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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Stand Your Ground: a Feminist History of Self-Defense -- webinar with Caroline Light
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SUMMARY:Stand Your Ground: a Feminist History of Self-Defense -- webinar with Caroline Light
DESCRIPTION:<p><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="7bfd8b95-fe79-4e58-9759-c0eb9a9f9be7" data-align="left" alt="Photo of Caroline Light"></drupal-media>Join the first-ever Harvard Alumni Association Virtual Speakers Bureau event to connect with fellow alumnae/i around the world and have the chance to hear from <a href="internal:/people/caroline-light" data-url="http://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/people/caroline-light">Professor Caroline Light</a>, lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Director of Undergraduate Studies, on her recent research and scholarship.</p><p>Professor Light will speak on her recent research and scholarship, which confronts the racial and gendered logics of the recent spike in do-it-yourself (DIY) security citizenship, from stand-your-ground laws and open-carry licenses, to the resurgence of predominantly white, male, armed militias. Dr. Light’s <a style="font-size: initial;" href="internal:/news/new-book-caroline-light-appear-2017">upcoming book on the topic</a>, <em style="font-size: initial;">Stand Your Ground: America’s Love Affair with Deadly Self-Defense</em>, reveals how past appeals to the sanctity of "a [white] man's castle" continue to haunt contemporary notions of security and threat and exposes how the nation's obsession with lethal self-defense rests on centuries of violence against the most vulnerable.   </p><p><strong>Please register to attend the event by Wednesday, May 18th: <a href="https://goo.gl/w50ASL">https://goo.gl/w50ASL</a>. </strong></p>
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