Library Week: Gender Studies Isn’t New Exhibit Launch

Gender-based attacks often coincide with moral panics about societal change. The sentiment behind these responses is often tied to the belief that something perceived as new or different is a threat when it has, instead, always been present but talked about in different or less immediately visible ways.

Since the Library’s Special Collections & Archive opened in 1976, items related to women, gender, and sexuality have actively been collected and maintained. This new exhibit features archival records that reflect the persistence of gender-based study, research, and activities over time, working to disrupt the notion that questioning and examination of gender in our daily lives is a new or unique phenomenon.

Drop by during Library Week on Tuesday October 3 from 11 a.m. to noon to view the exhibit and talk with SCA staff. The exhibit will stay up in Dana Porter’s first floor throughout the fall term.

Read more about the new exhibit on the Special Collections & Archives blog