Thursday, March 02, 2023 at 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Higgins Welcome Center, Hope Room
45 Upper College Rd, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
In celebration of Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8), the History and Gender and Women's Departments have invited historian and Associate Professor of journalism at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, Sandra Sánchez-López to URI.
Sánchez’s work presents women’s strategies to challenge the hegemonic press in mid-twentieth-century Colombia. The journalists she studies were committed to shaping justice and opportunity for women in society through their writing as they also fought within the realms of the publishing world to transform and professionalize the practice of journalism. These women challenged traditional views of gender and class, but they also sought to maintain their stature in the press and in the broader public realm. This presentation illustrates that women journalists mocked the mainstream political narratives of the 1940s, waved the flag of civic-minded journalism in the 1950s, and experimented with rare genres in the national press to destabilize the dominant printing culture in the 1960s. Sánchez contends that these strategies were successful, but also came at a cost to women. That is, they defended their right to intervene in public spaces by both challenging and reproducing existing hierarchies and stories of power and worth
Civic Engagement / Service, Diversity / Inclusion, International / Global Affairs
College of Arts and Sciences, Harrington School of Communication and Media, Gender and Women's Studies, History Department, Multicultural Student Services Center
Jessie Frazier
401-874-4092
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