Rosemont College

Faculty Member, History/women's Studies

associate professor

mmoravec@rosemont.edu

About

My current project,  The Politics of Women's Culture,  offers an intellectual history of the concept as it emerged among activists and academics in the 1970s.  Drawing on oral histories, archives, and published sources, The Politics of Women’s Culture offers a new narrative of the women’s movement of the 1970s, one that transcends old divides, while offering a new interpretation of a previously misunderstood group of activists.

blogging the book historyinthecity.blogspot.com

where I also ruminate about digital history/humanities.

@professmoravec


My dissertation (1993-1998) situated art-based ideas of women's culture within the historiography of the women's movement.  In particular, I argued that the distinctions made between radical and so-called cultural feminists were too rigidly drawn.  I published this work in various journals, books and art catalogs.  Many of these pieces are available by clicking on the link for papers to the left.

A secondary strain of my scholarship explores the connections between motherhood and culture.  I've published articles about artists as mothers, maternalist peace activism, and recently edited an anthology about online communities of mothers.

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