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The Unexpected Revolution
A Celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the League
of Women Voters and the passage of the 19th amendment to the United
States Constitution
Thursday, February 25, 7:15 p.m.
Blacksburg Town Council Chambers
The Fear of ‘Petticoat Politics:’ Why Women As Well As Men Opposed Woman Suffrage
by Marian Mollin
Marian
Mollin is associate professor and associate chair of the Department of
History at Virginia Tech. Her research explores the connections between
gender, protest, activism, and culture, with a focus on the history of
American social movements.
Her first
book, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) examines the complex nature of
men’s and women’s political protest within the radical wing of the
American peace movement from 1940 through 1970. She is working on a
biography of Sister Ita Ford, one of the four churchwomen murdered by
the El Salvadoran military in 1980. Ford’s life provides a opportunity
to explore how gender and religious faith intersected to shape identity
and participation in transnational efforts for social justice. |
Difference or Equality? Women’s Policy Initiatives after Suffrage
by Karen Holt
Karen
Hult, a League member, has been a professor in the Department of
Political Science at Virginia Tech since 1990. She is a national expert
on the presidency. Among her recent publications is a book co-authored
with Charles Walcott, Governing the White House: From Hoover through
LBJ which was honored with the 1996 Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best
Book on the U.S. Presidency published in 1995.
Among
her publications are Empowering the white House: Governance under
Nixon, Ford and Carter, Women as Executive Branch Leaders Rethinking
Madam President: Are We Ready for a Woman in the White House and Local
community Groups and the Internet. |
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