Finding Aid
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LINDA YANNEY
PAPERS, 1948-2000
QUANTITY: 3.5 linear feet
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 597) were donated by Linda Yanney in 1999.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Copyright: Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to the University of Iowa.
Preferred Citation: Box #, Linda Yanney Papers, Iowa Women’s Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
Photographs: None.
Audiovisual: One audiocassette (AC1326) shelved in audiocassette collection.
Processed by: Karissa Haugeberg, 2008.
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Iowa Women's Archives
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone: 319-335-5068
Fax: 319-335-5900
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Biography
Linda Yanney attended Iowa Central Community College in Eagle Grove, Iowa, from 1972 to 1973 and Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa from 1973 to 1975. In 1978, she received a BA in English from the University of Iowa, where she received an MA in American Studies in 1984. Yanney's scholarly, activist, and volunteer interests coalesced around issues of equality, social justice, and advocacy.
While pursuing her PhD at the University of Iowa in the 1980s, Yanney designed and taught courses in American studies and women's studies, including courses on women in American culture and the history of farming in the United States. She also worked as a graduate assistant at the Labor Center, where she conducted research and taught continuing education programs. Yanney's research interests included social history and political movements. Her dissertation was titled, "The Practical Revolution: An Oral History of the Iowa City Feminist Community, 1965-1975." Yanney received a PhD in American Studies in 1991.
Yanney later worked as an advisor for several public interest organizations, including a statewide gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) AIDS policy group, the Emma Goldman Clinic for Women, and the Jean Lloyd-Jones for Senate campaign. While in graduate school, Yanney had worked on Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign. During the mid-1990s, Yanney worked as a co-director and HIV program coordinator at the Iowa City Free Medical Clinic. She recruited volunteers, trained staff, and organized community outreach for the clinic. From 1999 until 2001, Yanney directed the University Oral History Project at the University of Iowa.
Since the l970s, Linda Yanney championed GLBT and women's rights. In 1976, she lobbied the Iowa City Council to pass the first Iowa City Human Rights Ordinance, which included sexual orientation protections. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she served on the advisory board for the Women's Resource and Action Center at the University of Iowa. In 1980, she was the co-chair of Citizens for Lighting and Safe Streets in Iowa City. She later served on the Johnson County Democratic Central Committee. In 1989, Yanney co-founded the Iowa Lesbian and Gay Political Caucus. Throughout this period, she was a member of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 716, AFL-CIO.
Scope and Content Note
The Linda Yanney papers date from 1960 to 2000 and measure 3.5 linear feet. The records are arranged in the following series: Academic files; Feminist activism; Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual (GLBT); and Politics.
The Academic files series (1948-1991) includes program files, scholarly articles, and newsletters from several programs at the University of Iowa, including the Action Studies Program, the Afro-American Studies Program, and the Women's Studies Program, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s. The records of the UI Daycare Commission, which include minutes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence, complete this series.
The Feminist activism series (1974-1992) consists of organizational and academic materials. It includes the agendas, minutes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings of organizations including the Women's Resource and Action Council and the Rape Victim Advocacy Program. The series includes a 1989 interview conducted by Linda Yanney with Leona Durham, who served as an editor of the Daily Iowan in the early 1970s; Durham recounts being fired as editor because she was a feminist activist. Durham also describes a demonstration held on the Pentacrest in the early 1970s to convince Student Health to supply birth control. The interview also includes topics ranging from daycare at the University to the feminist movement in Iowa City. Yanney's scholarly analyses of the Iowa City feminist movement, including her PhD Dissertation, complete this series.
The GLBT series (1972-2000) includes newsletters, newspaper clippings, and flyers from statewide and national gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organizations. The "Des Moines and Jonathan Wilson" folder includes information about a prominent Des Moines school board member who publicly acknowledged his homosexual identity in 1995. Several small GLBT publications, most of which were published in Iowa City, complete the series.
The Politics series (1980-1992) consists of newsletters, flyers, and newspaper clippings that pertain to progressive politics in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- Related Collection at the Iowa Women's Archives
The Women's Resource and Action Council (WRAC) Records
- Women's center established in 1970 to serve the university and community. Yanney served on WRAC's advisory board in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Jean Lloyd-Jones Papers- Yanney worked on Lloyd-Jones's unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in 1992.
Related Collections at Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries
The University Archives Oral History Project Records - Linda Yanney conducted or supervised interviews with forty-two people at the University of Iowa between 1999 and 2001.
Records of the New Wave Party- Yanney was active in the New Wave Party, a progressive activist organization at the University of Iowa during the 1980s.
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- Box List
Box 1
ACADEMIC FILES
Action Studies Program
- Program files, 1968-1976 (2 folders)
Anarchism study group, 1972
O'Brien, "A History of the New Left, 1960-1968," 1968
Women's poetry reading, 1972
- Afro-American Studies Program
- Program files, 1968-1969 and 1989 (2 folders)
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- Box 2
ACADEMIC FILES (cont.)
Afro-American Studies Program (cont.)
- "Afro-American History" course, 1969
"The Black Revolution and Its Leadership" course, 1948-1968
- Department of Physical Education and Dance
- Women as Leaders: Feminism and Sport Workshop, 1982 and 1983
- Women's Studies Program
- Administration, 1981-1984
Notes and correspondence, 1980-1991
Event fliers, 1981-1990
Iowa Women's Studies Newsletter, 1979-1984
Midwest Region of the National Women's Studies Association, 1980-1982
National Women's Studies Association, 1980-1983 and 1990
Box 3
ACADEMIC FILES (cont.)
Women's Studies Program (cont.)- Matrices: A Lesbian Feminist Research Newsletter, 1982
Women at Iowa: Working, Teaching, Learning Conference, 1982
"Affirmative Action at the University of Iowa: The Distance Between Policy and Practice," UI Council on the Status of Women, ca. 1987
Reading group, 1986-1987
Readings on employment, gender, and age, 1988 and undated
Readings on sexuality, undated
"Role of Women in America" course, 1971
"Topics in Women's Studies: The Feminist Movement" course pack, 1990 (3 folders)
Pay stubs and telephone bill, 1988-1991
- Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City [note: not University of Iowa]
- "Farming in America: Myths, Reality, and Change" course, 1985-1989
Box 4
ACADEMIC FILES (cont.)
Student life and student services - Tuition boycott, 1969
Student Services/Academic Affairs Self-Study, 1975
Student Services Council, 1977-1978 (2 folders)
Student Senate, 1980
- Daycare Commission
- History and agendas, 1982-1983 and undated
Notes, 1971-1983
Correspondence, 1982-1983 and undated
Box 5
ACADEMIC FILES (cont.)
Daycare Commission (cont.)- Business records, 1979-1983
Financial records, 1981-1982
Personnel, 1982
Co-op daycare providers, early 1980s
Newspaper clippings, articles, and reports, 1982
FEMINIST ACTIVISM- "Iowa City Feminist History: A Working Timeline," by Linda Yanney, 1991
"The Practical Revolution: An Oral History of the Iowa City Feminist Community, 1965-1971," PhD Dissertation, 1991 [shelved in IWA printed works: HQ1439.I59Y36]
PhD Dissertation celebration, 1991
Leona Durham interview, 1989 [AC1326] [shelved in audiocassette collection]
Iowa Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood, 1988-1990
Johnson County National Organization for Women (NOW), 1979-1980
Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP), 1982 and 1989
Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC) Advisory Council, 1979-1983 (2 folders)
Box 6
FEMINIST ACTIVISM (cont.)- Consciousness raising, 1974-1975
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 1980 and 1992 (2 folders)
Rape awareness and lighting in Iowa City, 1979-1981
Woodfield's protest, undated
Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and newsletters, 1979-1981
GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, and TRANSGENDER (GLBT) ACTIVISM- Cedar Falls and Waterloo, 1995
Cedar Rapids, 1994-1995
Des Moines and Jonathan Wilson, 1995
Quad Cities, 1995-2000
Sioux City, 1995-1997
Box 7
GLBT ACTIVISM (cont.)- National Gay and Lesbian Task force, 1980-1994
AIDS, 1989-1992
Conferences, events, and organizations, 1980-1992
Better Homes and Dykes, 1977-1980
The Furies, 1972-1973 and The Gaily Iowan, 1980
Lesbian Connection and Full Moon, 1977-1979
Box 8
GLBT ACTIVISM (cont.)- The Women's Liberation Calendar: A Yearbook for Manic Lesbians, undated
Newspaper clippings, 1979-1991
POLITICS- Johnson County Democratic Convention, 1980 and Johnson County Democratic Party, 1989
Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, 1982-1992
Jesse Jackson for President, 1988
Iowa Rainbow Coalition, 1989
Jean Lloyd-Jones for US Senate, 1991-1992
Presidential election newspaper clippings, 1991-1992 (2 folders)
Hawkeye Review legal dispute, 1984
Nuclear proliferation and Star Wars, 1980 and 1989
Iowa City Magazine premiere issue, 1989
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For more information about this collection contact the Iowa Women's Archives.
Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City IA 52242.
Please send comments to: lib-women@uiowa.edu
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