Karen will enlighten us on what women’s history is today and why this growing body of revolutionary knowledge threatens and transforms the old-style histories written mostly by men — the history you learned in school. She’ll also present a short video on the” Imagining Ourselves” exhibit from the International Museum of Women (San Francisco; www.imow.org ).

Karen Offen (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a historian and independent scholar affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University in California. She publishes on the history of Modern Europe, especially France and its global influence; Western thought and politics with reference to family, gender, and the relative status of women; historiography; women’s history; the national, regional and global histories of feminism; and comparative history. Karen’s latest book is European Feminisms, 1700 1950: A Political History (Stanford University Press, 2000).

www.womeninworldhistory.com