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Montana State University Billings associate professor of history Emily Arendt, recipient of the 2022 MTHS James H. Bradley Fellowship, chronicles Montana’s involvement in the 1977 International Women’s Year conference. Inspired by the United Nations International Women’s Year (IWY) conference in 1975, the federally funded National Women’s Conference brought nearly 20,000 Americans from every state and territory together in Houston, Texas, to discuss women’s issues. Arendt’s presentation investigates the Montana coordinating committee’s planning efforts; the role of conservative grassroots organizers and their protests at the state coordinating meeting in Helena; and the ultimate participation of Montana’s fourteen delegates in the national conference, including how news of their participation was reported and received in Montana.
Emily Arendt earned her PhD in history from The Ohio State University in 2014 and her undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from the University of Wyoming.
Montana State University Billings associate professor of history Emily Arendt, recipient of the 2022 MTHS James H. Bradley Fellowship, chronicles Montana’s involvement in the 1977 International Women’s Year conference. Inspired by the United Nations International Women’s Year (IWY) conference in 1975, the federally funded National Women’s Conference brought nearly 20,000 Americans from every state and territory together in Houston, Texas, to discuss women’s issues. Arendt’s presentation investigates the Montana coordinating committee’s planning efforts; the role of conservative grassroots organizers and their protests at the state coordinating meeting in Helena; and the ultimate participation of Montana’s fourteen delegates in the national conference, including how news of their participation was reported and received in Montana.
Emily Arendt earned her PhD in history from The Ohio State University in 2014 and her undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from the University of Wyoming.
