Lesbian Elders Oral History Project: Interview with Toni McNaron

Titles: Lesbian Elders Oral History Project: Interview with Toni McNaron (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Born April 3, 1937. Grew up in Fairfield, Alabama (near Birmingham). Men in family worked at steel mill; mother taught after McNaron's father died. One older sister. Received master's degree from Vanderbilt University (1958). Doctorate from University of Wisconsin - Madison. Came to the University of Minnesota in 1964. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life in Alabama; trying to date while in college; first lesbian relationship, once she was teaching; the decision to leave the South; racial tension in the South; trying to make it in academia as a woman; early relationships; other lesbian faculty members; starting the women's studies program at the University in 1973; three years as chair of women's studies; founding the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies; problems with alcohol; the decision to come out to her friends in 1973; coming out at work in 1976; her current long-term relationship; the loss of a lesbian community; the trend that some young lesbian students now want nothing to do with feminism.

Dates

• 01/07/1997 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: McNaron, Toni A. H.
• interviewer: Weiland, Mary R.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 67
• Accession Number: AV1999.251.2

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Lesbian Elders Oral History Project' <OH 67>

Quantity: 1.5 hours sound cassette 15 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:52:03 running time

Subjects

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