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Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner
15th Annual Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College
March 1-2, 2013
Free and Open to the Public
Featuring: The keynote Address by Women’s Historian Alice Kessler Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and Author of A Difficult Woman The Challenging Life and Times of [...]

Though many feminists today turn to the State for solutions to the discrimination and oppression that women face, there is a long feminist tradition in America that is wary of government. Most notably, in the late 19th and early 20th century, anarchist feminists Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman spoke out against the strictures of [...]