Panel Discussions about the Exhibition
This panel explores how the exhibition changes our understanding of women’s roles in American economic history.
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  America's Enterprising Women Intro 3:48
    Dean Drew Gilpin Faust  
  The Enterprising Women Project 11:35
    Professor Virginia G. Drachman  
  Business History 8:21
    Associate Professor Mary Yeager  
  Women and the Industrial Revolution 15:54
    Professor Nancy Koehn  
  Feminism and Women's History 14:23
    Professor Kathy Peiss  
  Audience Question and Answer 9:39
 
Exploring the Exhibition
These video vignettes, with biographical commentary by exhibition curator Edith Mayo, explore the lives of four of the approximately forty businesswomen featured in the Enterprising Women exhibition.
 
  Mary Katherine Goddard 2:28
    Declaration of Independence  
  Lydia E. Pinkham 2:32
    Vegetable Compound  
  Madam C. J. Walker 3:32
    African-America Haircare  
  Olive Ann Beech 2:30
    Beech Aircraft  


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"The exhibition is a response to a neglect of the kinds of questions it addresses in the larger understanding of the history of women in America."
-Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean of Radcliffe Institute

This program is the first of four releases in a series from the Radcliffe conference: Women, Money, and Power.

Additional programs from the conference include:
Entrepreneurial Women
Women Without Money
Women and Economic Development

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