb No online items Finding Aid to the Nancy Stoller Papers, 1981-1995 Finding Aid written by Julia Bazar and Josue Hurtado Funding for processing this collection was provided by The National Historical Publications and Records Commission UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special Collections University of California, San Francisco 530 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94143-0840 Phone: (415) 476-8112 Fax: (415) 476-4653 Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/contactform.html URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/ © 2007 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid to the Nancy Stoller MSS 2000-6 1 Papers, 1981-1995 Finding Aid to the Nancy Stoller Papers, 1981-1995 Collection Number: MSS 2000-6 UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special CollectionsFunding for processing this collection was provided by The National Historical Publications and Records Commission Finding Aid Written By: Julia Bazar and Josue Hurtado Date Completed: June 2007 © 2007 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: Nancy Stoller papers Date (inclusive): 1981-1995 Collection Number: MSS 2000-6 Creator : Stoller, Nancy E. Extent: Number of containers: 9 cartons, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folderLinear feet: 14 Repository: The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special Collections University of California, San Francisco 530 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94143-0840 Phone: (415) 476-8112 Fax: (415) 476-4653 Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/contactform.html URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/ Abstract: This collection contains the research and writing files Nancy Stoller [who also worked under the name Nancy Shaw], as well as posters, a large pamphlet file, and other ephemera. The bulk of the collection focuses on Stoller's AIDS research for the book, Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to AIDS. There is also material connected to, Women Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment, the book she co-edited with Beth E. Schneider. There are also some examples of her work on healthcare for prisoners and Latinas and breast cancer. Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/ . Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manager of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Nancy Stoller Papers, MSS 2000-6, The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco. Alternate Forms Available There are no alternate forms of this collection. Indexing Terms Finding Aid to the Nancy Stoller MSS 2000-6 2 Papers, 1981-1995 The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects AIDS (Disease) in women AIDS (Disease)--Prevention ACT UP New York (Organization) Intravenous drug abuse--Prevention San Francisco AIDS Foundation Cal-Pep (Organization) Stoller, Nancy E Acquisition Information The collection was given to the Library in two parts - The bulk of the material in October 1999, and the rest given in July of 2002. Carton 9 and the oversize box were received in 2013. They are unprocessed. System of Arrangement Arranged to the folder level. Carton 9 and the oversize box were received as an addition in 2013 and are unprocessed and not included in the finding aid. Processing Information Processed by Julia Bazar in January 2005 Biographical Information Nancy Elaine Stoller was born in 1942 in Newport News, Virginia. In 1960 she left Virginia to attend Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she earned an A.B. in Philosophy in 1963. She went on to earn her M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1972) in Sociology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. From 1978-1980 she was a Post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. Stoller started her job at University of California (UC) Santa Cruz in 1973 and received tenure in 1987 after having filed a gender discrimination suit against the University. Stoller worked and published under her married name, Nancy Shaw, for many years before reclaiming Stoller in the 1990s. Along with her work on AIDS, Stoller's research has focused on women, prisoners, and health care. Stoller became involved with the civil rights movement during her first year of college. She was involved in local actions in Wellesley and Boston during the school year and worked with the Washington D.CIRCA area Non-violent Action Group (DC-NAG) during the summer. Later she became involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and did organizing work in Maryland and Arkansas. Her activism continued throughout her life. In a recent, short, online biography she states: I have been involved in various social change movements: anti-racism, feminism, anti-apartheid work, queer organizing, women's health activism, working on changing prison conditions, prison abolition, and so on. After a brief marriage to Kevin (Kwame) Shaw (1966-1972) and the birth of her daughter, Gwendolyn, in 1968, Stoller came out as a lesbian. She was one of the first openly lesbian professors at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and was outed internationally during her tenure fight. Between her dismissal from UC Santa Cruz in 1984 and her reinstatement in 1987, Stoller worked as the Women's Program Development Director within the Education Department of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) from 1984 to 1987. While there she was involved with a number of projects including heterosexual focus groups, the drafting of a number of pamphlets, and the organization of women's support groups. This work led to further interactions with a variety of community based AIDS organizations. She did a formal participant/observer study of the New York City ACT-UP chapter in the fall/winter of 1989. She went to meetings and demonstrations, including the St. Patrick's Cathedral demonstration held in the December of that year. Stoller also spent significant time working with Cal-PEP, the California Prostitutes Education Project, an AIDS prevention and education organization founded and run by prostitutes and former prostitutes to prevent the spread of AIDS within that community. Stoller served as an advisor to the Executive Director of the organization, as well as doing a stint on the Board of Directors. Other groups that she had contact with during this period include: Prevention Point, a Needle Exchange program working with Intravenous (IV) Drug Users; the Women's AIDS Network (WAN), and Women's AIDS Risk Network (WARN). Stoller translated her experience working for SFAF and her interest in other AIDS related community organizations into two books on AIDS - Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to AIDS published in 1998 and Women Finding Aid to the Nancy Stoller MSS 2000-6 3 Papers, 1981-1995 Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (1995) co-edited by Stoller with Beth E. Schneider of UC Santa Barbara. Stoller wrote the chapter on "Lesbian Involvement in the AIDS Epidemic: Changing Roles and Generational Differences" in Women Resisting AIDS After returning to the UCSC campus she has taught classes in Transgressive Sexualities and Genders, Health and Human Rights in Prison, and Theory and Practice of Sexual Politics. The majority of Stoller's ongoing research has been into the treatment of women prisoners, especially in relation to medical care. She was also involved in an outreach study on breast cancer in the Latina community. As of 2005 Stoller is still teaching at UCSC and living in San Francisco. Scope and Content of Collection This collection consists predominantly of the research files used by Nancy Stoller in the writing of two books and a number of academic papers, and in teaching at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). A high percentage of the collection is secondary source material including: newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly papers, documents (primarily minutes, publications, and other administrative or publicity materials) from a variety of community based, AIDS related organizations; a few posters; and a very extensive pamphlet collection. Primary documents include: drafts and published versions of papers written or co-written by Stoller, drafts of chapters and correspondence from Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to AIDS, correspondence connected to Women Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (1995), various handwritten notes, and two participant-observer notebooks from her