Schlesinger Library’s Summer Seminar on Gender History: Sequels to the 1960s

Plenary Lectures and Special Presentations Schedule

Monday, June 23, 9:15 a.m.: Ruling Reasons
    Nancy F. Cott, moderator

Marc Stein, “Inventing Rights and Wrongs: Rulings, Reception, and the US Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution”

Reva Siegel, “The Right's Reasons: Constitutional Conflict, Social Movement Dynamics, and the Rise of Woman-Protective Antiabortion Argument”

 

Tuesday, June 24, 9:15 a.m.: Sustaining Identities
    Robert Self, moderator

Marisela R. Chávez, "'We have a long, beautiful history': Chicana Feminist Trajectories and Legacies”

Barbara Ransby, "Black Feminism, Black Power, and Black Women's Organizing, 1970s–1990s"



Tuesday, June 24, 1:30–2:30 p.m.: Special Presentation

Freelance photographer Diana Mara Henry will discuss her work, and a selection of her photographs will be on display. Henry’s career in photojournalism spans four decades. She is best known for her coverage of Democratic politics and of the 1970s women’s movement, including her work as official photographer of the First National Women’s Conference (Houston, 1977). 


 
Wednesday, June 25, 9:15 a.m.: Minding Bodies
    Nancy A. Hewitt, moderator

Robert Self, “Gender, Citizenship, and Privacy in Social Movements and Law, 1965–1977"

Evelynn M. Hammonds, “Black Women’s Health Movements and the Limits of Self-Help”

 

Wednesday, June 25, 1:30–3 p.m.: Special Presentation
  
Ti-Grace Atkinson
and Erin Kelly will discuss “The Jane Alpert Affair and the Counterrevolutionary Turn in Radical Feminism.”
Ti-Grace Atkinson has been a leader in the women’s movement since its reincarnation in the US in the mid-1960s.
Erin Kelly is an associate professor of philosophy at Tufts University, with interests in moral and political philosophy.



Thursday, June 26, 9:15 a.m.: Abiding Frictions
    Robert Self, moderator

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, “Rethinking Global Sisterhood:  Peace Activism and Women’s Orientalism”

Nancy A. Hewitt, "Not Our Mothers' Movement: Historical Amnesia and the Attenuated Legacy of Feminist Struggles”

 

Friday, June 27, 9:15 a.m.: Contesting Constituencies
    Nancy F. Cott, moderator

Deborah Gray White, “The Million Mom March: The Perils of a Color-Blind Maternalism”

Judith Newton, “Changing Stories: ‘The Men's Movement,’ Compassion Politics, and the ‘New Evangelicals’”