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Acting Across Borders: The Future of the Feminist 1970s

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Saturday, April 14, 2012
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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.

Contact: Kelly Wooten