Heather Findlay Papers,1986

Collection Number: 7618

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Heather Findlay papers, 1986.

Collection Number:

7618

Creator:

Heather Ann. Findlay

Quantity:

.2 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

Manuscripts.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Layout pages from the only issue of POSITIONS.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Graduate of Brown University, 1986. While a senior, PLAYBOY came to campus for a "Women of the Ivy League" issue. This generated a great deal of campus activism and criticism of pornography and prostitution. Findlay responded by seeking to create and publish pornography meaningful to her and created by women. She and Miven Booth published a single issue of POSITIONS. For it, they put a model call in the school papers the BROWN DAILY HERALD next to PLAYBOY's advertisement. A story about this appeared on the front page of the New York DAILY NEWS. Findlay earned a PhD in English at Cornell University in 1993, worked on the staff of ON OUR BACKS, and then started her own lesbian periodical, GIRLFRIENDS.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Layout pages from the only issue of POSITIONS.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Findlay, Heather Ann.

Brown University--Students.

Titles:

Recherches morales.Positions.

Subjects:

Lesbians' writings.

Lesbian erotic art.

Lesbian college students.