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Interview no. | G-0011 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.1. Southern Women: Individual Biographies |
Project description | Interviews, 1964-1991 (bulk 1970s), focusing on women's participation in movements for social change. Many deal with southern women active in reform movements between the 1910s women's suffrage movement and the 1960s feminist movement and explore the interaction between the private lives and public activities of women representing various social classes and races. Interviewees include women involved in labor and workers' education movements; African American and white women active in the civil rights movement; and women who, in addition to their contributions to these reform movements, also pursued professional careers. |
Date | 29 October 1973 |
Interviewee | Boyd, Rosamonde Ramsay. |
Interviewee occupation | Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1903 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Myers, Constance Ashton. |
Abstract | Rosamonde R. Boyd shares some observations on women's activism in the early 20th century in this interview. She describes the evolution of young women's attitudes, from an assumption that they would teach and raise children after college in the 1910s and 1920s, to a conviction that they would enter the workforce in the 1930s. Boyd is torn between her belief in women's political and social equality and her distaste for blatant violations of traditional gender norms, such as when women wear pants. This interview reveals some of the ways in which even those women who were actively pushing for equal rights wrestled with their own assumptions about gender. |
Subject Topical |
Equal rights amendments. Women--Suffrage--United States. Women's rights--United States. Women--United States--Social conditions. Working class women--United States. Sex role--United States. |
Subject Name |
Boyd, Rosamonde Ramsay. Status of Women Committee. American Association of University Women. International Federation of University Women. |
Citation | Interview with Rosamonde Ramsay Boyd by Constance Ashton Myers, 29 October 1973 G-0011, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | G-0011_Audio |