The collection contains of publications, flyers, and posters relating to women and feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Portland, Oregon. The materials were compiled by Julia M. Allen, a graduate student and then professor at Portland State University.

A significant portion of the collection consists of newsletters from A Woman's Place, a feminist bookstore in Portland, dating from 1978 to early 1981. These newsletters include news and announcements about local women's groups and events, book reviews, classified advertisements, and poetry. In addition to the bookstore newsletter, there are several issues of Calyx, a women's literature and art journal published in Corvallis, Oregon; and two issues of Rag Times, a feminist monthly published in Portland. The collection also includes programs for the 2nd Annual Pacific Northwest Women's Music Festival and for "Building Community: Common Ground for the Future," a lesbian conference in Portland; a poster for Calyx; and flyers and posters for events. Some of the events represented in the flyers, posters, and programs or referenced in the newsletters were either organized by or attended by members of the Portland State University Women's Studies Certificate Program.

Other materials in the collection consist of a flyer against the Trojan nuclear plant; Muriel Rukeyser's poem "Myth"; a brochure for the band Izquierda; and an issue of Willamette Week with an article about Izquierda.