Most WAR materials date from 1979 to 1984. The collection includes flyers,
correspondence, meeting minutes, background research, and proposal for the anti-rape
unit. Also included are general meeting minutes, correspondence, background
research, grant proposals, newsletters, photographs, flyers, posters, rape and
assault cases, as well as restricted surveys and questionnaires completed by victims
and MPS students. Background research materials include news clippings,
publications, and articles on various rape and assault cases, court proceedings, WAR
protests, and public perception and opinion on sexual violence.
Documents on direct action and feminist consciousness-raising are also in the
collection. Other administrative records include articles of incorporation, by-laws,
and a brief history of WAR's early years. Artifacts include WAR t-shirts, banners,
and anatomically correct instructional dolls. The dolls were used primarily to teach
the parts of the body taught in the first volume of a sex education program
developed by MPS called The Four Elements of Prevention: An
Abuse and Assault Prevention Program for Children and Adults.
