[Speaking: International Women's Year 1975 - International Women's Year (IWY) Encounter, UN Headquarters, 7 March 1975]

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900006Scope and ContentContains: International Women's Year (IWY) conference folder: Blue folder labelled Ms Germaine Greer with information and reference material concerning Greer's participation in the International Women's Year (IWY) Encounter, UN Headquarters, 7 March 1975, plus loose bundle of printed resource material (duplicates some material in blue folder). Includes official IWY Bulletins No. 1 July 1974, No. 2 October 1974; United Nations (UN) brochures and information sheets on IWY; UN Economic and Social Council circulars; IWY sticker "Get moving"; reimbursement of expenses vouchers; issue of UNICEF News; roneod circular, Petition on Women's Rights in the United Nations; photocopies of press clippings, 'Giant raspberry from Germaine', The Advertiser 7 February 1975, re criticism of upcoming 7 March 1975 "think tank of women's liberationists''. Some correspondence and notes are interleaved in blue folder, mainly requests from other delegates or journalists to meet with Greer; draft of letter to Gay Clifton (2p), begins: "Imagine a huge cavern gouged out of the East River Bank, lit with the shadowless glow of multi-million dollar bureaucracy...", (then mainly about planting lilium bulbs). Correspondents include: Germaine Greer; Ben Goffman, Nation Review; Agnes (no last name); Davidson Nicol, UN Institute for Training and Research; Bernard Hosie, The Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific; Merle Goldberg, National Women's Health Coalition. Subjects: United Nations; International Women's Year, 1975; Lectures and lecturing;Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0001

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date1974-1975

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Previous System ID2017.0009.00006

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[Speaking: International Women's Year 1975 - International Women's Year (IWY) Encounter, UN Headquarters, 7 March 1975]