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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>The
Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard Presents: <br><br>
<font size=4><b><i>Preserving Women's History at Harvard and Radcliffe
with Nancy Cott<br><br>
</i></b></font>Wednesday, June 1, 12:00-1:15 pm <br>
Living Room, Cronkhite Graduate Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study, 6 Ash Street. <br>
<i>Lunch will be served</i>.<br><br>
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, part of
Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is one of
the University's treasures. The Schlesinger collects books and
periodicals, manuscripts, photographs, and other archival materials
essential for understanding the lives and activities of women in the
United States. Nancy Cott, Pforzheimer Director of the Schlesinger
Library and Trumbull Professor of American History, will discuss the
forces outside Harvard -- feminism, the peace movement, international
organizations of women, and the advent of World War II -- that led to the
founding of the Women's Archives.<br><br>
Note: The Schlesinger Library reopened this spring after an
extensive renovation. There will be tours of the library both before and
after Professor Cott's talk available to the first 15 people who sign up
in each time slot. (The Library is a very short walk from the Cronkhite
Center.)<br><br>
Tour 1: 11:30 to 12 <br><br>
Tour 2: 1:10-1:40<br><br>
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RSVP: email ccw@harvard.edu, by Friday, May 27, with the word
"registration" in the subject line. If you would like to
participate in a Schlesinger Library tour, add "Tour 1" or
"Tour 2" to the subject line. <br><br>
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About the presenter: Nancy Cott came to Harvard in 2002 from Yale
University, where she taught for 26 years and chaired the Women's Studies
and American Studies programs. A U.S. historian focusing on issues of
women and gender, she helped establish the field of women's history with
her path-breaking 1977 book, <i>The Bonds of Womanhood</i>. Since then,
Professor Cott said, her interests "have been very much at one with
the development of the field, in moving from uncovering women and
enabling the 'inarticulate' to speak to understanding that gender is
operative in all spheres of political, social, cultural life." Her
most recent book, <i>Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the
Nation</i> (Harvard University Press, 2000), investigates ways the
personal and the political intersect in the institution of
marriage.<br>
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Nancy Cott's scholarship has been recognized by fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Charles Warren Center, and others. In addition to the books named above,
her works include <i>The Grounding of Modern Feminism</i> (1987), <i>A
Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard through her Letters</i> (1991),
and numerous articles. At Harvard, she teaches in the areas of United
States social history and history of the family.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
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