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Janna Dieckmann Papers
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Dr. Janna Dieckmann is a public health nurse, professor, and activist. She received a BSN from Case Western Reserve University, and MSN and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
This collection mainly documents Janna Dieckmann's work on female sanitary products, particularly tampons, and their safety, as well as her involvement as an activist for women's and LGBTQ issues. Included in the collection is correspondence to Dieckmann as well as correspondence and other records of various organizations including the ASTM Tampon Task Force, the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, the Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Organization, and the Reproductive Rights National Network; records of and publications by the Movement for a New Society, a network of social activist groups committed to the principles of nonviolence; clippings and ephemera collected by Dieckmann; and subject files of reports, publications, notes, legal records, and ephemera on issues including tampons and sanitary products, political organizing, women's and LGBTQ rights, feminism, socialism, communism, and other topics.
The collection is arranged into 2 series as follows:
Series 1: Personal and professional papers, 1945-1990, bulk 1980-1990
Series 2: Journals and publications, 1966-1991, undated
Series 2: Journals and publications, 1966-1991, undated
Donated by Janna Dieckmann in December 1998.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in 1999 by Brian Jones. Collection reprocessed and finding aid revised and placed online in July 2018 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.
Organization
- ASTM Tampon Task Force
- Boston Women's Health Book Collective
- Movement for a New Society
- Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Organization
- Reproductive Rights National Network
Subject
- Abortion
- Feminism
- Gay rights
- Lesbianism
- Nonviolence
- Public health
- Reproductive rights
- Tampons
- Women -- Health and hygiene
Place
- Publisher
- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
- Finding Aid Author
- Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
- Finding Aid Date
- March 2024
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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The Janna Dieckman Papers are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.
Collection Inventory
Correspondence, 1983.
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Folder 1
Correspondence, 1984.
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Folder 2
Correspondence, 1985.
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Correspondence, 1986.
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Folder 4
Correspondence, 1990.
Box 1
Folder 5
Correspondence, undated.
Box 1
Folder 6
ASTM Tampon Task Force, 1982.
Box 1
Folder 7
ASTM Tampon Task Force, 1983.
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Folder 8
ASTM Tampon Task Force, 1984.
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Folder 9
ASTM Tampon Task Force, 1984.
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Folder 10
ASTM Tampon Task Force, 1984.
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Folder 11
ASTM Tampon Task Force, 1984.
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Folder 12
ASTM Tampon Task Force, 1986.
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Folder 13
Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1984-1989.
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Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1984.
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Department of Health and Human Services, 1983.
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Department of Health and Human Services, 1984.
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Department of Health and Human Services, 1985.
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International Congress for Infectious Diseases, 1983.
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International Playtex Inc., 1985.
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Folder 20
International Women's Day, 1980.
Box 1
Folder 21
Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, 1983.
Box 1
Folder 22
Movement for a New Society, 1973-1975.
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Folder 23
Movement for a New Society, 1978.
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Folder 24
Movement for a New Society, 1979.
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Folder 25
Movement for a New Society, 1979-1982.
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Folder 26
Movement for a New Society, 1985.
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Folder 27
Movement for a New Society, undated.
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Folder 28
Movement for a New Society, undated.
Box 1
Folder 29
NARAL, 1982.
Box 1
Folder 30
National Consumers League, 1983.
Box 1
Folder 31
National Organization for Women, undated.
Box 1
Folder 32
National Women's Health Network, 1985.
Box 1
Folder 33
National Women's Health Network, 1985.
Box 1
Folder 34
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1988, undated.
Box 1
Folder 35
PAI Plastic Applications, 1983.
Box 1
Folder 36
Personal Products, 1984.
Box 1
Folder 37
Personal products, 1985.
Box 1
Folder 38
Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Organization, 1981.
Box 1
Folder 39
Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Organization, 1982.
Box 1
Folder 40
Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Organization, 1982-1984.
Box 1
Folder 41
Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Organization, 1984-1985, undated.
Box 1
Folder 42
Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Organization pro-choice poster, undated.
Map Folder M35e
Reproductive Rights National Network, circa 1981-1982.
Box 1
Folder 43
Reproductive Rights National Network, 1983.
Box 1
Folder 44
Reproductive Rights National Network, 1983.
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Folder 45
Reproductive Rights National Network, 1984.
Box 1
Folder 46
Reproductive Rights National Network, 1982-1984.
Box 1
Folder 47
Swankin and Turner, 1985.
Box 2
Folder 1
Tampon Applicator Creative Klubs International (TACKI), 1985-1986.
Box 2
Folder 2
Tambrands, 1985.
Box 2
Folder 3
Tambrands, 1985.
Box 2
Folder 4
Tampon testing, 1983.
Box 2
Folder 5
Tampon testing, 1985.
Box 2
Folder 6
Tampon testing, undated.
Box 2
Folder 7
Tampon research bibliography, undated.
Box 2
Folder 8
Toronto Department of Public Health, 1982.
Box 2
Folder 9
University of Michigan, 1985.
Box 2
Folder 10
War Resisters League, 1980.
Box 2
Folder 11
Woman health International, 1983.
Box 2
Folder 12
Women's issues groups meetings, 1984.
Box 2
Folder 13
Subject files, 1945.
Box 2
Folder 14
Subject files, 1971.
Box 2
Folder 15
Subject files, 1974.
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Folder 16
Subject files, 1976.
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Subject files, 1977.
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Subject files, 1978.
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Subject files, 1978.
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Subject files, 1978.
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Subject files, 1979.
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Subject files, 1980.
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Subject files, 1981.
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Subject files, 1982.
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Subject files, 1983.
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Subject files, 1983.
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Subject files, 1984.
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Subject files, 1984.
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Subject files, 1985.
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Subject files, 1985.
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Subject files, 1986.
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Folder 32
Subject files, 1987.
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Folder 33
Subject files, 1988.
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Folder 34
Subject files, 1989.
Box 2
Folder 35
Subject files, undated.
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Folder 36
Subject files, undated.
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Subject files, undated.
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Subject files, undated.
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Folder 39
Subject files, undated.
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Folder 40
Subject files, undated.
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Folder 41
Subject files, undated.
Box 2
Folder 42
Ephemera, circa 1977-1986, undated.
Box 2
Folder 43
Ephemera, circa 1980-1989, undated.
Box 2
Folder 44
Clippings, circa 1980-1988, undated.
Box 3
Folder 1
Clippings, circa 1980-1988, undated.
Box 3
Folder 2
Clippings, circa 1980-1988, undated.
Box 3
Folder 3
Miscellaneous papers, undated.
Box 3
Folder 4
Alternative Health Care in a Rural Community, by Jim Scott and Claire Douglas, reprinted from WIN Magazine, July 27 and August 3, 1978, circa 1978.
Box 3
Folder 5
Alternatives/80's: Coalition For a People's Alternative Newsletter, November/December 1981.
Box 3
Folder 6
Alternatives in Health Care: Politics and Women's Health, January and April 1979.
Box 3
Folder 7
Birth Project, 1981.
Box 3
Folder 8
Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917 to 1921, by Maurice Brinton. Detroit: Black and Red, 1975.
Box 3
Folder 9
CDRR News: The Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights, February-April 1985.
Box 3
Folder 10
Clearness: Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making, by Peter Woodrow, 1976.
Box 3
Folder 11
Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, July/August 1977.
Box 3
Folder 12
Conscience: The Voice of Pro-Choice Catholics, 1984-1985.
Box 3
Folder 13
Dandelion: Newsletter of the Movement for a New Society, 1975-Winter 1977.
Box 3
Folder 14
Dandelion: Newsletter of the Movement for a New Society, April 1978-Summer/Fall 1979.
Box 3
Folder 15
Dandelion: Newsletter of the Movement for a New Society, 1980.
Box 3
Folder 16
Day Care Parents United Newsletter, May 1982.
Box 3
Folder 17
De-Developing the United States Through Nonviolence, by William Moyer. Reprinted from IDOC-NORTH AMERICA, 1973, circa 1973.
Box 3
Folder 18
The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, 1979.
Box 3
Folder 19
FAAR and NCN (Feminist Alliance Against Rape and National Communications Network), July/August 1978.
Box 3
Folder 20
The Fate of Marxism: A Solidarity Pamphlet, by Paul Cardan, circa 1966.
Box 3
Folder 21
FDA Drug Bulletin, 1980-1982.
Box 3
Folder 22
Feminist Perspectives on the Family (DSA Feminist Commission), Summer 1982.
Box 3
Folder 23
From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy: Solidarity London Pamphlet, by Paul Cardan, circa 1966.
Box 3
Folder 24
Future Worlds, by Richard A. Falk. Foreign Policy Association Headline Series, February 1976.
Box 3
Folder 25
Gay Oppression and Liberation, by the Gay Theory Work Group of the Movement for a New Society, June 1977.
Box 3
Folder 26
Grapevine: Newsletter of the Movement for a New Society, November 1986.
Box 3
Folder 27
How We Cause World Hunger, by William Moyer and Pamela Haines. Reprinted from WIN Magazine, January 1975, circa 1975.
Box 3
Folder 28
Hungary '56, by Andy Anderson. Detroit: Black and Red, 1976.
Box 3
Folder 29
Info for Women: Your Sterilization Operation. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, November 1978.
Box 3
Folder 30
Jane Doe: A Newsletter from the Women's Encampment for a Future of peace and Justice, November 1984.
Box 3
Folder 31
Kent State: Ten Years Later, edited by Scott Bills, Tim Smith, and S. R. Thulin. Kent, OH: Kent State Popular Press, 1980.
Box 3
Folder 32
Labyrinth: The Philadelphia Women's Newspaper, 1986.
Box 3
Folder 33
Leading Edge Bulletin, December 22, 1980.
Box 3
Folder 34
Lesbian Herstory Archives News, Spring 1979.
Box 3
Folder 35
Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution, By George Lakey. War Resisters International, circa 1972.
Box 3
Folder 36
Meeting Facilitation: The No Magic Method, by Bergit Lakey. Philadelphia Movement for a New Society, undated.
Box 3
Folder 37
Monthly Vital Statistics Report: National Center for Health Statistics, 1986-1989.
Box 3
Folder 38
Network News: The Newsletter of the National Women's Health Network, 1984-1990.
Box 3
Folder 39
Moving Toward a New Society, by Susanne Gowan, Georgy Lakey, William Moyer, Richard Taylor. Philadelphia: New Society press, 1976.
Box 3
Folder 40
NARAL News, 1983-1989.
Box 3
Folder 41
NARAL-PA News, Summer 1989.
Box 3
Folder 42
Nation's Health: The Official Newspaper of the American Public Health Association, January 1985.
Box 3
Folder 43
Newsletter of the Lavender Left, 1980-1982.
Box 3
Folder 44
Nonviolent Action Manual: How to Organize Nonviolent Demonstrations and Campaigns, 1976.
Box 3
Folder 45
Organizing Macro-Analysis Seminars: A Manual. Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Macro-analysis Collective, October 1975.
Box 3
Folder 46
Our Generation, May-July 1968.
Box 3
Folder 47
Our generation, Fall 1974-Winter 1975.
Box 3
Folder 48
Our Generation, Fall 1975-Summer 1976.
Box 3
Folder 49
Overcoming Masculine Oppression in Mixed groups, by Bill Moyer and Alan Tuttle, November 10, 1977.
Box 3
Folder 50
Peace Research Reviews: The Sociological Mechanisms of Non-Violent Action, by George Lakey., December 1968.
Box 3
Folder 51
People Weekly (cover article on abortion), August 5, 1985.
Box 3
Folder 52
PLGTF Bulletin, September 1981.
Box 3
Folder 53
PM Newsletter: Newsletter of the Portland Metropolitan Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi, November 1985.
Box 3
Folder 54
R2N2 News, December 1983.
Box 3
Folder 55
Radical America, March-October 1972.
Box 3
Folder 56
Radical America, May-June 1974.
Box 3
Folder 57
Radical America, 1976-1977.
Box 3
Folder 58
Radioactivist Reporter: The Newsletter of the Keystone Alliance, November 1980.
Box 3
Folder 59
Redefining Revolution, by Paul Cardan: Solidarity Pamphlet, undated.
Box 3
Folder 60
Reproductive Rights Newsletter: Newsletter of the Philadelphia Reproductive Rights Coalition, 1981-1983.
Box 3
Folder 61
Rome II, A Strategy Game on World Hunger, by William Moyer. Philadelphia: New Society Press, April 1977.
Box 3
Folder 62
Seabrook in Retrospect, by David H. Albert. Reprinted from Fellowship Magazine July/August 1977 by the Movement for a New Society, 1977.
Box 3
Folder 63
Senator Bob Packwood's Pro Choice Reort, Jun 1982.
Box 3
Folder 64
Shattering the Dreams of Young Women: The Tragic Consequences of Parental Involvement Laws. New York: ACLU, 1991.
Box 3
Folder 65
SMA Memo. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance, September 24, 1984.
Box 3
Folder 66
Socialist Monthly Changes, April 1983.
Box 3
Folder 67
Spiderweb: An MNS Wimyn's Publication, Spring 1981.
Box 3
Folder 68
Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left, by Russell Jacoby, 1976.
Box 3
Folder 69
Synthesis: An Anti-Authoritatrian Newsletter of Citizen-Worker Self-Management Ideas and Activities (now combined with Solidarity Newsletter), Summer 1977.
Box 3
Folder 70
Taking Charge: A Process Packet for Simple Living: Personal and Social Change, by the Palo Alto Packet Committee and the Simple Living Program of the American Friends Service Committee, 1975.
Box 3
Folder 71
Tell-A-Woman, 1981-1986.
Box 3
Folder 72
Tendency Newsletter #4, circa 1982.
Box 3
Folder 73
Time (cover article on abortion), May 4, 1989.
Box 3
Folder 74
The Wine: A Newsletter of the Movement for a New Society, June 1979-January/February 1980.
Box 3
Folder 75
The Wine: A Newsletter of the Movement for a New Society, March-July/August 1980.
Box 3
Folder 76
WIN Magazine, 1977-1981.
Box 3
Folder 77
Wooden Shoe News, February 1979.
Box 3
Folder 78
Women in Community, by Dianna MacLeod and Rachel Bedard. Reprinted from Communities Magazine, March/April 1977 by the Movement for a New Society, circa 1977.
Box 3
Folder 79
Womanwise, Spring 1984.
Box 3
Folder 80