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Abstract: »On April 13, 2022, Anna Richey presented the fourth annual John W. Chambers II Oral History Graduate Fellowship lecture. Her virtual talk, entitled "Fighting Back: How Anti-Rape Activists Fostered Feminism on Campus," focuses on anti-rape activism at Columbia University, Barnard College and Ohio State University. In the lecture, Richey examines the changing definition of rape and sexual violence over time, the relationship between sexual violence, race, gender and space, and the interaction between anti-rape activists and their institutions of higher education.
More broadly, in her dissertation, Richey is exploring how women students organized to prevent sexual violence on college campuses from 1950 to 1990 and effected university programming involving Title IX and gender equality. Richey's analysis draws from archival interviews, as well as oral history interviews that she conducted of activists. Oral histories play a central role in Richey's research by centering the voices of survivors and activists, as they redefined public discourse on gendered violence. She contends, "Oral histories have been the most instrumental source material for my research." Because university archives often exclude sexual violence from records in order to preserve their legacies, Richey says, "The voices of participants provide information that would otherwise be unattainable." « (Source: Rutgers, the University of New Jersey)

Lectures: Richey, Anna. »Fighting Back: How Anti-Rape Activists Fostered Feminism on Campus.« 55^th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association. 2021. - Bibliographic Entry: Info

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