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Date(s) - November 12, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Friedman Feminist Press Research Grant Presentation: Tues. Nov. 12, 3-4 p.m. | Zoom
Please join us for Colorado State University Libraries’ Friedman Feminist Press Research Grant Presentation, “‘women are creating new rules!’: Separatist Strategies and Collective Living,” by Dr. Sarah Cooper.
In 1974, land in Grant’s Pass, Oregon, was purchased to start WomanShare, the first women’s land in southern Oregon. To understand how land stewards enacted political ideologies in their living practices Dr. Cooper turns to the 1976 publication Country Lesbians, a nonfiction text authored by the five women who founded the collective. She reads Country Lesbians, as part handbook and part memoir to address the question: what did a separatist politic historically and at present afford land stewards?
Dr. Cooper is a Canadian-American academic and currently, a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. Her interdisciplinary research resides at the intersection of archives, rhetoric, gender and queer theory, and sexuality studies. Most recently, her research appears in the Journal of Lesbian Studies. She is also the author of two poetry collections: Permanent Marker (Paper Nautilus, 2020) and 89% (Clemson University Press 2022).