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From the late 1960s onwards Serena Wadham became increasingly interested in feminism and women's issues, and the archive contains many pictures of political meetings and demonstrations, portraits of feminist personalities, and images of women at work, at home, or engaged in leisure activities. Some were part of regular assignments, others were connected with a long-cherished - but unrealized - book project on women in contemporary society.
Green folder 9/1 containing portraits of prominent women, including Barbara Hepworth, Germaine Greer, Elizabeth Lutyens, Pat Arrowsmith, Kate Millett, Judy Chicago, Indira Gandhi and Lisbet Holme; also street and sporting scenes, some nudes and images of friends; and a series of studies of mannequins.
Brown A4 envelope 9/2 marked 'Lesbian Issues' and containing negatives, contact sheets, prints and some written material relating to SW's lesbian interests, including correspondence with the American journal The Ladder. Mostly mid-1960s.
Plastic envelope 9/3 containing 2 portraits of Lyn Redgrave.
Brown folder 9/4 marked 'Judy Chicago' containing photographs and printed material relating to the American artist and her installation The Dinner Party, exhibited in Edinburgh and London 1984-5; also an illustrated Daily Telegraph article of 7 Jan 1983 by Serena Wadham and other material on Chicago's work The Birth Project, including an ms card from the artist.
Brown folder 9/5 marked 'Gay Lib' containing typed and cyclostyled documents on the Gay Liberation Front, early 1972.