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Umaine’S Wgs Department Celebrates Women’S History Month, Megan Ashe

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

March is well known as Women’s History Month and contains notable holidays like International Women’s Day and The Day of the Girl. Every year, many events celebrate the accomplishments of women and aim to bring light to gender inequality. The women’s, gender, and sexuality (WGS) department at the University of Maine is celebrating this month by hosting a series of events that students can access through their social media pages on Facebook and Instagram.

Oral Interview: Contextualizing The Women's Rights Movement In Tunisia Through Family History, Walid Zarrad

Papers, Posters, and Presentations

In their path towards emancipation and equal rights, Tunisian women have gone through a number of phases that seem to be directly linked to legal changes and cultural factors. In fact, the Code of Personal Status (CPS) of 1956 seems to be a milestone in the women’s movement, and its following amendments continued on this path. However, it is a lot more complex than that. A piece of legislation officially passing is not a simple determinant of the state of Women’s Rights in a country.

Through Dorra Mahfoudh Draoui’s “Report on Gender and Marriage in Tunisian Society” and my interview …

A Civil Society: The Public Space Of Freemason Women In France, 1744–1944, James Smith Allen

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

A Civil Society explores the struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France’s civil society and its “civic morality” on behalf of women’s rights. As a vital component of the third sector during France’s modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture.

James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society, including the promotion of …

The South African Women's Movement: The Roles Of Feminism And Multiracial Cooperation In The Struggle For Women's Rights, Amber Michelle Lenser

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the historiography of South Africa’s recent past, focus has been most heavily placed on apartheid and the anti-apartheid movement, with much emphasis placed on male involvement and men as the primary agents of change in the country. Women are largely viewed as playing a supportive role to male activists throughout the movement, and far less has been written on female involvement or women’s activism in its own right. Running parallel to the anti-apartheid movement, however, was a women’s movement characterized by women across the racial and socioeconomic spectrum struggling to secure their own rights in a very hostile and …

The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement, Amy Y. Evrard

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Among various important efforts to address women’s issues in Morocco, a particular set of individuals and associations have formed around two specific goals: reforming the Moroccan Family Code and raising awareness of women’s rights. Evrard chronicles the history of the women’s rights movement, exploring the organizational structure, activities, and motivations with specific attention to questions of legal reform and family law. Employing ethnographic scrutiny, Evrard presents the stories of the individual women behind the movement and the challenges they faced. Given the vast reform of the Moroccan Family Code in 2004, and the emphasis on the role of women across …

Lavinia Dock: Adams County Suffragette, Mary Lou Schwartz

Adams County History

In the aftermath of the anniversary celebrations held to commemorate women's right to vote, it is fitting to remember an Adams county resident who figured prominently in the most militant phase of the suffrage campaign-Lavinia Lloyd Dock.

Lavinia Dock was born February 26, 1858, the second child of Gilliard and Lavinia Lloyd Bombaugh Dock. Gilliard, who had attended Gettysburg College, was a well-to-do engineer and machinist. Both parents were liberal in their views. Lavinia said that "Father had some whimsical masculine prejudices, but Mother was broad on all subjects and very tolerant and charitable towards persons." Although the family, eventually …

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 07/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Letter re: the murder of Charlie Howard
• Letter from Doris Raven Darkwing Foster
• Calendar Events
• YWCA of Lewiston/Auburn; Youth Intervention Programs
• The 4th New England Women's Musical Retreat
• The 9th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
• Third Annual Healing Ritual Gathering
• Interweave Benefit Concert in Memory of Charlie Howard

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 06/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar Events
• In Case You're Interested...
• Emma Dyke Advice Column
• Take Back the Night - 1984: Pornography and Violence Against Women by Lucie Bauer

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar Events
• Take Back the Night 1984 Coalition
• Waldoboro Days Triathalon
• National March for Lesbian/Gay Rights
• In Case You're Interested...
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 03-04/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• UMO Womyn's Center Womyn's Health Symposium on Sexism, Racism, Classism and Health Care
• Worry Column

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 02/1984, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar of Events
• Boycott Nestle Products
• Support Christine Madsen
• Books
• Personals
• Valentine's Day Dance
• The Worry Column
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 12/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• News
• Personals
• Courses
• A Chain Letter for Liberated Women
• Books

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 10/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar of Events
• What's New?
• Singing & Marching for Peace & Justice at Seneca Falls
• The Worry Column

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 08/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• The Worry Column
• What's Going On
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 07/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• News
• Calendar July & August
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 06/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• What's New
• Books
• Poetry
• New Hope for Women Antique/Craft Fair

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• 10th Annual Maine Lesbian & Gay Symposium, University of Southern Maine
• Announcements
• Poetry
• Can I Lust With Integrity?
• On Building a Feminist Spiritual Community
• Personals

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 04/1983, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar of Events
• Let's Build Feminist Community
• More on JoAnn Newak
• Movies: Lianna
• Personals
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 09/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• The Female Paul Revere
• Gay Community News Offices Burn
• A Call For Material Out From Under: Sober Dykes and Our Friends
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 08/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• SBA Club Announcements
• Announcements
• Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
• Gay Dollar$ for Gay People

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 06/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Susan B. Anthony Club Announcements
• The Feminist Writer's Guild
• Announcements, Happenings, Things to Do, Places to Go!!
• I.G.A. Meets in Washington, D.C.
• United for Disarmament
• Poetry
• Kay Gardner: Benefit Concert for New Hope for Women

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1982, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• S.B.A. Club Announcements
• A Repeat of Some Important News...
• Announcements, Happenings, Things to Do, Places to Go!!!
• Poetry

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 10/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• MLF Announcements
• Women Unite Take Back the Night
• Regarding the Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 09/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Calendar
• Announcements

Maine Lesbian Feminist 08/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Meeting Minutes
• Sexuality Workshop
• Next Meeting and Directions
• Agenda
• Calendar
• Announcements
• Maine Women for a Nuclear Free Future

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 05/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Meeting News
• Newsletter News
• Financial News
• State News
• Conferences and other events
• Resources
• Special Events
• Sexuality Workshop
• Calendar

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 04/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Meeting Minutes
• Agenda
• Calendar
• Maine Lesbian and Gay Symposium VII
• Mothers Day March

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 03/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Meeting Minutes
• Agenda
• Calendar - Local Events
• More Publications
• National News and Events

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 02/1981, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• Minutes: December-January
• Agenda
• Calendar of Local Events
• National Events
• Publications
• Announcements
• Poetry
• The United Health Care Project: Quality Health Care for Lesbians and Gays

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter 11/1980, Maine Lesbian Feminist

Maine Lesbian Feminist Newsletter (1976-1984)

• The Susan B. Anthony Club
• Calendar of Events
• Events and Happenings
• Announcements & Information
• Lesbian Photographer's Directory Now Being Compiled