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CSUN Art Galleries Highlight Women’s Movements

(NORTHRIDGE, Calif., June 3, 2008) — The Center for Study of Political Graphics will premiere a collection of posters at Cal State Northridge’s Art Galleries exhibiting women’s struggles, leadership and activism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

The show, "Reclaiming the F-Word: Posters on International FeminismS," is scheduled to open Tuesday, June 3, and will exhibit national and international posters that display race and gender focusing on women at the forefront of struggles for human rights and social change.

"This exhibition reveals the many facets of the current Feminist movements—hence the word feminismS in the title," said gallery director Louise Lewis. "Contrary to the common misconception that feminism is a single issue movement, this exhibition reveals on a global basis the activism of women in a vast array of social and political concerns: from poverty and economic sanctions to war and violence, and other major efforts to change and improve the plight not just of women but of all humans."

The posters come from all over the world including North and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. Powerful graphics depict diverse feminist issues from the suffragettes to the activism of the 1970s and today. Topics of childcare, labor, ecology, trafficking and violence are just some of the issues explored in the photographs.

A panel discussion on the exhibition will take place on Saturday, June 7, in conjunction with a reception. The reception is from 2 to 5 p.m., with the discussion beginning at 3 p.m.

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents and circulates domestic international political posters related to historical and contemporary movements for social change.

The gallery is open during the summer Monday through Friday from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Parking is $5 and is available in lot E6. For more information call (818) 677-2156.