Conversation & Panel Discussion

Nevertheless, She Persisted: 30 Years of Women Writing Women’s Lives

Mon, Oct 5, 2020

3:00 PM–6:00 PM

This event will take place online via Zoom. Please register below.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage and WWWL’s 30th anniversary, the Women Writing Women’s Lives seminar will host an online celebration, open to the public. Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore, two of WWWL’s original members, will present: “Nevertheless, They Persisted: Writing Women’s History from Second Wave Feminism and Beyond.”

Three panels will follow, each with an audience Q&A:

Nevertheless, Our Foremothers Persisted: Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of U.S. Women’s Suffrage

Nevertheless, Our Subjects Persisted: Pushing Boundaries in Their Chosen Fields

Nevertheless, We Persisted: Challenges in Research, Writing and Publishing Biographies of Women

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Photo credits: (Left): Honor Moore, 2015, photo by Brittany Ambridge. (Right) Alix Kates Shulman, photo by Sara Krulwich.

The Women Writing Women’s Lives seminar meeting.

Co-sponsored by The Center for the Humanities, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, The CUNY Graduate Center’s PhD Programs in History and English, MA Program in Liberal Studies, MA Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, The Leon Levy Center for Biography, andThe Feminist Press.