Women’s History Month Keynote Lecture

LECTURE: Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College, discussed the efforts of women who are doubly marginalized due to their class or employment, to organize to win greater sociopolitical recognition and her voice in the workplace. Her book Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States analyzes how grass roots welfare activists forged a distinctive brand of feminism out of the political and cultural circumstances of their lives and in the process remapped the countours of radical politics and influenced the contested terrain of welfare policy, and Domestic Workers Unite! discusses the history of the domestic worker organizing the U.S.