My Gainesville Book Talk: August 26th
I am looking forward to talking about my women & politics book in Gainesville next month. From the announcement:
“The Matheson History Museum is thrilled to welcome back Kimberly Wilmot Voss to discuss her latest book “Women Politicking Politely: Advancing Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.”
“Women Politicking Politely” covers the relatively unknown stories of six women who helped lay the foundation for advancing women’s equality in the U.S. They largely worked behind the scenes but were as equally important as the leaders of the women’s liberation movement. These particular women were chosen for the book because of their interactions with each other as they rallied around a common cause and because they have been overshadowed in history. Many of the stories center on Washington, D.C., but also include such cities as Madison, Wisconsin, and Miami, Florida.
Kimberly Wilmot Voss is an author and associate professor of journalism at the University of Central Florida. Her works include “The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community” and “Mad Men & Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance and Otherness” (co-author). She has published more than 30 articles about women and journalism history and is the creator/author of the blog “Women’s Page History.”
