Women at the Center

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"Women at the Center" is published twice a year. In addition to the newsletter, members of our mailing list will receive occasional notices about events throughout the year. We do not share our mailing list with other organizations. 

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Online Issues

  • Spring, 2024 newsletter: 2024-2025 research travel grant recipients; Rosetta Reitz Musical Archive of Care; Beyond the Bingham Center; classes supported during the spring semester.

  • Fall, 2023 newsletter: Feminist Self Defense Movement; Mandy Carter: Scientist of Activism exhibit events; Researcher articles about the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Papers; Recent Acquisitions and classes supported during the fall semester.

  • Spring, 2023: Travel grant recipients; Mandy Carter: Scientist of Activism exhibit and opening event;  Rosetta Reitz Musical Archive of Care, and more
  • Fall, 2022: The Abortion Decision exhibit; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grant recipient, Jennifer Doyle reports on her vsit to the Bingham Center; Josephine Napoleon Leary book and exhibit, and more
  • Spring, 2022: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Papers open for research; Writing and Talking about Memoir with Sallie Bingham; Celebrating the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, and more
  • Fall, 2021 : Remembering Pauline Bart; Anna Henshaw Gardiner papers now online; flashback to 1970, and more
  • June 2021: Exploring the Brown Papers; Looking Back on Our Suffrage Commemoration; and more
 

Past Issues

  • Issue 38, Fall 2020: Beyond Supply and Demand: Duke Economics Students and Women’s Suffrage in the U.S.; "Would You Buy a Comic Book From This Woman?" by Sagan Thacker; Creative Teaching with Primary Sources Online; New Books From Sallie Bingham
  • Issue 37, Spring 2020: Letter from Director Laura Micham; "In Search of Their Anti-Racist Lineage" by Amanda Mixon; Kate Millett Correspondence Open to Research; Mary Lily Research Grant Recipients, 2020-2021; Collection Highlight: Serena K. Dandridge; Women’s Work in the Time of Pandemic
  • Issue 36, Fall 2019: Inside Story+ by Sonia Fillipow; "Kathy Acker, A Punk Female Divine" by Chiara Amoretti; New in Print: Her Neighbor’s Wife; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection exhibition and events
  • Issue 35, Spring 2019: Remembering Anne Firor Scott; "Curating the Self: Dawn Langley Simmons and Transgender History" by Adrian Kane; Art and Artists in the Archives; Mary Lily Research Grant Recipients, 2019-2020
  • Issue 34, Fall 2018: Five Hundred Years of Women's Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection on Exhibit; Two New Scrapbooks on Women and Health; Sinister Wisdom Comes Home to Durham; Profiles in Research: "Why Are You Constantly Harassing Us on the Street" by Molly Brookfield
  • Issue 33, Spring 2018: Emma Goldman Papers Now Online; YWCA: The First Multicultural Women's Organization; Collection Highlight: Joan Little Papers; The Change of Life: Menopause Exhibit and Dramatic Reading
  • Issue 32, Fall 2017: Breaking Every Taboo: Remembering Kate Millett; The Life and Loves of Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge; Jeanne Audrey Power, Subversive To the End
  • Issue 31, Spring 2017: Batya Weinbaum: a Maverick in Her Field; Profiles in Research: Hanne Blank; Edith Sitwell: "an Unpopular Electric Eel;" Mary Lily Research Grant 2017-2018 Recipients; Sojourner Truth Broadside
  • Issue 30, Fall 2016: Alice Margery New and the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage; Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of The Ladder; Love and Liberation in the Archives 
  • Issue 29, Spring 2016: The Nuns of Ripoli Press; Profiles in Research: Donna J. Drucker; 2016 Mary Lily Research Grant Recipients; Ayun Halliday's "East Village Inky" Joins Zine Collections
  • Issue 28, Fall 2015: Mab Segrest Papers; Archiving and Researching LGBTQ Lives; Drew Gilpin Faust Remarks; A New Look at Florence Nightingale; Heralding the Way to a New World Exhibit from the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
  • Issue 27, Spring 2015: Jean Kilbourne Papers; Jeanne Audrey Powers Papers; 2015-16 Mary Lily Grant Awardees; Profiles in Research: Georgina Colby on Kathy Acker; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
  • Issue 26, Fall 2014: Judy Woodruff Papers; Feminist Pedagogy and Queer Writing Practices; Alix Kates Shulman's Feminist Memoirs; Profiles in Research: Mairead Sullivan
  • Issue 25, Spring 2014: Writing Women at Duke into Wikipedia; Profiles in Research: Lauren Gutterman; Laura Micham Honored with Career Achievement Award; Behind the Scenes with Samantha Crisp; Zine Librarians (un)Conference
  • Issue 24, Fall 2013: Sallie Bingham Center 25th Anniversary; Ipas 40th anniversary; Betsy Gamble Hansen Papers; Profiles in Research: Robin Robinson
  • Issue 23, Spring 2013: Power of This Story: Activism in Durham (Women's Studies Senior Seminar)
  • Issue 22, Fall 2012: Make Your Own History; What Does it Mean to be an Educated Woman E-Book
  • Issue 21, Spring 2012: Ann Snitow Papers; Book Artists' Archives
  • Issue 20, Fall 2011: Merle Hoffman Endowment; Feminist Art at the Nasher
  • Issue 19, Spring 2011: Theresa El-Amin Papers; Profiles in Research: Dorothy Q. Thomas
  • Issue 18, Fall 2010: Dorothy Allison Papers; Ladyslipper Inc. Records
  • Issue 17, Spring 2010: Book + Art Exhibit; Muriel Henderson Papers
  • Issue 16, Fall 2009: Symposium Honoring Jean Fox O'Barr; Pauline Bart Papers; "I Take Up My Pen" Exhibit
  • Issue 15, Spring 2009: Proud Shoes: Pauli Murray's Life and Legacy; Susan Hill, An Uncommon Heroine; 
  • Issue 14, Fall 2008: The Joy of Asking a Good Question (Sara Evans and Margaret Taylor Smith); Primary Documents in the Classroom; Scholar Teas; 20th Anniversary Photos
  • Issue 13, Spring 2008: Bingham Center 20th Anniversary; My Life in Zines; Hands-on Learning in the Classroom
  • Issue 12, Fall 2007: Neither Model Nor Muse Symposium and Exhibits; ARL 75th Anniversary Publication; 30 Years in the Garden (RCWMS); Kentucky Foundation for Women; Mary Margaret Wade; Zines at Girls Rock NC Camp
  • Issue 11, Spring 2007: Minnie Bruce Pratt; Zine Database; Mandy Carter
  • Issue 10, Fall 2006: Bitchfest reading and interview with Lisa Jervis; Martha Hodes reads from The Sea Captains Wife; Throw Like a Girl Dramatic Reading
  • Issue 9, Spring 2006: Pink Corset Book and interview with Tamar Stone; Drewey Wayne Gunn Gay Fiction Collection; Prescriptive Literature Database
  • Issue 8, Fall 2005: Generational Feminisms Symposium; Word of a Woman Exhibit; Interview with Jocelyn Olcott; Ladyfest NC; Mary Wager Fisher Papers
  • Issue 7, Spring 2005: Paula Kamen; Bobbye and Viki Ortiz; Feminists of Faith; Women and Electoral Politics Dramatic Reading
  • Issue 6, Summer 2004: Faulkner Fox; Dawn Langley Simmons; Betty McMahan
  • Issue 5, Summer 2003: Abortion Symposium; Irene Peslikis; Mrs. Ruth Finlay; Sisterhood is Forever
  • Issue 4, Winter 2003: Kathy Acker; Takey Crist; Projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile
  • Issue 3, Spring 2002: Robin Morgan; WILPF; Merle Hoffman; Online Collections
  • Issue 2, Fall 2001: Beyond Nancy Drew Exhibit; Anne Firor Scott; Cora and Joseph Harrington Letters; Ladyfet Midwest; Artists' Books by Women
  • Issue 1, Spring 2001: Sarah Dyer Zine Collection; Tolles Family Papers; Kate Millett; A Woman's Place Exhibit