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Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein

Interviewee
Interviewer
Date
  • 8/1/2018
Description
  • The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project collection consists of interviews of 83 people for the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, conducted by Professor Judith Raiskin and Curator Linda Long at the University of Oregon starting in the summer of 2018.
Abstract
  • Toby was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, Crown Heights. She discusses the constraints of the neighborhood and racial tensions. Toby attended Hunter College from 1963 through 1969. She discusses traveling around the United States and settling on a lesbian communal farm in Missouri. There, she met Clare Kinberg, and together they travelled to the Pacific Northwest and visited Eugene. Toby discusses the City of Eugene anti-gay Referendum 51. She talks about moving to Eugene, lesbian social life, and alternative businesses in town. She discusses her interview at Starflower Natural Foods & Botanicals and describes the difficult consensus meetings there. She describes the butch/femme dynamic in the lesbian community, sexual relations, the practice of non-monogamy, marriage equality, and how women communicated with each other within the community. She discusses her work at Lane Community College. Toby married her longtime partner, Aggie Agapito, and talks about parenting with her. She concludes her interview by talking about aging and about the range of jobs lesbians had in Eugene.
Subject
Keyword
  • Marriage equality
  • Rainbow Rascals (Lesbian parenting group)
  • Collectives
  • Feminist bookstores
  • Amazon Kung Fu
  • Shit jobs
  • Baleboostehs
  • White flight
  • Dragon Wagon
  • Mother Kali’s Books
  • Springfield Creamery
Location
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon Libraries
Identifier
  • Coll520_do017
Repository
Local Collection Name
Local Collection ID
  • Coll 520
Finding Aid
Related URL
Institution
Modified
  • 01/22/2024
Collections

APA

Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, University of Oregon. (24 Apr 2024). Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/generics/df73c365s

MLA

Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, University of Oregon. "Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein" Oregon Digital. 24 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/generics/df73c365s

Chicago

Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, University of Oregon. "Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-24. https://oregondigital.org/concern/generics/df73c365s

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/generics/df73c365s | title= Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein |author= |accessdate= 2024-04-24 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Finkelstein, Toby http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/FinkelsteinToby
2 Raiskin, Judith L. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95069466
3 Long, Linda, 1956- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001035121
4 Assimilation (Sociology) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008793
5 Closeted gays http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93006732
6 Lesbians http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076160
7 Athletes http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009135
8 Lesbianism http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076157
9 Coming out (Sexual orientation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90005890
10 Oregon--Eugene http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79084636-781
11 College sports for women http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004010434
12 Lesbian teachers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003778
13 Aging http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002201
14 Morgen, Sandra http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86826969
15 Student movements http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129276
16 Communities http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029195
17 Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078421
18 Parenting http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098009
19 University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5758196/
20 University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003116678
21 Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/EugeneLesbianOralHistoryProject
22 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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