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Center for Economic and Social Rights Records, 1989-2003, bulk 1991-2003
8.25 linear feetSubseries II.8: Texas-Mexico Border 2 folders
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- social rights along the border.
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Holds an outline of the Texas-Mexico border project and a draft of CESR report on economic and social rights along the border.
Human Rights Watch records: Record Group 1: Helsinki Watch, 1952-2003, bulk 1978-1994
271 linear feetEconomic and Social Rights, 1988 Box viii 46, Folder 10
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- Economic and Social Rights, 1988
Leo H. Downes Papers, 1789-2014, bulk 1950s-2014
20 linear feetThe collection comprises 753 cassette tapes; 2 videotapes, and 13 boxes of papers.
Center for Economic and Social Rights Middle East Program Box 18, Folder 7.165
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- Center for Economic and Social Rights Middle East Program
Amnesty International of the USA Inc : National Office records, 1966-2003, bulk 1974-1993
267.52 linear feetInstitute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Collection, 2014-2015
35 VolumesMelissa Fisher, 2015 February 24 Box 1
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- with the Women Creating Change project in the "Social Rights after the Welfare State" group led by
Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) through a group entitled "Social Rights After the - Abstract Or Scope
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Born in an academic family located on the Upper West Side, Fisher spent her early years around the campus of Columbia University, later moving to an affluent Westchester suburb. Fisher attributes early awareness of feminist concerns to her mother, grandmother, and grandfather. Fisher also recalls attending student protests with her father in 1968. Fisher then describes her experience as a Barnard College student in the 1980s and the benefits of attending a women's college. Fisher describes her informal exposure to feminism at Barnard, tensions between Barnard and Columbia, and the early years of Columbia College as a co-ed institution. Fisher discusses her undergraduate internship at Performance Space 122 in the East Village, which became a major influence on her work. Having first attained her master's degree at Wesleyan University, Fisher decided to pursue a PhD in anthropology with an integration of women's studies and dance at Columbia. Fisher describes the early development of IRWGS under Martha Howell and the generational differences in IRWGS. Fisher cites professors Jean Howard and Elaine Combs-Schilling as sources of support and as female scholars who paved the way for future feminist scholarship at Columbia. Following a more general discussion of IRWGS, Fisher describes the development of her graduate research and how it evolved and transformed over time. Fisher describes her interest in issues of gender, work and inequality. She discusses women and finance at length, citing IRWGS training as a tool used to anticipate the advent of corporate feminism. The interview concludes with a discussion of Fisher's teaching experiences and a summation of her continued presence within IRWGS. Fisher describes her time teaching anthropology at Georgetown University and her position at the time of the interview at New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Fisher remarks on her continued participation in IRWGS and the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) through a group entitled "Social Rights After the Welfare State" with Alice Kessler-Harris.