Iowa City was a hotbed of women’s liberation in the 1970s, boasting women’s restaurants, coffeehouses, presses, bookstores, childcare centers, publications, and health clinics. The Women’s Liberation Front in Iowa City left many lasting legacies, among them the Women’s Resource and Action Center, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this academic year. In 1971 Iowa City womenContinue reading “Sisters, There’s a Women’s Center in Iowa City!”
Category Archives: Events
Centennial Celebration of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike
Please join the Iowa Women’s Archives for a uniquely Iowan perspective celebrating the centennial of the 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts, textile strike. The March 6 event, run as part of Women’s History Month, will premiere the play, “Bread, Roses and Buttons: Pearl McGill and the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike,” written by Janet Schlapkohl, an MFA candidate in the UniversityContinue reading “Centennial Celebration of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike”
Women’s Equality: Myth or Reality?
Women’s Equality: Myth or Reality? Speakers: Professor Linda K. Kerber May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of History and Lecturer in the College of Law, University of Iowa Professor Ann Laquer Estin Aliber Family Chair in Law, University of Iowa College of Law Alice Dahle Co-chair, Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Human RightsContinue reading “Women’s Equality: Myth or Reality?”
Women’s History Month events, March 21-25
The Iowa Women’s Archives will host events on feminist documentary filmmaking and on the Triangle Factory fire of 1911. Tuesday, March 22nd, 4:00 p.m., Iowa Women’s Archives, UI Main Library Award-winning filmmaker Marlene Booth will present a talk entitled “Tell Me a Story: Making and Learning From Documentary Films” on Tuesday, March 22nd. Born andContinue reading “Women’s History Month events, March 21-25”
March 2nd lecture: Black Sorority Activism
“WE STRIVE AND WE DO: BLACK SORORITY ACTIVISM AND THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE” The Iowa Women’s Archives kicks off Women’s History Month 2011 with a lecture on Wednesday, March 2nd, by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, Assistant Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Whaley is the author of Disciplining Women:Continue reading “March 2nd lecture: Black Sorority Activism”
Top Secret Rosies
In 1942 a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Top Secret Rosies shares the little known story of a group of female mathematicians who did secret research for the US Army during WWII, a handful of whom went on to serve as the programmers of ENIAC,Continue reading “Top Secret Rosies”
Winning the Vote
Celebrate Women’s Suffrage! August 26th marks the 90th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States. Here are a couple of ways to honor those courageous and determined women who fought for the vote: • Learn about Iowa women’s involvement in the suffrage movement through the exhibit Women’s Suffrage in Iowa:Continue reading “Winning the Vote”
June 17-19: Women’s & Gender History Conference in Dubuque
The fourth biennial conference of Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest (WGHOM) will be held on June 17, 18 and 19, 2010, at the Town Clock Center for Professional Development of Northeast Iowa Community College in Dubuque, Iowa. This conference will bring together scholars, educators, students and the public to explore current issues inContinue reading “June 17-19: Women’s & Gender History Conference in Dubuque”
There’s this thing called Lamaze. . .
On Wednesday, March 10th, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. we’ll be talking Lamaze in the Iowa Women’s Archives. We’ve joined forces with the UI History of Medicine Society and the Council on the Status of Women’s Herstory Committee to bring you some entertainment and enlightenment. Join us from 4:30 to 5:15 for cookies and conversation with old friends andContinue reading “There’s this thing called Lamaze. . .”
All About Eve
Our first women’s history month event features the work of Eve Drewelowe, who in 1924 became the first person to earn a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Iowa. The painting “Summertime with Sis and Soot” evokes Drewelowe’s Iowa childhood and on a day like today, with the sun shining and snow melting, I canContinue reading “All About Eve”