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Object Description
Interview no. | U-0526 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
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 | May 11 2011 |
Interviewee | Kurth, Suzanne B. (Suzanne Beth) |
Interviewee occupation |
Academics Professors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Fink, Joey Ann. |
Abstract | Suzanne Kurth is a professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Dr. Kurth was interviewed about her experiences as a professor and feminist at the University since the 1970s. Topics discussed in this interview include: gendered differences in treatment of faculty members in the 1970s; the women's movement in Knoxville, Tenn. and on campus in the 1970s; the formation of a women's studies program and women's athletics at the university (the Lady Volunteers’ history); reflections on various social groups and women's spaces, such as Mountain Women's Exchange, the Knoxville Women's Center; the Equal Rights Act struggle; her definition of feminism and conceptualization of social movements in America; critique of the “wave” analogy; sexual harassment and the Affirmative Employment Program. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program's project to document the women's movement in the American South. |
Subject Name |
University of Illinois at Chicago. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
Subject Geographic |
Glen Ellyn (Ill.) Chicago (Ill.) Knoxville (Tenn.) |
Citation | Interview with Suzanne Kurth by Joey Fink, May 11 2011 U-0526, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | U0526_Transcript |