Monday, March 12, 2012

Acting Across Borders: Celebrating the Meredith Tax Papers

The 5th symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture

Friday, April 13- Saturday, April 14, 2012

Duke University, Durham, NC

Free and open to the public

Meredith Tax, writer and political activist since the late 1960s, 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.

Full schedule and registration information online:

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/borders

Featuring notable feminist activists, writers, and scholars:

Meredith Tax, writer and political activist

Patricia McFadden, radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher

Anissa Helie, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Ann Snitow. Director, Gender Studies Program, Eugene Lang College

Mandy Carter, National Coordinator, Bayard Rustin Centennial 2012 Project, National Black Justice Coalition

Amber Hollibaugh, Interim Director, Queers for Economic Justice

Fran Ansley, Professor Emeritus, College of Law, University of Tennessee

Mia Herndon, Executive Director, Third Wave Foundation

Gita Sahgal, Women’s and Human Rights Activist; former head of Amnesty International's Gender Unit

Ynestra King, Writer and Eco-feminist

Jaclyn Friedman, Writer, Educator, Activist, Boston, MA

Co-sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Libraries, Franklin Humanities Institute, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Program in Women's Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture. Part of the Future of the Feminist 70s series hosted by the Program in Women’s Studies.

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