New York Women’s School: Fall 1974

New York: New York Women’s School, 1974. Corner-stapled packet on green stock, 5 pp. 8 ½ x 14 in. Very good. Item #10377

The course schedule for The New York Women’s School in 1974, a short-lived alternative education project on 9th Street in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. Classes include “Introduction to Women’s Liberation,” “Lesbianism,” “The Family,” “Basic Marxism,” “Women and Socialism,” and others.

Described by Mary Patten, a teacher at the school and a young out lesbian in 1970s New York, as an “unofficial alternative school teaching everything from classes in auto-mechanics to Marxism to poetry,” The New York Women’s School was a key node in the burgeoning network of lesbian spaces in Park Slope including La Papaya Bookstore, the Brooklyn Women’s Martial Arts dojo, a women’s gym, and later the Lesbian Herstory Archive.

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