Video collection of the Mautner Project, 1990-2006
Overview
Videotapes and DVDs of the Mautner Project, an organization committed to improving the health of women who partner with women, including lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, through direct and support services, education and advocacy.
Dates
- 1990-2006
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Unrestricted. An appointment is necessary to use any audiovisual material.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the videotapes and DVDs created by the Mautner Project is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. Copyright in other videotapes and DVDs in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Videotapes and DVDs may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
50 videotapes4 DVDs
Series I, EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS, TELEVISION PROGRAMS, AND LECTURES, 1990-2004 (#Vt-227.1 - Vt-227.30), includes videos produced by the Mautner Project to educate clients and medical practioners, outtakes, television programs featuring interviews with Project staff, and other programs or lectures discussing breast cancer and health care in the lesbian/bisexual/transgender community.
Series II, GALAS,1996-2006 (Vt-227.31 - Vt-227.50, DVD-74.1 - DVD-74.3), documents the yearly galas sponsored by the Mautner Project , which include award ceremonies, remembrances of the recently deceased, testimonies by celebrities and members of the community, and dance parties. The series also includes additional footage and outtakes.
All recordings are on videotape or DVD, exact format is noted throughout. Reels are organized chronologically, within series.
HISTORY
Mary-Helen Mautner was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1982, and in 1989 died from the disease at the age of forty-four. Three weeks before her death, she envisioned an organization that could extend to other lesbians the support and assistance she had received from her partner and friends. In January 1990, a few months after her death, her partner Susan Hester and a group of friends and supporters founded the Mary-Helen Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer. The Mautner Project is a nonprofit organization located in Washington, DC, whose mission is to provide direct services to lesbians with cancer, as well as to their partners and caregivers; to inform the lesbian community about cancer; to educate the health care community about the special concerns of lesbians with cancer and their families; and to advocate on lesbian health issues in national and local arenas. The organization provides support groups and education in the DC area and within a thirty-mile radius and the majority of the work is carried out by volunteers.
ARRANGEMENT
The collection is arranged in two series:
- Series I. Educational videos, television programs, and lectures, 1990-2004 (#Vt-227.1 - Vt-227.30)
- Series II. Galas, 1996-2006 (Vt-227.31 - Vt-227.50, DVD-74.1 - DVD-74.3)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2008-M92, 2008-M204
The videotapes and DVDs of the Mautner Project were given to the Schlesinger Library by the Mautner Project in 2008.
Related Material:
There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see Records of the Mautner Project, 1989-2010 (MC 683).
Processing Information
Processed: October 2011
By: Melissa Dollman
- Bisexual women--Health and hygiene--United States
- Breast--Cancer--Patients
- Cancer--Patients--United States
- Cancer--Social aspects--United States
- DVD-Video discs
- Educational films
- Health care reform--United States
- Health education--United States
- Interviews
- Lectures
- Lesbians--Health and hygiene--United States
- Lesbians--Medical care--United States
- Lesbians--United States--Social conditions
- Medical personnel--Training of
- Outtakes
- Patient advocacy--United States
- Television programs
- Television public service announcements
- Transsexuals--Health and hygiene--United States
- Videotapes
- Women health reformers--United States
- Women's health services--United States
- Women--Health and hygiene--United States
- Women--Social networks--United States
- Title
- Mautner Project. Video collection of the Mautner Project, 1990-2006: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch01363
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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