Archival Collections
Catholics for Choice records, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00742, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Charlene Spretnak papers, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, SSC-MS-00828, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Documenting Lesbian Lives Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00661, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Helen Hills Hills Chapel collection, College Archives, CA-MS-01111, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Jewish Women Watching records, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00738, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion records, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00726, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Judith Plaskow papers, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00565, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Kay Gardner papers, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00523, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Margaret Brackenbury Crook Papers, Smith College Archives, CA-MS-00051, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Mary Daly papers, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00637, Smith College Special Collection, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Rev. Dr. Chris Davies queer clergy trading cards and related material, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, SSC-MS-00848, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse papers, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00202, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Saint Joan’s International Alliance, U.S. Section records, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00631, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Saralee Hamilton Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00629, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Student publications and student publications records, College Archives, CA-MS-01049, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Theological Opportunities Program records, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00567, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual Records, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00530, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Women’s Interfaith Institute records, Sophia Smith Collection, SSC-MS-00734, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Secondary Sources
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Gross, Rita. Feminism and Religion. Beacon Press, 1996.
Henold, Mary J. Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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Miller, Patricia. Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church. University of California Press, 2014.
Reagan, Leslie J. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in the United States, 1867-1973. University of California Press, 2022.
Religious Community for Reproductive Choice. “Who We Are.” Accessed April 14, 2026, https://www.rcrc.org/about/.
Schjonberg, Mary. “Interactive timeline of the history of women’s ordination.” Episcopal News Service, July 28, 2014. https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2014/07/28/ordination-timeline/.