The World Will Not Be the Same: How the United Nations International Women's Year Shaped Transnational Feminisms (APPROVED INT 100)
Thursday, March 13, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Faculty
Jocelyn Olcott, author of International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness Raising Event in History
In mid-June1975, thousands of people converged on Mexico City for the United Nations World Conference marking International Women’s Year (IWY). Billed as the “world’s largest consciousness-raising session,” the conference drew some twelve hundred delegates to the intergovernmental conference and an estimated six thousand more to a parallel nongovernmental organization (NGO) tribune.
In this talk, Dr. Jocelyn Olcott will discuss the game-changing role the IWY conference played in both fostering transnational feminist networks and impacting debates related to gender and development, including questions of what counts as economic activity.
Location Information
KC 2263
Russel H. Kirkhof Center
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, Michigan 49401
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Contact Information
229 LOH
616-331-8229
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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This event was added to the calendar by Ayana Weekley (weekleya@gvsu.edu) on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 and was last updated on Monday, February 17, 2025 at 10:13 a.m.
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