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All Member Book Group 2019-2020
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LWVAA is
reintroducing a book group - this year focused on women’s issues and
the suffrage movement. We’ve also slipped in a well-recommended
book on the second amendment. Members may choose to participate in
one or all of these informal gatherings at Pub Bricco. Just show
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Event Date:
Monday, October 7 - 7:00pm
Becoming,
Michelle Obama. Crown Publishing, 2018. 448 pages.
In her
memoir, Michelle Obama chronicles the experiences that shaped her
from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an
executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time
spent in the White House. “With unerring honesty and lively wit she
describes her triumphs and disappointments, both public and private,
telling her full story as she has lived it.”
Event Location:
Pub Bricco,
1841 Merriman Rd, Akron, OH 44313
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Event Date:
Monday, December 9 – 7:00pm
The Second
Amendment: A Biography,
Michael Waldman. Simon & Schuster, 2016. 273 pages.
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Second Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new
national government would crush the state militias made up of all
(white) adult men—who were required to own a gun to serve. Waldman
recounts the raucous public debate that has surrounded the amendment
from its inception to the present. As the country spread to the
Western frontier, violence spread too. But through it all, gun
control was abundant.
The present debate picked
up in the 1970s. A newly radicalized NRA entered the campaign to
oppose gun control and elevate the status of an obscure
constitutional provision. In 2008, the US Supreme Court ruled for
the first time that the Constitution protects an individual right to
gun ownership.
Event
Location:
Pub Bricco,
1841 Merriman Rd, Akron, OH 44313
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Event Date:
Monday, February 10 – 7:00pm
American
Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction,
Susan Ware. Oxford University Press, 2015. 100 pages.
The book
emphasizes the diverse experiences of American women as they were
shaped by race, class, religion, geographical location, age and
sexual orientation, and traces the changing historical and cultural
constructions of roles assigned to American women; includes
excellent material on woman suffrage.
Event Location:
Pub Bricco,
1841 Merriman Rd, Akron, OH 44313
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Event Date:
Monday, April 6 – 7:00pm
African
American When in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920,
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. Indiana University Press,1998. 163 pages.
One of the
most comprehensive books on the history of African American women
and suffrage, Terborg-Penn uncovers a less-celebrated history of
women’s activism. The book details how and why black women demanded
voting rights. The book also presents tensions within suffrage and
voting rights movements to underscore the unique position of black
women within the fight for universal suffrage.
Event Location:
Pub Bricco,
1841 Merriman Rd, Akron, OH 44313
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