Inventory of the Margaret Anne O'Connor Papers, 1972-1989

Collection Number 5104


Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Related Collections
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
Processed by
Jaime L. Margalotti
Date Processed
September 2003
Encoded by
Jaime L. Margalotti
Date Encoded
September 2003
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
Southern Historical Collection
Creator
O'Connor, Margaret Anne.
Title
Margaret Anne O'Connor Papers, 1972-1989
Call Number
5104
Extent
About 500 items (1.0 linear feet)
Abstract
Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972 and helped form the Women's Studies curriculum. Throughout her career she continued to teach courses relating to women at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The collection includes files on organizations with which Margaret O'Connor was involved and publications relating to women's organizations and issues. Organizational materials are letters, minutes of meetings, brochures, and other materials from organizations supporting women faculty, affirmative action, and related course work. Organizations include the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the She newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items. Printed materials include newspaper clippings about national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the She newsletter; and other publications.
Language
English.


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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Provenance
Received from Margaret Anne O'Connor of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., in October 2002 (Acc. 99339).
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Margaret Anne O'Connor Papers #5104, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Affirmative action programs--North Carolina.
American Association of University Professors.
Discrimination in higher education--North Carolina.
O'Connor, Margaret Anne.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Association for Women Faculty.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Association of Women Students. Women's Forum.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Status of Women Committee.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Women's Studies Advisory Board.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University Women for Affirmative Action.
She (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
Women college students--North Carolina.
Women college teachers--North Carolina.
Women in higher education--North Carolina.
Women's rights--North Carolina.
Women's studies--North Carolina.
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Related Collections

Records of the American Association of University Professors, UNC-Chapel Hill Chapter (#40172);
Records of the Association for Women Faculty (#40177);
Records of the University Women for Affirmative Action (#40202);
Records of the Women's Concern Coalition (#40206);
Records of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Status of Women Committee (#40106).
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Biographical Note

Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972. She later regularly taught classes in Women in American Literature, American Expatriate Women Writers, and Southern Women Writers at the undergraduate level as Women's Studies courses cross-listed with both English and American Studies. At the graduate level, she taught Reconstructing American Literature in the mid-1980s. She was a member of the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Association for Women Faculty; and the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students. Outside the University, she was active in professional women's organizations; in the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; the American Association of University Professors, for which she chaired Committee W for several years in the 1970s; and the Modern Language Association.

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Collection Overview

The collection includes files on organizations with which University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill English professor Margaret O'Connor was involved and publications relating to women's organizations and issues. Organizational materials are letters, minutes of meetings, brochures, and other materials from organizations supporting women faculty, affirmative action, and related course work. Organizations include the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the She newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items. Printed materials include newspaper clippings about national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the She newsletter; and other publications.

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Organization of Collection

1. Organizational Materials
2. Printed Materials

Detailed Description of the Collection

1. Organizational Materials, 1972-1989.

About 400 items.
Materials relating to women's organizations that supported women faculty, affirmative action, and related coursework with which Margaret O'Connor was involved. Organizations include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the She newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items.
Folder 1
American Association of University Professors (Committee W), 1973-1977 and undated
Folder 2-4
Association for Women Faculty, 1980-1985
Folder 5-7
Status of Women Committee, 1973-1977 and undated
Folder 8
University Women for Affirmative Action, 1972-1976
Folder 9-12
Women's Forum, 1973-1980 and undated
Folder 13-20
Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1973-1989

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2. Printed Materials, 1972-1984 and undated.

About 100 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Newspaper clippings about both national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the She newsletter, published by the Association of Women Students, for women on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus; and other publications by women's organizations and about women's issues.
Folder 21
Clippings, 1972-1984 and undated
Folder 22
She newsletter, 1973-1978
Folder 23
Miscellaneous publications, 1973

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