Roberta Salper, Ph.D, one of the pioneers of the field of study that would come to be known as Women’s Studies, will speak at a Needham Lyceum on Sunday, January 25, at 9:15 a.m. at First Parish in Needham, Unitarian Universalist.
Dr. Salper’s book, Domestic Subversive: A Feminist’s Take on the Left, 1960-1976, has been described as “an intimate, riveting memoir about the making of a political radical during the upheaval of the 1960s. It is both a personal journey and an inside look at political movements that changed the world.”
Her journey through the 60s spanned Franco’s Spain, Castro’s Cuba, Puerto Rico and Chile, as well as college campuses during the Vietnam War protests, the emergence of the New Left, and the rise of the women’s movement. In 1970, she became the first full time faculty appointment in Women’s Studies in the first full-fledged Women’s Studies Department in the nation at San Diego State College (now University).
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Dr. Salper is currently a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.
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