Generations of women fought for your right to vote; now we must defend that vote—and use it! First proposed by the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, women’s demand for the right to vote was controversial—even scandalous in some quarters. Suffragists fought for 72 years to achieve the 19th Amendment in 1920, but astonishingly, women’s voting rights are once again up for debate in some quarters. In this talk, Smith College Professor of American Studies Carrie N. Baker explains the history and current challenges to women’s voting rights and how women are fighting to maintain our right to vote.

Free and open to the public, RSVP requested.

• What: A History of Women's Suffrage with Carrie N. Baker
• When: Thursday, October 22, 2026, 7:00PM
• Where: GCC Dining Commons

Carrie N. Baker, J.D., Ph.D., is a professor in the Program for the

Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Smith College and the

Bauman Professor of American Studies. She has written five

books and dozens of scholarly articles on women’s rights and

feminist activism. Her most recent book is Abortion Pills: US

History and Politics, published open access with Amherst College

Press. Baker is a regular writer and contributing editor

at Ms. magazine, has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire

Gazette and hosts a monthly radio program, Feminist Futures, on

WHMP 101.5 FM in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Co-sponsored by GCC and LWVFC.