Anarchism, Feminism, and the Midwest – Women’s History Month Talk
To kick off Women’s History Month, join us for a virtual talk by Dr. Michelle Campbell on Wed., March 10th from 4:00-5:00pm.
Contemporary stereotypes depict the Midwest as uniformly conservative and featureless, both in terms of its landscape and the character of its people. To the contrary, leftist radicalism has deep roots in both the urban and rural Midwest. Nineteenth-century Midwestern anarchist women writers were fully Midwesterners and anarchists; they joined the Midwestern ideals of agrarian individualism, the “pioneer spirit,” and the sanctity of labor to the anarchist values of anti-statism, anti-capitalism, and feminism. This talk will explore our Midwestern radical pasts to look toward our Midwestern radical futures.
Join the talk at the link below or tune into the livestream on Facebook @MSUMWomensCenter.
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/93168470603
Dr. Michelle M. Campbell holds a Ph.D. in English (2019) with a focus in Nineteenth-Century American Literature from Purdue University. Her literary studies research fuses Midwestern Studies, Nineteenth-Century American Literary and Cultural Studies, Anarchist Studies, and Gender Studies. In addition to her various peer-reviewed publications, she helped to recover the Midwestern anarchist-feminism novel “Hagar Lyndon,” which was re-published by Hastings College Press (2019). Currently, she is a Communications Consultant in Graduate Communications and Intercultural Programs in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.
Free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend. For more Women’s History Month events, follow @MSUMWomensCenter on Facebook, @MSUMWomensCtr on Twitter, or @msumwc_rdc on Instagram.