Special Collections & University Archives
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NORFOLK WOMEN'S ORAL HISTORY PROJECTJean E. Friedman, Coordinator SCOPE AND CONTENTS Focusing on sex roles of the 1930's, as influenced by the Great Depression, this project produced tapes of 17 interviews and an additional recording of speeches and music. Special Collections has the typed transcripts and a detailed subject index in the file drawer labeled oral history/interviews. The subject index covers such subjects as abortion, adoption, Afro-Americans, chauvinism, contraception, co-habitation, child care, dating, divorce, education, feminism, job discrimination, marriage, menstruation, parenting, pregnancy, religion, sex, venereal disease, and virginity. These subjects, however, only scratch the surface of different subjects covered and indexed from the interviews. INTERVIEW INVENTORY Interview 1: Discussion of prostitution in Norfolk in the 1930's
and 1940's by a Norfolk physician and his wife. Interviewer: Kathleen
Bolt.
Interview 2: Life experiences of a Jewish woman who came to New
York in 1922 and to Tidewater in late 1939. Includes work history, sexual
history, and sexual attitudes, with a focus on sex roles of the l930's.
(Interview conducted at Jewish Community Center). Interviewer: Jean
E. Friedman
Interview 3: Life experiences of a female Jewish immigrant from
Germany, who came to New York in 1938, then later moved to Tidewater. Includes
work history, sexual history, and sexual attitudes, with a focus on sex
roles of the 1930's. (Interview conducted at Jewish Community Center).
Interviewer: Irene Roughton
Interview 4: Work, religious, and political experiences of a
widowed, Irish Catholic housewife and ex-missionary, who moved from Norfolk
to Fredricksburg, helped organize the Equal Suffrage League in Fredricksburg,
and practiced medicine in China and the United States until 1940. Interview
also includes a discussion of the Civil War. Interviewer: Jean T.
Bchternach
Interview 5 (5a & 5b): Life experiences of a senior citizen
from New York, with focus on work history, sexual history, and sex role
orientation, especially as influenced by the economics of the Depression
era. (Interview conducted at YWCA). Interviewer: Debbie Chuback-Wilson
Interview 6: Side one contains part of an interview with a 70-year
old white Jewish female who had lived in Norfolk for one year at the time
of this interview. (Remainder of side one blank). Side two contains the
entire interview, as recalled by interviewer. (Interview conducted at Jewish
Community Center). Interviewer: Kathleen Bolt
Interview 7: Life experiences of a 62-year-old white Norfolk
housewife. Includes work history, sexual history, and sexual attitudes,
with a focus on sex roles of the 1930's. Interviewer: Terry Waff
Interview 8: Life experiences of a 43-year-old Greek-Orthodox
Norfolk woman who was born in 1930 and attended a Catholic boarding school.
Includes work history, sexual history, and sexual attitudes, with a focus
on sex roles of the 1930's. Interviewer: Pat O'Neill
Interview 9: Discussion with a 66-year-old Catholic woman from
a Baptist background. (Some portions inaudible due to background noise).
Interviewer: Project Volunteer
Interview 10: In a 15-minute interview, a married 50-year-old
white male gives a male perspective on issues involving work, sexuality,
and sex roles by answering many of the same questions as those posed to
female interviewees. Interviewer: Suzette Smith
Interview 11: Life experiences of a 70-year-old white Norfolk
woman from a strict religious background. Includes work history, sexual
history, and sexual attitudes, with a focus on sex roles of the 1930's.
Interviewer: Project Volunteer
Interview 12: Life experiences of an elite woman of Norfolk,
including sexual history and focusing on sex roles, especially those of
the 1930's. (25-minute interview) Interviewer: (Name not given)
Interview 13: Experiences of an elite 68-year-old white Lutheran
woman of Norfolk. Including sexual history and other information regarding
sex roles. This 15-minute interview focuses almost exclusively on the 1930's.
Interviewer: Marilyn Melchor
Interview 14: Life experiences of a 55-year-old white Norfolk
female. Includes work history, sexual history, and sexual attitudes, with
a focus on sex roles of the 1930's. Interviewer: Jean E. Friedman
Interview 15: A joint interview with two senior citizens - a
74-year-old orthodox Jewish woman and a 74-year-old Jewish widow who was
active in labor union movements and who came to New York from Russia at
age 15, then to Tidewater in 1958. (Interview conducted at Jewish Community
Center). Interviewer: Jean E. Friedman
Interview 16: Life experiences of a 60-year-old Norfolk senior
citizen, including work history, sexual history, and sexual attitudes,
with a focus on sex roles of the 1930's. (Some portions inaudible)(Interview
conducted at YWCA). Interviewer: (Name not given)
Interview 17: Discussion with a 62 year old black women who lived in Norfolk, Virginia and worked as a domestic. Interesting account of the changes that have taken place in the raising of children. Includes work history, with a focus on the Depression. Interviewer: (Name not given)
Revised: 7/14/08 |