Women’s work. The phrase usually conjures up domestic duties or occupations largely associated with women—such as teaching, nursing, or housekeeping. The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection upends those associations. By bringing together materials from across the centuries, Baskin reveals what has been hidden—that Western women have long pursued a startling range of careers and vocations and that through their work they have supported themselves, their families, and the causes they believed in. The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection is now part of Duke’s Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture. This exhibition provides a first glimpse of the diversity and depth of the collection, revealing the lives of women both famous and forgotten and recognizing their accomplishments.
Wed, Feb 27th:
Exhibition Preview at 5pm
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Stone Family Gallery & Trent History of Medicine Room
Reception at 5:30pm
Ahmadieh Family Commons
Rubenstein Library, 2nd Floor
Program 6pm
Gothic Reading Room
Rubenstein Library
West Campus
A Conversation with Lisa Unger Baskin, featuring Naomi Nelson, Associate University Librarian and Director, Rubenstein Library, with introductory remarks by Edward Balleisen, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
Mary Duke Biddle Room, Sperling Family Exhibit Cases, Michael & Karen Stone Family Gallery, & The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
Duke University
411 Chapel Drive
Durham, NC
36.0029782, -78.9383263
Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
