Conference: Re-Reading the Feminist Sixties

Fifty years after Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark bill that added sex to anti-discrimination law, this conference looks at feminism during a decade that began with liberal reform and exploded into calls for fundamental changes in work, politics, family, and social life. Conference panels will focus on work, social movements (with a focus on economic, racial, and sexual justice), and politics, seen in the activism of pioneer women in Congress Patsy Mink, Bella Abzug, and Shirley Chisholm.  Distinguished speakers will explore topics including Chicana experiences of welfare and low-wage work; gender, class, and labor as they impacted women working in 1960s Wall Street; the Communist legacy for Black Feminism; and the intersections and divergences between the Asian American and feminist movements.