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Interview no. | U-0488 |
Restrictions | Closed until 2 December 2033. |
Project | U.16. Long Civil Rights Movement: The Women's Movement in the South |
Project description | Interviews, 2010 onward, that focus on women's activism and gender dynamics, which were central to the freedom movement and the backlash against it. Topics include reproductive activism, both anti-abortion and pro-choice; the emergence of second-wave feminism in the mountain South and its links to the civil rights movement; the War on Poverty and challenges to job discrimination inspired by Title VII; and the entry of women into the University of North Carolina. Interviews from Knoxville, Tenn., and surrounding areas focus on faith-based activism in Appalachia and its relation to feminism. |
Date | August 10 2010 |
Interviewee | Kogen, Eileen. |
Interviewee occupation |
Therapists Counselors Directors, NGOs and institutes |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | Eileen Kogen has worked as a counselor and advocate for victims of domestic violence since the 1970s. She currently works as a therapist at the Safe Haven Center (formerly Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Knoxville, Tenn. Eileen Kogen discusses her childhood in Brooklyn, N.Y.; her early experiences in the South; her college education; marriage and divorce; becoming conscious of gender; participating in consciousness-raising groups; early experiences in the battered women’s movement; volunteer work at the Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee; changes in society’s perception of domestic violence; early experiences working for a domestic violence shelter and advocating for battered women; her perception of a contemporary women’s movement; how sexual assault crisis centers have changed since their inception in the 1970s; her definition of feminism. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program’s project to document the women’s movement in the American South. |
Citation | Interview with Eileen Kogen by Jessie Wilkerson, August 8 2010 U-0488, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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