LTAI: Women's Suffrage is a program series designed to spark conversation about American history and culture through an examination of the women's suffrage movement.
This is the second of five online/in-person meetings hosted by Broward County Main Library.
Join a special book discussion on "Women Making History: The 19th Amendment Book," essays compiled by the National Park Services.
This conversation will be led by scholar Dr. Jane Caputi, a professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
For digital copies of the essays, click here: https://www.nps.gov/articles/series.htm?id=D908AE3C-A627-E454-A77BA5334A954A83
Limited hard copies of the book Women Making History: The 19th Amendment - Official National Park Service Handbook are available for Broward County Library patrons. Interested in a copy? Email Sebastian Perez sbperez@broward.org to make a request. Please note the books are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and can be distributed to Broward County Library patrons only. Thank you.
Scholar's bio:
Jane Caputi is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Her doctorate is in American Culture Studies. At FAU, Dr. Caputi has won the University Distinguished Teacher Award (2001) and was twice named University Researcher of the Year for Scholarly Activities, Professor level (2005 and 2013). In 2016, the Popular Culture Association named her their “Eminent Scholar of the Year” and in 2020 the Association for the Study of Women in Mythology gave her their annual “Saga Award” for contributions to women’s history and culture. In 2013. Palm Beach County NOW (National Organization of Women gave her their annual Susan B. Anthony Feminist of the Year Award.
Dr. Caputi has written four books: The Age of Sex Crime (1987); Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth (1993); Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture (2004); and Call Your “Mutha’” A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene (2020). This last book is in a series on Heretical Thought and was published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Caputi also has made two educational documentaries The Pornography of Everyday Life (2006), distributed by Berkeley Media and Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth (2016), distributed by Women Make Movies.
Upcoming conversation dates and titles:
LTAI: Women’s Suffrage is a humanities discussion project from the American Library Association (ALA) supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
AGE GROUP: | New Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Speaker | Online/Virtual | Discussion/Lecture | Clubs & Groups | Books |
Mon, Apr 29 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
Tue, Apr 30 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Wed, May 01 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
Thu, May 02 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Fri, May 03 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sat, May 04 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sun, May 05 | Closed |