- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Papandreou, Margarita
- Title:
- Margarita Papandreou Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3197xm09r
- Dates:
- 1972-1992 (mostly 1975-1985)
- Size:
- 27 boxes and 10.5 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes 1-26; B-000833
- Language:
- Greek, Modern English
Abstract
Consists of selected papers of former First Lady of Greece and international women's rights activist, Margarita Papandreou.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of selected papers of Margarita Papandreou. There is correspondence (1981-1985), in English and Greek, received by Papandreou and her husband, Andreas Papandreou, prime minister of Greece (1981-1989, 1993-1996), concerning personal and business matters, and some affairs of state. The bulk of the papers consists of speeches, articles, interviews, and printed matter, by and about Papandreou, relating to her involvement in the Greek Union of Women, a socialist feminist group she founded in 1976 (president, 1980-1989), the First Ladies Conference on Drug Abuse at the United Nations (1985), and the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace (1975-1985), held in Nairobi, Kenya (1985). Also present are copies of the PAK Newsletter (1972-1974), a publication of the Panhellenic Liberation Movement in North America, and many newspaper clippings in Greek.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Papandreou, Margarita
Former First Lady of Greece, Margarita Papandreou was an international feminist leader, peace movement activist, diplomat, and author who founded the Women's Union of Greece. She was married to Andreas Papandreou, who served as Greece's Prime Minister from 1981-1989 and 1993-1996.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of the author in 1992 and 1993 (AM 1993-95, AM 1993-126).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory prepared by Gregory Kohles '2013 in 2011.
Finding aid updated by Faith Charlton in December 2016.
General correspondence materials were treated for mold in 2016.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
General correspondence materials are water damaged and in poor condition.
- Credit this material:
Margarita Papandreou Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3197xm09r
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes 1-26; B-000833
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- Subject Terms:
- Drug abuse -- Congresses.
Feminists -- Greece -- 20th century.
Socialism -- Greece -- 20th century -- Sources.
Women -- Greece -- Social conditions -- 20th century --Sources.
Women authors, Greek -- 20th century -- Sources.
Women pacifists--Greece--History--20th century--Sources.
Women political activists--Congresses--Sources.
Women's rights -- Greece -- 20th century --Sources.
Women--Political activity--Greece--Sources. - Genre Terms:
- Audio cassettes -- 20th century.
Correspondence -- 20th century
Interviews -- 20th century.
Newsletters -- 20th century.
Press releases -- 20th century.
Speeches -- 20th century. - Names:
- World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women (1985 : Nairobi, Kenya)
Panhellenic Liberation Movement (Greece)
Papandreou, Andreas George
Sheinbaum, Stanley K. - Places:
- Greece -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources.
Greece -- Politics and government -- 1974--- Sources.
