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The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in Duke's Rubenstein Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

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Hoffman Gift Endows Center Directorship

Award-winning journalist, activist, and women's healthcare pioneer Merle Hoffman has pledged $1 million to endow the directorship of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. Hoffman is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of On the Issues Magazine, and her autobiography, Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room, was published in January 2012.
     Merle Hoffman will be reading from her memoir, Intimate Wars, on Tuesday, February 7 at 4pm in the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library.

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