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Interview no. | G-0094 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.2.3. Southern Women: Special Focus: Women's Leadership and Grassroots Activism |
Project description | Interviews, 1993-1998, concentrating on the experiences of women leaders and attempting to redefine leadership to encompass women's efforts in grassroots movements, especially in environmental movements, community development, and self-help organizations. Many interviews were done by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students; five were conducted by Holloway Sparks with three North Carolina lesbian activists for a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dissertation on the role of political courage in enabling activism and dissent; and there is also one interview by Pam Grundy with North Carolina State University women's basketball coach Kay Yow. |
Date | 20 November 1994 |
Interviewee | Binzer, Lenore. |
Interviewee occupation | Business owners |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Binzer, Donna. |
Abstract | Mrs. Lenore Binzer is the owner of the antique shop Lenore and Daughters, located in Alexandria, Va. Growing up Catholic in the 1940s and 1950s, she felt that she was programmed to be a housewife and mother and has spent most of her life trying to break free, somewhat, from that mold. She realized early on that getting an education was the way to improve her life situation and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology. After graduation, she married her husband in 1956, who became a career military man. Binzer states that she never felt “pushed down” in her marriage and that a military life was a good life because it provided her family with wonderful travel and financial opportunities. After her children were older, Mrs. Binzer went back to school to complete her Masters of Human Resource Management degree. While she’s proud of the degree, she says that she faced discrimination in the work place because of her gender and saw entrepreneurship as the next big step, opening her store in 1980. The latter part of the interview is spent getting Binzer’s opinions on various feminist texts and her definitions of feminism. |
Subject Topical |
Antique dealers--Virginia--History--20th century. Families--Virginia--Social life and customs. Feminists--Virginia. Women in the Catholic Church--United States. Women--Virginia. Women-owned business enterprises--Southern States. |
Subject Name | Binzer, Lenore. |
Citation | Interview with Lenore Binzer by Donna Binzer, 20 November 1994 G-0094, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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