{"id":1680,"date":"2011-04-25T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T16:21:28","slug":"a-life-in-motion-a-reading-by-florence-howe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/a-life-in-motion-a-reading-by-florence-howe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life in Motion: A reading by Florence Howe, 4\/29 at 3 pm, Pembroke 305"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1681\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2011\/04\/25\/a-life-in-motion-a-reading-by-florence-howe\/a_life_in_motion\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1681\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2011\/04\/A_Life_in_Motion-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>Friday, April 29, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 pm <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest speaker: Florence Howe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school  during the civil rights movement, refused to bow to academic  heavyweights who were opposed to sharing power with women, and founded a  feminist publishing house at a time when books for and about women were  few. Sustained by her relationships with ironic writers like Grace  Paley, Tillie Olsen, and Marilyn French, she traveled the world as an  emissary for women\u2019s empowerment. Howe\u2019s memoir spans her eighty years  of personal struggle and professional triumphs.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Brown University Library, the Pembroke Center for  Teaching and Research on Women, and the Sarah Doyle Women&#8217;s Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, April 29, 2011 3 pm Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street Guest speaker: Florence Howe Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil rights movement, refused to bow to academic heavyweights who were opposed to sharing power with women, and founded a feminist publishing house at a <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/a-life-in-motion-a-reading-by-florence-howe\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A Life in Motion: A reading by Florence Howe, 4\/29 at 3 pm, Pembroke 305<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-hay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}