"Sequels to the 1960s"

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites registration for its second annual Summer Seminar on Gender History, “Sequels to the 1960s,” to be held at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Plenary lectures by distinguished historians will examine the gender dynamics of political and social movements from the 1960s to the present in the United States. Grassroots organizing surged in the 1960s and 1970s across the political spectrum, from identity-based liberation movements, to environmentalism, to the New Right. Every movement had gender aims or aspects of its own. The week’s lectures and discussions will probe the historical linkages, the intersections and conflicts, and the consequences of various movements. The program will pursue what we can learn about gender history by examining the historical trajectories and transformations of these diverse movements for political and social change, which began just as feminists were redefining the meaning of the political.

The series of plenary sessions is open to the public, with registration required by June 6, 2008. For more information and to obtain a registration form, please click here.

Workshop groups in which participants will present their own work on relevant topics will also be part of the Summer Seminar.  For more information, please click here.