Women's Studies 200/201: Feminist Movements in Milwaukee

Papers of Sage Oh'hne (formerly Karen Christine Voltz), of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, consisting of her writings, including her autobiographical manuscript, “Circles of Perfection."

The collection as a whole contains minutes, newsletters, miscellaneous print and near print materials of an umbrella group of women's organizations in Milwaukee (Wis.) whose activities included advocating for battered women, “Take Back the Night” rallies, running a women's crisis line, and fighting for other feminist goals.

See particularly Box 1 file 8; Box 2 files 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 13; Box 3, files 2, 3, 4.

Milwaukee: Amazon Collective, May 1972 - March 1984.
Call Number: (SPL) HQ1101 .A42x
Published in Milwaukee from 1971-1984, this periodical produced by the Amazon Collective billed itself as "a Midwest journal for women," and was one of the founding organizations in the Women’s Coalition of Milwaukee. The Amazon covered Milwaukee's feminist events and issues and provided a forum for feminist writers and poets. Its early format of 2-4 mimeographed pages per month expanded into a 24-56 page newsprint edition published bi-monthly. Its circulation grew from 200-300 in 1974 to a peak of 1,500 in 1980. A collective of 5-10 women administered Amazon through most of its twelve years.

Milwaukee: Woman's Soul Productions, 1974-1980.
Call Number (SPL) ML82 .P3x
Founded by Dorothy Dean in 1974, Paid My Dues was a bi-monthly women's music journal, established to serve as a networking and informational vehicle for the newly emerging women's music industry. Paid My Dues printed songsheets, discographies, and technical information, as well as biographical profiles on famous and obscure women songwriters and musicians. Paid My Dues led to the formation of Women's Soul Productions, which produced numerous concerts featuring local artists as well as national figures in the women's music industry: Cris Williamson, Casse Culver, Meg Christian, and others.

Milwaukee: Women's Coalition, 1976-1985.
Call Number: (SPL) HQ1101 .C58x
Monthly newsletter of the Women's Coalition, an organization established in 1972 as an umbrella organization encompassing many of Milwaukee's feminist groups, including its initial founding organizations National Organization for Women-Milwaukee, Women's Crisis Line, and The Amazon feminist periodical. Jamakaya, noted Milwaukee journalist and activist, has posted an online history of the Coalition. http://www.jamakaya.com/wcbkin.htm#Intro

Milwaukee: Bread & Roses Women's Health Center, 1979-1986.
Call Number: (SPL) RG14 .U6 I7x
Newsletter of Milwaukee's first woman-owned and operated health clinic, Bread and Roses.

Milwaukee: Hag Rag, 1986-1993.
Call Number: (SPL) HQ75 .H34x
Hag Rag was a bi-monthly, lesbian-feminist newspaper focusing on news, non-fiction, political analysis, and commentary of interest to lesbians and radical feminists.