The collection documents Kamen's career as a writer and journalist. The Paula Kamen Papers span the years 1970-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1991 to 2002.
Other series in the collection are Conferences and Engagements, with files relating to Kamen's frequent speaking engagements, particularly at universities Subject Files, an extensive array of clippings and articles maintained by Kamen on a wide range of feminist subjects primarily in the 1990s Audiovisual Materials, and Printed Materials. Works represented are the nonfiction books All In My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache, Feminist Fatale: Voices from the Twentysomething Generation Explore the Future of the Women's Movement, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution, and the plays Jane: Abortion and the Underground and Seven Dates with Seven Writers. Contains a Writings Series which includes research files, drafts, and publicity-related files for all of Kamen's major works as of 2006, as well as drafts of and materials related to articles and other shorter pieces written by Kamen. A focus of the collection, which spans the years 1971-2006, is on Generation X women, feminism, and sexuality. Kamen is also a frequent public speaker and has appeared at over 70 universities. Articles and book reviews by Kamen have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Ms., Chicago Tribune, among others, and more than a dozen anthologies. Kamen is a Chicago-based (current as of 2007) journalist, playwright, and the author of a number of books, including one of the first books to describe the third wave of feminism. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1989 from the University of Illinois. Paula Kamen was born in Chicago and grew up in Flossmoor, Illinois.
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