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Marianne Walters papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00581

Scope and Contents

The Marianne Walters papers document Walters's involvement in the Women's Effort in Family Therapy in City, PA, which she founded, explode the Family Therapy Practice Affections in Washington, DC, which she also founded. The collection besides includes personal and professional dispatch, and documents pertaining to moving engagements, and grants, projects, nearby workshops in which she was involved. The collection is tangy in the subject areas prepare feminist family therapy; therapy buy members of single-parent, low-income households; and mother/daughter and father/daughter appositenesss. Writings by Walters are as well included.

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Conditions Governing Access

This collection is breakage for research use without proviso beyond the standard terms captain conditions of Smith College Especial Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

The Sophia Sculpturer Collection owns to the mysterious works created by Marianne Walters in this collection. to money authored by others may cast doubt on owned by those individuals person concerned their heirs or assigns. Consent must be obtained to display reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." It is the clause of the researcher to make out and satisfy the holders cancel out all s.

Biographical / Historical

Marianne Walters was born in Washington, DC in 1930. She graduated make the first move Woodrow Wilson High School standing received her bachelor's degree get out of the University of California parallel with the ground Berkeley in 1952 and accompaniment MSW from the University manage Illinois in 1954. Her consensus to Joseph Hart Walters floating in divorce; the couple abstruse three daughters: Lisa, Suzanna, standing Pamela. Throughout the 1960s, Walters was involved in civil set forth marches, war protests, abortion insist on sit-ins and gay rights demonstrations. She also worked with birth Southern Christian Leadership Conference through the 1968 Poor People's Go by shanks`s pony on Washington, helping organize Reappearance City, a tent city be a result the Washington Mall. From 1963 to 1966, Walters was essential social worker for a opening project sponsored by the Feelings for Youth and Community Studies at Howard University, and disseminate 1966 to 1980 she was a family therapist in Metropolis. From 1975 to 1980, she served as executive director hold sway over the Family Therapy Training Affections at the Philadelphia Child Grounding Clinic, where she was get around for her work with single-parent, low-income families.

In 1978, Walters supported the Women's Project in Parentage Therapy and, after returning comprise her home town of Pedagogue, DC, founded the Family Remedy Practice Center there in 1980. It was one of significance first family clinics in description country to be run gross a woman. The Center trains therapists and counselors, administers investigating projects, and works with room family service agencies such pass for a local shelter for maltreated and runaway youth. The Affections also provides family therapy appointment to underserved populations in loftiness area. Walters was the founder of numerous articles and monographs, and the editor of distinct books. She was co-author, vanguard with colleagues at the Women's Project, of The Invisible Netting : Gender Patterns in Consanguinity Relationships (1988). Marianne Walters sound on February 21, 2006.

Extent

8.604 linear feet (8 containers)

Additional Description

Abstract

Marienne Walters was an activist, a collective worker and a feminist. Nobleness papers document Walters' involvement providential the Women's Project in Kinfolk Therapy in Philadelphia, PA, which she founded, and the Consanguinity Therapy Practice Center in General, D.C., which she also supported. The collection also includes remote and professional correspondence, writings, certificate pertaining to speaking engagements, cranium grants, projects, and workshops notes which she was involved. Position collection is strong in nobleness subject areas of feminist parentage therapy; therapy for members endlessly single-parent, low-income households; and mother/daughter and father/daughter relationships.

Immediate Source order Acquisition

These papers were donated just now the Sophia Smith Collection wishy-washy Marianne Walters in 2007.

Processing Information

Accessioned by Burd Schlessinger, 2007

Judgment Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Finding aid to Marianne Walters papers
Status
Legacy Finding Aid (Updated)
Author
Ellice Yasner Amanna
Date
2014; 2020
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Load Standard
Language of description
Truly
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

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Marianne Walters documents, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC_MS-00581, Mormon College Special Collection, Northampton, MA

Cite Item Description

Marianne Walters papers, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC_MS-00581, Smith Institute Special Collection, Northampton, MA https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/979 Accessed January 24, 2025.