Browse Exhibits (95 total)
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The Life of Memorials: Manifestations of Memory at the Intersection of Public and Private
The Life of Memorials: Manifestations of Memory at the Intersection of Public and Private
Perkins Gallery, Duke University Libraries
July 21-October 16, 2011
Curated by Team KenanLooking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Mapping the City: A Stranger's Guide
Mapping the City: A Stranger's Guide
15 December 2012-18 March 2013
Perkins Gallery
Duke University Library
Durham, NCGallery is open Monday-Sunday Hours vary, please check online: http://library.duke.edu/about/hours/
Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Animated Anatomies: The Human Body in Anatomical Texts from the 16th to 21st Centuries
Animated Anatomies:
The Human Body in Anatomical Texts from the 16th to 21st CenturiesPerkins Gallery (April 6 - July 17, 2011)
History of Medicine Gallery in the Medical Center and Archives Library (April 13 - July 17, 2011)
Duke University, Durham, North CarolinaLooking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Student Mural 2010
Student Mural 2010
"Old Perk" (Perkins Library, 2nd floor)
May 1, 2011 – May 1, 2013
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North CarolinaLooking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Looking In, Looking Out: Writing for the Public Eye
Looking In, Looking Out: Writing For the Public Eye
Perkins Gallery
October 20, 2011-January 9, 2012
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North CarolinaLooking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Botanical Treasures from Duke's Hidden Library
Botanical Treasures from Duke's Hidden Library
April 10, 2013-July 14, 2013
Perkins Gallery
Duke University Library
Durham, NC
Gallery is open Monday-Sunday. Hours vary, please check online:
http://library.duke.edu/about/hours/Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Recording the Anthropocene
Recording the Anthropocene
Perkins Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina
July 16-October 13, 2013Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Cheap Thrills: The Highs and Lows of Paris's Cabaret Culture
Cheap Thrills:
The Highs and Lows of Paris's Cabaret CulturePerkins Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina
February-May 2014Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Queering Duke History
Queering Duke History
Perkins Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina
August 18-December 14, 2014Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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Unnatural Nature
Unnatural Nature
Student Wall
Feburary 2014
Perkins Library
Duke University
Durham, North CarolinaLooking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.
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INCREDIBLE INSECTS: A Celebration of Insect Biology
INCREDIBLE INSECTS
A Celebration of Insect Biology
June 13, 2017 – October 15, 2017
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Duke University Libraries
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Blomquist: The Professor, the Garden, and the Legacy
Blomquist anniversary exhibit Chappell Family Gallery 2018
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Black Students Matter: Taking Over Allen in '69
An online exhibit examining the Allen Building Takeover of 1969 through archival materials.
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The Working Mom
Over the past several decades, women have entered the workforce in fields that were once off limits to them, within everything from business to medicine to culinary arts. With this influx of women has come new discourse of “The Working Mom”, a wonder woman who is successful both at work and at home. There are blogs, books, and almost the entirety of Pinterest dedicated to tips and tricks on how to juggle motherhood and work. Contemporary mothers have added their own career dreams to their existing societal expectations as a wife and mother. However, mothers have not been able to simply waltz into the workplace. Their entry into positions of prestige have been prefaced by countless of generations of women working, oftentimes out of necessity. This exhibit aims to show the journey of laboring mothers leading up to the contemporary; how mothers have had to fight for everything from bodily autonomy to sufficient maternity leave to the ability to control whether they want to be mothers or not. For all the organizing, protesting, and striking, mothers are still heavily discriminated against in the workplace, and the relationship between parenting and career remain a complex and intricate dynamic for women to handle. However, as women have become more and more aware of their capabilities, passed down from countless generations prior, they have carved a space for themselves where they want to belong. Hopefully, they will continue to do so.
-Gia Cummings
Duke University, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Class of 2021
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The World's Oldest Profession: Labor Organizing in Prostitution
Since the second half of the 20th century, the topic of the sex industry has never ceased to profoundly divide the feminist left. Prostitution, often termed the world’s oldest profession, has a nuanced place in both the feminist framework and that of women and labor.¹ The topic is ripe with tensions: tensions between a woman’s autonomy and her gender-based subordination, between the embrace of her own sexuality and the commodification of the female body. Some view it as empowerment that defies outdated Victorian morality, while others see it as enslavement that disproportionately affects the lower class. I was intrigued by the unique position that prostitution occupies in feminist labor history: Its very categorization as work is ambiguous, and its illegal nature adds a further layer of complication. Foucauldian biopower and state surveillance come into play with the monitoring of bodies and day-to-day private life. Did prostitutes have unions? How did they organize? I touch upon discourses in the suffrage era and in Chicago in the early 20th century, before embarking on a journey into COYOTE, the first prostitutes’ rights group in the nation founded in 1973, to discover their goals, missions, organizing and advocacy activities and their vision of the profession.
-Elaine Zhong
Duke University, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Class of 2019
1. The vocabulary "prostitution" is used in this exhibit with the consideration that "sex work" is a more modern term and encompasses a wider range of professions.
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Women and Labor Movements
"Women and Labor Movements" is an exhibit created by undergraduate students who participated in Duke's Story+ program in collaboration with the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture within the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. This project highlights the wealth of materials related to women, labor, and labor organizing within the Bingham Center and the Rubenstein Library. The acquisition of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection in 2015 enhanced the historical context of these collections with a wide range of publications about women in labor movements as well as materials documenting women as workers over time, including a collection of letters and publications by labor activist Emma Goldman and her circle. The Baskin Collection, made up of more than 17,000 items, catalogs the enduring presence of women at work across five centuries. Central themes include early modern printed materials by or about women, suffrage and anti-slavery materials, history of medicine, women artists and makers, and women's literature. This combination of significant material from the Baskin Collection with long-held collections of the Bingham Center and other labor holdings of the Rubenstein Library offers a unique opportunity for scholars to make new connections among the histories and ongoing stories of women’s work in labor movements within and beyond the U.S.
This website offers an overview of Rubenstein Library materials connected to women and labor organizing. It showcases important collections including the records of the International Ladies Garment Workers Unions, the papers of Durham activist Theresa El-Amin, the Southeast Women's Employment Coalition Records, and the Lowell Offering, a newspaper published by and for employees of the Lowell, MA textile mills.
Students in the "Women and Labor Movements" project studied the intersection of feminism and labor organizing today as they examined expressions of these themes across archival collections. Each student explored a theme in depth and built an online exhibit showcasing how it is represented in Rubenstein Library collections: The World's Oldest Profession: Labor Organizing in Prostitution and The Working Mom.
Banner photos: Southeast Women's Employment Coalition Records, Box 4, Folder "Women in the Southern Economy: Who are We?" 1982-1984
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CAPTURING THE MOMENT: Centuries of the Passover Haggadah
February 23, 2017 – June 11, 2017
On display in The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina -
I Sing the Body Electric: Walt Whitman and the Body
Biddle Rare Book Room
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC
July 26-October 28, 2017
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