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Conference on 20th Century Women's Activism
NEW RESOURCES ON 20th CENTURY WOMEN?S
ACTIVISM
The Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, announces a
September 22-23, 2000 conference, AGENTS OF SOCIAL
CHANGE: CELEBRATING WOMEN?S PROGRESSIVE
ACTIVISM ACROSS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The
conference marks the opening for research of eight major
manuscript collections of women activists. Several of the
activists themselves will join third-wave feminists, processing
archivists, and scholars Linda Gordon, Linda Kerber, Barbara
Epstein, Dan Horowitz and others in exploring the research
potential and historical significance of these collections.
Papers include those of Dorothy Kenyon (1888-1972), feminist
attorney and judge; Jessie Lloyd O?Connor (1904-88), labor
journalist and pacifist; Mary Metlay Kaufman (1912-95), labor
attorney and civil liberties advocate; Constance Baker Motley
(1921- ), NAACP lawyer and first African American woman
appointed as a federal judge; Gloria Steinem (1932- ), feminist
leader and co-founder of Ms. magazine; Frances Fox Piven
(1934- ), welfare rights advocate; the Women?s Action Alliance
(1971-97), a national anti-sexism clearinghouse and advocacy
group; and the National Congress of Neighborhood Women
(1972- ), a support network for grassroots organizers of poor
and working-class women.
Taken together, the collections highlight women?s part in the
multiple struggles for social change that span the century ? labor,
socialism, peace, civil liberties, civil rights, as well as women?s
rights. They illuminate connections between the Old Left and the
New as well as the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, and class
within and among reform movements.
Scholars in search of research topics are especially encouraged
to attend. There are a few graduate student travel stipends
available. To receive more information and registration materials
(available late May), contact conference coordinator Joyce
Follet at jfollet@ais.smith.edu.
Burd Schlessinger (Ms.)
Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-2971
Fax: 413-585-2886
Email: bschless@ais.smith.edu
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