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Pages at the Prop feat. The Century of Women by Dr. Maria Bucur
March 10, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
$10
Book Reading and Signing for Indianapolis Author Dr. Maria Bucur and her book The Century of Women
About this event
Enjoy hearing Indianapolis author Dr. Maria Bucur discuss her book, The Century of Women: How Women have Transformed the World Since 1900. Get the chance to meet the author and have your book signed.
Light appetizers will be served and a cash bar is available for drinks. Propylaeum members get 1 free drink ticket.
About the Book
This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women’s entry into politics, wage employment, education, and the production of culture. Beginning with suffrage and moving to participation in international movements—such as anti-war, labor, and environmental rights activism—Maria Bucur explores how women have transformed the operation of states and international institutions. Examining the continuing economic gender gap around the world, Bucur highlights ways women have been both beneficiaries of new economic opportunities and participants in developing new forms of inequality. Considering the remarkable achievements of women in the areas of knowledge making and cultural production, the author shifts her gaze toward the future and what these changes mean in terms of gender norms and evolving kinship relations. She thus presents a new perspective on contemporary world history, centered on how women have become both the subjects and objects of seismic shifts in the political, social, and economic structures of societies across the globe.
Price $41.00
About the Author
Dr. Maria Bucur is a John W. Hill Professor of History at the Indiana University Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences. She has taught courses on the idea of Europe, film and history, memory and war, gender in Modern Europe, comparative feminisms, as well as communism in Europe. Her book, The Century of Women: How Women Transformed the World Since 1900 (2018), aims to challenge the broad syntheses of this century from a feminist humanist perspective.
