Anne Fausto-Sterling Papers , 1960-1991


John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title: Anne Fausto-Sterling papers
Date range: 1960-1991
Creator: Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 1944-
Extent: 3.75 Linear feet
Abstract: The papers document Brown University's establishment of an affirmative action program for faculty hiring and promotion under the conditions laid out in the consent decree. Although the consent decree was concerned primarily with sex discrimination, issues of minority recruitment and hiring are also covered in the records. This collection also provides information about the early work of the Committee on Women Faculty (1971-1977), the status of women faculty on campus, early courses in women's studies, and women and minorities in science at Brown.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number: MS.1UF.F1

Scope & content

The folder titles are virtually all Anne Fausto-Sterling's. Each series is arranged in rough chronological order and includes correspondence, reports, proposals, articles, etc. The series containing committee records often also include related material collected by Fausto-Sterling, sometimes after her service on the committee ended.

The papers document Brown University's establishment of an affirmative action program for faculty hiring and promotion under the conditions laid out in the consent decree. Although the consent decree was concerned primarily with sex discrimination, issues of minority recruitment and hiring are also covered in the records. This collection also provides information about the early work of the Committee on Women Faculty (1971-1977), the status of women faculty on campus, early courses in women's studies, and women and minorities in science at Brown.

Access Points

Subject Organizations Subject Topics Occupations Document Types Subject Topics

Arrangement

This collection is organized into series:

  • I. Committee on Women Faculty, 1971-1977
  • II. Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, 1976-1988
  • III. Class representatives, negotiations to discontinue, 1988-1991
  • IV. Courses, 1960-1989
  • V. Women's studies and the Pembroke Center, 1973-1988
  • VI. Other committees and subject files, 1960-1986
  • VII. Student protests, 1981-1985

Biographical note

Anne Sterling was born in Queens, New York on July 30th, 1944 to Philip and Dorothy Sterling. As a self-named "red-diaper baby," Fausto-Sterling became an activist early in life, primarily involved with peace, civil rights and women's liberation movements. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Wisconsin with a major in zoology. Following college graduation in 1965, Fausto-Sterling moved to Providence, Rhode Island to become a doctoral student in developmental genetics at Brown University. In 1972, she became Assistant Professor in Medical Science at Brown, primarily teaching courses in embryology. Six years later, Fausto-Sterling was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 1986, was granted full professorship. She is now Professor of Biology and Gender Studies and holds the Nancy Duke Lewis Chair.

Over the past thirty-seven years, Fausto-Sterling has developed numerous courses such as, "The Biology of Gender," "Vertebrate Embryology," "History of Embryology and Genetics in 20th Century US," and "Social Issues in Biology." In 2002-2003, Fausto-Sterling directed the Pembroke Center's research seminar on "Theories of Embodiment." Fausto-Sterling has been a visiting faculty member at many institutions, including Harvard University/Radcliffe College, Stanford University, Northwestern University, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Amsterdam.

In 1985, Fausto-Sterling published Myths of Gender. The book drew great attention from both the academy and the mainstream media and a 2nd edition was released in 1992, translated into multiple languages. Fausto-Sterling's 1993 article, "The Five Sexes," published in Sciences again drew great amounts of attention and an Honorable Mention in The Best American Essays of 1994. Sexing the Body, released in 2000, won the Robert K. Melton Award from the American Sociological Association and the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology. Fausto-Sterling was the general editor of the series, "Race, Gender, and Science" from Indiana University Press and has published numerous book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews in both academic journals and mainstream publications.

Fausto-Sterling has served on the editorial boards of NWSA Journal, Signs, Journal of Homosexuality, Women's Review of Books, Perspectives on Biology and Medicine, and Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy. She has been an external reviewer for tenure committees around the country and a manuscript reviewer for both journals and book publishers. Fausto-Sterling has lectured and participated in conferences around the country and in Europe, as well as participated in a number of documentary films. She is a member of a number of associations such as, The Association for Women in Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Developmental Biology, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, and National Women's Studies Association.

Throughout her life, Fausto-Sterling has also been involved with many activist organizations around Rhode Island, the country, and the world - primarily around issues of peace, non-nuclear proliferation, women's rights, LGBT issues, and Latin American revolutionary movements and human rights.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: Portions of the collection are restricted. Many folders in Series II contain sensitive material and will be closed for five or ten years after the year in which the records were created, as noted in the inventory. Many folders or parts of folders, particularly in Series II and III, are closed for a longer period because they contain personnel and tenure information about candidates and faculty members. Such folders will be closed until after the death of, or 90 years after the approximate birth of the individuals who are the subjects of those folders. Files closed for longer than ten years after their date of creation may become open but restricted after ten years with the permission of the University Archivist.
Use of the materials: Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Anne Fausto-Sterling papers, MS-1UF-F1, Brown University Archives.
Contact information: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Anne Fausto-Sterling donated these papers to the Brown University Archives in early 1992. She donated a small addendum in February 1993.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Brown University Library staff.
Encoding: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013 January 23
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sponsor: Processing funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Additional Information

Inventory


Series I. Committee on Women Faculty, 1971-1977

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder I.1-2 Reports and miscellany
Contents Note: Two folders. Includes "Proposal for the Sarah Doyle Center" by the Working Group on the Status of Women at Brown.

1971-1975
Box 1, Folder I.3 Statistics
1971-1975
Box 1, Folder I.4-5 Affirmative Action
Contents Note: Two folders.

1972-1975
Box 1, Folder I.6 Lusk, Joan
1972-1974
Box 1, Folder I.7 Lusk, Joan
1973-1974
Box 1, Folder I.8 Lusk, Joan
Contents Note: Files of

1974
Box 1, Folder I.9 Reports
Contents Note: Marked "Old reports."

1973-1974
Box 1, Folder I.10 Durand, Laura G.
Access restrictions:

Some material in this file is CLOSED until January 1, 2020.


1974
Box 1, Folder I.11 Lamphere, Louise, and related issues
1974-1975
Box 2, Folder I.12 Job openings/recruiting
1974-1975
Box 2, Folder I.13 Benefits
Contents Note: Most re: health care

1974-1976
Box 2, Folder I.14 Annual report, letter re: Third World Coalition
Contents Note: Was marked "Lamphere." Letter is from Acting President Merton P. Stolz to the University Community.

1975-1977
Box 2, Folder I.15 Newsletter, correspondence
1977

Series II. Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, 1976-1988

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder II.1 First Amended Complaint - Class Action
Contents Note: Also includes "Notice of Pendency of Class Action..."

1976
Box 3, Folder II.41 Articles re: Lamphere case
1977
Box 2, Folder II.2 Court opinions and orders
1978; 1976
Box 2, Folder II.2a Consent Decree
Contents Note: Includes "early draft."

1977
Box 2, Folder II.3 Faculty Policy Group
Contents Note: Amicus curiae

1978
Box 2, Folder II.4 Meetings notices, miscellaneous information
1978
Box 2, Folder II.5-8 Hiring, promotion, and general information
Contents Note: Four folders. Removed from a notebook with the following dividers: General correspondence Teaching evaluations and criteria for hiring and promotion; Staffing plans/notification of promotion and contract renewal; Maurice Glicksman re: general procedures.

1978-1979
Box 2, Folder II.9 Hiring plans and searches
Contents Note: Removed from a notebook. Marked "1."

1978-1979
Box 2, Folder II.10 Teaching evaluations
Contents Note: Re: departmental policies. Removed from a notebook

1978-1979
Box 3, Folder II.42 Bio-med case
Contents Note: From folder marked "Pat Russian"

1977, undated
Box 2, Folder II.11 Bio-med case
Access restrictions:

Plaintiff's response to defendant's interrogatories. Marked "first draft." CLOSED until January 1, 2040.


1976?
Box 2, Folder II.11a Bio-med case
Contents Note: Brief by Jordan Stanzler

1978
Box 3, Folder II.12-14 Bio-med case
Contents Note: Three folders. Removed from a notebook.

1978-1979
Box 6, Folder II.15-18 Reviews of hiring, contract renewal and promotion
Contents Note: Four folders. Removed from a notebook. Filed by department.

Access restrictions:

CLOSED until January 1, 2040.


1978-1979
Box 6, Folder II.19-20 Minutes of meetings, agendas
Contents Note: Two folders. Removed from a notebook. March 6, 1978 - June 18, 1979.

Access restrictions:

CLOSED until January 1, 2030.


1978-1979
Box 3, Folder II.21 Report covering March-September
1979
Box 3, Folder II.22 Complaints--TIAA-CREF
1979
Box 6, Folder II.23 American Civilization--Contested hiring of Richard Alan Meckel
Contents Note: Removed from a notebook.

Access restrictions:

CLOSED until January 1, 2040.


1979
Box 6, Folder II.24 Review of hiring, contract renewal and promotion
Contents Note: Removed from a notebook. Filed by department.

Access restrictions:

CLOSED until January 1, 2040.


1979-1980
Box 6, Folder II.25-26 Review of hiring?
Contents Note: Seven folders. From boxes labeled only by date. Some re: challenges filed with the court under the consent decree.

Access restrictions:

CLOSED until January 1, 2040.


1979-1980
Box 7, Folder II.27-31 Review of hiring? (continued)
Contents Note: Seven folders. From boxes labeled only by date. Some re: challenges filed with the court under the consent decree.

Access restrictions:

CLOSED until January 1, 2040.


1979-1980
Box 7, Folder II.32 Review of hiring?
Contents Note: Three folders. From box labeled only by date. Some re: challenges filed with the court under the consent decree.

Access restrictions:

Closed until January 1, 2040.


1980-1981
Box 8, Folder II.33-34 Review of hiring? (continued)
Contents Note: Three folders. From box labeled only by date. Some re: challenges filed with the court under the consent decree. CLOSED until January 1, 2040.

1980-1981
Box 3, Folder II.35 Ann Seidman case
Contents Note: Equal Times article

1980
Box 3, Folder II.36 Ann Seidman case
Contents Note: Court opinion

1985
Box 3, Folder II.37 Ann Seidman case
Contents Note: Plaintiff's Brief on Appeal

1988
Box 3, Folder II.38 Ann Seidman case
Contents Note: Court opinion

1988
Box 8, Folder II.39 Goals and timetables
Contents Note: Correspondence. Includes some from Louise Lamphere.

Access restrictions:

Closed until January 1, 1996.


1986
Box 3, Folder II.40 Correspondence
1986

Series III. Class representatives, negotiations to discontinue, 1988-1991

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder III.1 Court documents
1988 November-December
Box 3, Folder III.2 Court documents
1989 February-March
Box 3, Folder III.3 Court documents
1989 May
Box 3, Folder III.4 Court documents
1989 September-November
Box 3, Folder III.5 Court documents
1990 January-July
Box 8, Folder III.6-8 Memos, drafts, correspondence, minutes, etc.
Contents Note: Three folders.

Access restrictions:

CLOSED until January 1, 1999.


1988-1989 October-February
Box 8, Folder III.9 Memos, drafts of goals and timetables, lists of tenured/untenured women faculty, notes, etc.
Contents Note: Was marked "negotiations round II."

Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1999.


1989 March-April
Box 8, Folder III.10 Memos, list of tenured faculty
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1999.


1989 May
Box 3, Folder III.11 Faculty Bulletin
Contents Note: Re: revision of faculty grievance procedure

1989 September
Box 3, Folder III.12 Correspondence, notes, statement by President Gregorian ....
Contents Note: Statement is entitled "The President's statement on Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action."

Access restrictions:

All but the statement is CLOSED until January 1, 2000.


1989-1990 June-January
Box 8, Folder III.13 Correspondence, drafts, notes
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2000


1990 January-June
Box 8, Folder III.14 Replacement Mechanism for Consent Decree: Draft II
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1993.


1988 November
Box 8, Folder III.15 Replacement Mechanism for Consent Decree: draft IV
Contents Note: Contains three variations of the draft.

Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1994.


1989 October
Box 8, Folder III.16 Replacement Mechanism for Consent Decree: draft VI and comments
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1995.


1990
Box 8, Folder III.17 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft VII-VIII
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1995.


1990 July
Box 9, Folder III.18 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft IX-X
Access restrictions:

This folder is closed until January 1, 1995


1990 July?-August
Box 9, Folder III.19 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft XI-XIA
Contents Note: Includes memos.

Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1995.


1990 September
Box 9, Folder III.20 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft XIIB
Contents Note: Includes memo.

Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1995.


1990 October
Box 9, Folder III.21 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft XIIC
Contents Note: Includes memos.

Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1995.


1990 November
Box 9, Folder III.22 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft XIID
Contents Note: Includes memos, material re: class meeting.

Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1996.


1990-1991 December-January
Box 9, Folder III.23 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft XIIE-F
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1996.


1991 February
Box 9, Folder III.24 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: draft, copy voted on by women faculty
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1996.


1991 March
Box 9, Folder III.25 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: ballot envelopes, list of names/addresses
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2001.


1991 April
Box 9, Folder III.26 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: completed ballots
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2001.


1991 April
Box 9, Folder III.27 Procedures for Hiring and Promotion of Faculty: copy voted on by faculty forum, memos
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 1996


Box 9, Folder III.28 Petitions for exclusion: Philip Rosen, Joseph Brodsky, Linda Dykstra, Alicia D.H. Monroe
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2049.


1989
Box 9, Folder III.29 Petition for exclusion: Rose Subotnik
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2050.


1990
Box 9, Folder III.30 Mark Rosenzweig case
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2050.


1990
Box 9, Folder III.31 Petition for exemption: Karen Wyche
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2051.


1991
Box 9, Folder III.32 Petition for exemption: Deborah Boedeker
Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2051.


Box 9, Folder III.33 Petition for exemption
Contents Note: Elmo Terry-Morgan.

Access restrictions:

This folder is CLOSED until January 1, 2051.


1991
Box 3, Folder III.34 Minority faculty
Contents Note: Initiative, memo. Includes "An Initiative to Increase Minority Faculty Recruitment and Retention at Brown: 1. African-Americans" memo from Jim Wyche mostly re: increasing the presence of minorities at Brown.

1990-1991

Series IV. Courses, 1960-1989

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder IV.10 American in the World
Contents Note: CAC Radical Education Seminar

1960s
Box 3, Folder IV.1 Our Bodies Our Selves
Contents Note: Group Study Project

1971-1973
Box 3, Folder IV.2 Women in the Contemporary World
Contents Note: Special Themes and Topics 31

1973-1974
Box 4, Folder IV.3 Women in Contemporary Society
Contents Note: Contains information re: early Feminist Studies Program.

1973-1974
Box 4, Folder IV.4 Woman and Health Care
Contents Note: Syllabi, etc.

1978
Box 4, Folder IV.5 Women and Health
Contents Note: Administrative material. Includes negatives.

1978-1984
Box 4, Folder IV.6 Psychological and Biological Sex and Sex Role Differences
Contents Note: Group Study Project

1978-1979
Box 4, Folder IV.7 Social Issues in Biology
Contents Note: Lectures/ideas for the future. note Marked "St 27."

1979
Box 4, Folder IV.8 Women and Minorities in Science
Contents Note: Responses from prospective pen-pals

1984-1985
Box 4, Folder IV.9 Gender and Science
Contents Note: Graduate study

1989

Series V. Women's studies and the Pembroke Center, 1973-1988

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder V.1-2 Women's Studies
Contents Note: Other schools, curricula, etc.. Two folders. Includes proposal re: Brown.

1973
Box 4, Folder V.3 Women's Studies
Contents Note: Includes Pembroke Center proposal.

1981-1982
Box 4, Folder V.4-5 Pembroke Center
Contents Note: Proposals for a "Women's Studies Institute" that became the center. Two folders. Includes final report of Committee on the Status of Women.

1980-1981
Box 4, Folder V.6 Pembroke Center
1981-1982
Box 4, Folder V.7 Pembroke Center
1987-1988

Series VI. Other committees and subject files, 1960-1986

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder VI.9 Fair employment practices at Brown
Contents Note: Participants included AAUP, Rhode Island Project Equality.

1968
Box 5, Folder VI.10 American Association of University Professors--Brown Chapter
Contents Note: Report on Brown ROTC programs

1968
Box 5, Folder VI.11 Brown Vietnam Committee
Contents Note: AFS's contribution to proposed book

1960s
Box 4, Folder VI.1 Women Employees of Brown
1974-1976
Box 4, Folder VI.2 Women faculty
Contents Note: Includes material from the Committee on the Status of Women.

1977-1982
Box 5, Folder VI.3 Fausto-Sterling, Anne
Contents Note: Marked "sings and symptoms article."

1981
Box 5, Folder VI.4 Women and science at Brown
Access restrictions:

A memorandum in this file is CLOSED until January 1, 2044


1983-1984
Box 5, Folder VI.5 Committee on Faculty Reappointment and Tenure
Contents Note: Statistics, minutes, lists, agenda. Marked "CONFRAT.'

Access restrictions:

Most of this file is CLOSED Until January 1, 2054.


1983-1984
Box 5, Folder VI.6 Minority faculty
Contents Note: Some re: Third World Center, gay and lesbian curriculum issues.

Access restrictions:

A memo ranking candidates is CLOSED until January 1, 2046.


1984-1986
Box 5, Folder VI.7 Third World Center Task Force
1985
Box 5, Folder VI.8 Minorities in science at Brown
Contents Note: Most re: exchange with Tougaloo College

1985-1986

Series VII. Student protests, 1981-1985

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder VII.1-2 Jabberwocky
Contents Note: Two folders. Students read poem during CIA director's speech.

1981
Box 5, Folder VII.3 Pembroke 67
Contents Note: Protest against CIA recruitment.

1984-1985