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 fourth of five online/in-person meetings hosted by Broward County Main Library.
Join a special book discussion on "Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells" by Michelle Duster. This conversation will be led by scholar Dr. Jane Caputi, a professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
Book abstract:
Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator.” In the annals of history, it makes her an icon.
Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of an pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated—a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for white passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP. Written by Wells’s great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, this “warm remembrance of a civil rights icon” (Kirkus Reviews) is a unique visual celebration of Wells’s life, and of the Black experience.
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.
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 22 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
Tue, Apr 23 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Wed, Apr 24 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
Thu, Apr 25 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Fri, Apr 26 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sat, Apr 27 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sun, Apr 28 | Closed |