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Future of the Feminist 70s

This spring, the Bingham Center has partnered with the Program in Women's Studies to promote a series of readings, lectures, and film screenings that all speak to the continuing relevance of the feminist 70s. Download a poster of spring events [PDF].

Coming in February

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  • Intimate Wars: a Reading with Merle Hoffman
    Tuesday. February 7, 4pm in the Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
  • The Features (and Shorts) of the Feminist 70s: Sex & Revenge
    Wednesday, February 8, 8pm in the Richard White Auditorium, East Campus
  • Some Guy Named Art: Joni Mitchell and Female Masculinity in Classic Rock
    Miles Park Grier, Postdoctoral Associate, Women's Studies
    Thursday February 9, 5:45pm in the East Duke Parlors
  • Beyond the Friedan Mystique: Writing New Histories of the National Organization for Women
    Stephanie Gilmore, Postdoctoral Associate, Women's Studies
    Thursday, February 16, 5:45pm in the East Duke Parlors
  • Feminist Hieroglyphs: Rereading the Seventies
    Pre-print with Kimberly Lamm, Associate Professor, Women's Studies
    Wednesday, February 29, 10am in the East Duke Parlors

Image of buttons courtesy of Philadelphia NOW

Acting Across Borders: Celebrating the Meredith Tax Papers

taxOn April 13-14, 2012, the Bingham Center will host its 5th symposium. A writer and political activist since the late 1960s, Meredith Tax has founded or co-founded a series of feminist and social justice organizations starting with Bread and Roses, an early socialist-feminist group in Boston. Her 1970 essay, "Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Everyday Life," is considered a foundational text of the U.S. women’s liberation movement. Acting Across Borders will focus on the main questions Tax explored in this essay and throughout her work as a feminist: race, class, and internationalism.

The conference will start on Friday afternoon, April 13, 2012, with the two keynote addresses in Richard White Hall on East Campus, one by Meredith Tax and the other by radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher Patricia McFadden. On Saturday, April 14, in the Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library, there will be three plenary sessions in which speakers will be asked to frame their ideas as a personal narrative in order to give audience members a sense of their political journeys.

Read More on the Symposium Website

 

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Last published February 14, 2012 12:10:24 PM EST