“Listening to Progressive Women: The Virginia Feminist Oral History
Collection” by historian Megan Shockley, Monday, March, 19, 2018, 3-5 p.m.,
Cabell Library Lecture Hall
This event is free and open to the public. We hope you can attend. Please
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- *A talk “Listening to Progressive Women: The Virginia Feminist Oral
History Collection” by author Megan Shockley*
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*Event: March, 19, 2018, 3-5 p.m., James Branch Cabell Library, Lecture
Hall, 3rd floor. *
The Virginia Feminist Oral History Project, available through Special
Collections and Archives, documents the stories of women involved in
second-wave feminism and related women’s activism in Virginia. The
interviews were conducted by Megan Shockley, Ph.D., professor of history at
Clemson University as part of research for her new book, *Combating
Southern Patriarchy: Virginia Feminists and the Politics of Social
Change, *which
will be released by Louisiana State University Press in 2018. Shockley’s
donation of 24 audio recordings and corresponding transcripts makes it
possible for VCU Libraries to preserve and provide access to the voices of
second-wave feminists throughout Virginia.
In addition to her forthcoming book, Shockley is the author of *Changing
History: Virginia Women Through Four Centuries* (with Cynthia Kierner and
Jennifer Loux), Richmond: Library of Virginia Press, 2013; *The Captain’s
Widow of Sandwich: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess,
1834-1917*, New York: New York University Press, 2010; and *‘We, Too, Are
Americans’: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954*,
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
More information here:
https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2018/milestones-vcu-libraries-celebrates-3-millionth-volume-in-2018.html
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Ray Bonis
Senior Research Associate
Special Collections and Archives
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries
901 Park Ave. VCU Box 842033
Richmond, VA 23284-2033
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