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Chapter 1     Beginnings
                                                The first years of the organization and the Bay Area Feminist Federal Credit Union                                    

Chapter 2     Brady Street Days              
                                                The first office of the San Francisco Women's Centers and the conference on violence against women               

Chapter 3     The Women’s Building Project
                                                 The project that led to the purchase of the Women's  Building

                         Theatrical Interlude She Rises Like a Building to the Sky, Act I                   

Chapter 4     San Francisco Women's Centers in Transition
                                                 Keeping the San Fransisco Women's Centers going.               



Chapter 5     Settling into the Building     
                                                 Moving in and figuring out how to run a building, including debates over who could rent space.

Theatrical Interlude: She Rises Like a Building to the Sky, Act II              

Chapter 6     Operating the Building as Political Action
                                                 The maturation of the organization and learning how to use the building to support their politics.


Chapter 7     Radical Roots and Rich Relations
                                                 Two organizations with special ties to the Women's Building, the Alliance Against Women's Oppression
                                                  and The Women's Foundation               

Chapter 8     Organizing in the 1980s
                                                A review of conferences supported and sponsored by the Women's Building                        

Chapter 9     Re-Visioning the Organization
                                                Transitioning from a collective structure to a traditional non-profit board and staff                       

Chapter 10    Re-Visioning the Building
                                                The campaign to retrofit the building and redesign to better serve its base, including the
                                                  eviction of the Dovre Club bar.                      

Chapter 11    Epilogue      
                                                A brief survey of The Women's Building in the 10 years after the retrofit is completed
                               

Appendix      Sponsored Projects List    

 

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