Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documents on the history of American women. Smith College's Sophia Smith collection is the only comparable library, but it does not approach the Schlesinger in either size or variety. Much of the material rejected by conventional book collections because it seemed concerned only with minor facets of social history is now housed at Schlesinger...
King says the library was rarely used until the rise of the women's movement in the late 1960 s. At present, 80 to 85 per cent of the visitors are women, although King, herself a social historian, notes an increase in use by male social history researchers...
Despite the tea-party atmosphere, though, the library takes itself very seriously as a women's institution. The emphasis of the collection, as befits its origins, is still very much on feminism and specialized in the suffrage movement, professional women, and social welfare. The library also tries to keep its magazine collection comprehensive, with periodicals ranging from the nineteenth-century Godey's Lady's Book, with recipes and fashions to today's Black Belt Woman...
...focus of the library will probably change as the history of women is incorporated into general history, King remarks. Social history will become more important to the Schlesinger. "We're not all that different from other social history libraries," she observes. "They've just been neglecting the women's part in social history" and the Schlesinger tries to compensate...
...theme of the conferences--conducted in life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences--was "the re-evaluation of existing values and the search for absolute values." In addition to the 65 scholars sitting on discussion panels, another 400 came to participate. They talked about achieving new values in society, redefining the word "progress," and developing eternal, absolute values...