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Alice Kahn Ladas papers

 Collection — Folder: (Unprocessed)
Identifier: 7728

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Alice Kahn Ladas speeches and articles, correspondence, memos, pamphlets, and clippings. Includes a 1943 memo detailing her reasons for wanting an internship with the Fair Employment Practices Commission and with a U.S. Congressperson, a 1945 letter of thanks from employees of the U.S. Patent Office for her assistance getting their positions upgraded, a 1951 letter from Eva Reich of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, notes about a meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt, and a 1991 letter to friends. Pamphlets and clippings contain her writing on breast feeding, sexuality and women's liberation, and bioenergetic analysis. Included is the program from a speech on “The Sexual Revolution: Phase Two” given March 14, 2004 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a society she has been involved with since childhood.

Also, an issue of Balanced Living containing an article by Alice Hammarth, "Breast Feeding and Bottle Feeding Compared" (October 1960); and an issue of The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal containing an article by Alice Kahn Ladas, "An Appreciation of Alexander Lowen" (2008).

Dates

  • 1943-2013.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A sexual liberation activist who was instrumental in establishing Lamaze education in the U.S. and promoting breastfeeding and who published a NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, "The G Spot and Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality," with Beverly Whipple and John D. Perry in 1982.

Extent

.2 cubic feet. (.2 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Alice Kahn Ladas speeches and articles, correspondence, memos, pamphlets, and clippings.

RELATED MATERIALS

Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection

Physical Description

Speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, articles and newspaper clippings.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Rima Turner
Date completed:
February 16, 2006
EAD encoding:
Peter Martinez, February 2006 Rima Turner, February 2006Sarah Keen, April 2010
Date modified:
RMC Staff, November 2014
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Rima Turner
Date
Feb. 2006
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)