Notes on women in Britain, Japan, U.S.S.R, U.S.A and China

Containers:

Box 11

Component identifier:

File 18

Content Summary:

Papers include: typescripts of a writings by Street entitled 'Women in Japan', 'Women in the USSR', 'Work of women's organisations in capitalist democracies and socialist democracies' together with notes on the creation of the Inter-American Commission of Women in 1928.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jessie Street's husband, Sir Kenneth Street, donated the papers to the National Library in 1970. Her son, Sir Laurence Street, made a substantial addition in 1972. Further small additions were made to the collection between 1973 and 2001.

Subjects:

Women's rights

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