Women's Read-In 2014
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Transcript of Women's Read-In 2014
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership
of that freed self was another.”
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
Artwork displayed at the 2012 Women’s Read-In
“The arts are the rainforests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when
freedom is in danger.”
- June Wayne
American printmaker, tapestry designer,
painter, and educator
Participants in the 2012 Women’s Read-In singing and playing
musical instruments
“In human life, art may arise from almost any
activity, and once it does so, it is launched
on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance [...]”
- Susanne Langer (1895-1985), US
educator & philosopher
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Susanne_Langer/
Art against the odds: from slave quilts to prison
paintingsby Susan Goldman Rubin
Rubin defines "outsider artists" as "children and adults who felt
compelled to make different kinds of art despite living under the most
awful conditions." In this unique overview, she profiles artists, who often have little or no training, and have suffered incarceration, war, racism, poverty, or mental illness
while working.
King Library, Ground Floor, IMCN6505.5 .O87 R83 2004
“Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are
scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if
you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”
- Harriet Tubman
c. 1820-1913, American abolitionist
Harriet Tubman. In Ratcliffe, S.(Ed.), Oxford Essential Quotations. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 Feb. 2014, from http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191735240.001.0001/q-oro-00011037.
“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in
pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t
believe you can stand for freedom for one group of
people and deny it to others.”
“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you
earn it and win it in every generation.”
- Coretta Scott King, American author, activist,
and civil rights leaderhttp://www.theotherpages.org/quote/quote-27kl.html
FREE Women’s Read-In Giveaways!
“I would like to be known as a person who is
concerned about freedom and equality and justice
and prosperity for all people.”
“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I
was not alone. There were many others who
felt the same way.”
-Rosa Parks (1913-2005), US black civil rights
leaderhttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Rosa_Parks/
Maria W. Stewart was the first American woman to
speak to a mixed audience of men, women, whites and
blacks, and the first African-American woman to lecture about women’s rights and make public anti-slavery
speeches.
“… there are no chains so galling as the chains of
ignorance [...]”
http://quotes.dictionary.com/author/Maria+Stewart
Freedom Summer 1964 Memorial
Struggle for Women’s Rights and Civil Rights Linked
“[...] At the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840,
Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were refused seats on the floor by male abolitionists because they
were women.”
“As a result, Stanton and Mott vowed to hold a convention on women's rights, which they hosted in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. At the convention, delegates adopted a "Declaration of
Sentiments," a document modeled on the Declaration of Independence. It was signed by 68 women and 32 men,
including African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-yeakel/march-on-washington_b_3769211.html
Women in the trees: U.S. women’s short
stories about battering and resistance, 1839-
1994edited by Susan
Koppelman
King Library (2nd floor) PS648.A32 W66 1996
Walk myself home: an anthology to end violence against
women by Andrea Routley
King Library (2nd floor) PR9194.52.W66 W355
2010
FREE Women’s Read-In Giveaways!
What’s a nice girl like you doing in a
relationship like this?: Women in abusive
relationshipsedited by Kay Marie
Porterfield
King Library (2nd floor) PS509.W6 W45 1992
Getting out: life stories of women who left
abusive menby Ann Goetting
King Library (2nd floor) HV6626.2 .G65 1999
Check out the Women’s Read-In
page on our Diversity Guide
for more information and resources!
http://libguides.lib.miamioh.edu/diversity