Acting Across Borders: The Future of the Feminist 1970s
Saturday, April 14, 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. (Full schedule available on symposium website)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.