Welcome to the conversation!


Welcome to the conversation!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), made her the most famous American woman of the 19th century and galvanized the abolition movement before the Civil War.

The Stowe Center is a 21st-century museum and program center using Stowe's story to inspire social justice and positive change.

The Salons at Stowe programs are a forum to connect the challenging issues (race, gender and class) that impelled Stowe to write and act with the contemporary face of those same issues. The Salon format is based on a robust level of audience participation, with the explicit goal of promoting civic engagement. Recent topics included: Teaching Acceptance; Is Prison the New Slavery; Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North; Creativity and Change; Race, Gender and Politics Today; How to be an Advocate

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Continuing the conversation: women and beauty

As a follow up to our February 14 Salon Rethinking Beauty: Women, Power & Influence, join CT Girlcott, The Women & Gender Resource Action Center and Connecticut Humanities for a screening of Killing Us Softly 4. The documentary examines how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity, challenging viewers to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

Visit the CT Girlcott website for more information.

CT Girlcott: "Killing Us Softly 4" screening by HBSC1811

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