Celebrate Women's History Month

Shaker Library is celebrating Women's History Month with a Special Author Talk. Meet Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, historian, curator, and author of Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, at 7 pm Wednesday, March 16, when she speaks at Shaker Library, 16500 Van Aken Boulevard.

Her book explores women's uses of fashion as a means of negotiating new freedoms and expressing modern political and gender identities. Using fashion as a lens, the book reveals how questions of beauty and appearance were an important part of feminist struggles and ideology during the twentieth century.

Rabinovitch-Fox is an historian with a PhD from New York University, specializing in 20th Century U.S history, with a particular focus on Women's and Gender History. Since 2016, she has taught at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of History. Her research examines the connections between material culture, politics, and modernity, and the ways in which visual and material culture has shaped and reflected class, gender, and racial identities.

Following her talk, books will be available for sale and signing. Register for her talk here.