Wednesday, March 12 7-8:30 UER, Glickman Library, USM Women’s History Month Keynote Speaker: Dorothy Sue Cobble “LABOR FEMINISM AND THE FUTURE OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS”

Dorothy Sue Cobble is the author, most recently, of The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton, 2004) and The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Cornell, 2007). Her books challenge the conventional story of US women’s history and reveal an alternative and vibrant tradition of American feminism led by working women and their allies. Labor feminists proposed innovative solutions to problems that are increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address growing economic inequality. Cobble will show how their insights and the new labor movements they are inventing today are revitalizing the women’s movement of the 2lst century.