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Summary Information
Jeanne Arnold Papers
1977-2009
UWP Manuscript Collection 17
UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)C19/B5
Jeanne Arnold (formerly Jeanne Chalekian) and Barbara
Lindquist are lesbian feminist authors of Racine, WI. During the 1970’s, they worked
at St. Luke’s hospital. In 1977, workers at the hospital staged a strike. Arnold, a
journalist, kept a chronicle of the six-week incident. The women further founded
Mother Courage Bookstore and Art Gallery in Racine in 1978 to promote feminism and
to establish a gathering place for women. In 1981 Phyllis E. Sweet asked them to
publish her manuscript entitled Something Happened to Me, which addressed child
sexual abuse. Mother Courage Press published 50,000 copies domestically and
internationally. The work was translated into Hebrew, Dutch and Spanish. The press
eventually published 26 books on the theme of abuse, feminism, feminist
spirituality, and lesbianism. In 2004, Arnold began a series of seven books--memoirs
entitled, Whistling Girls and Crowing Hens.
English
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