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.
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KC 2263
Russel H. Kirkhof Center
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, Michigan 49401
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229 LOH
616-331-8229
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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