Women’s History Month, Library Company of Philadelphia – Grand Old Women: How Abolitionists and Feminists Transformed Aging in America – Mar 14
Posted by Library Company of Philadelphia on March 12, 2024
Enjoy Grand Old Women: How Abolitionists and Feminists Transformed Aging in America by Dr. Corinne Field, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia, on Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 6:00 PM at the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Grand Old Women provides a collective biography of women who redefined aging in the 19th-century United States. Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Frances Harper were central advocates for abolition and women’s rights, but advancing those causes meant that these women needed to age in public. Despite the pervasive social stigma against old women and old maids, these women openly embraced oldness and, in doing so, created a new blueprint for the ways in which women could age.
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