Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection

Thursday, February 28th, 2019 - Saturday, June 15th, 2019

Women’s work. The phrase usually conjures up domestic duties or occupations largely associated with women—such as teaching, nursing, or housekeeping. The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection upends those associations. By bringing together materials from across the centuries, Baskin reveals what has been hidden—that Western women have long pursued a startling range of careers and vocations and that through their work they have supported themselves, their families, and the causes they believed in. The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection is now part of Duke’s Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture. This exhibition provides a first glimpse of the diversity and depth of the collection, revealing the lives of women both famous and forgotten and recognizing their accomplishments. 

Wed, Feb 27th: 
Exhibition Preview at 5pm 
Mary Duke Biddle Room 
Stone Family Gallery & Trent History of Medicine Room 

Reception at 5:30pm 
Ahmadieh Family Commons 
Rubenstein Library, 2nd Floor 

Program 6pm 
Gothic Reading Room 
Rubenstein Library 
West Campus 

A Conversation with Lisa Unger Baskin, featuring Naomi Nelson, Associate University Librarian and Director, Rubenstein Library, with introductory remarks by Edward Balleisen, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies 

Mary Duke Biddle Room, Sperling Family Exhibit Cases, Michael & Karen Stone Family Gallery, & The Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room 
Duke University 
411 Chapel Drive 

Durham, NC

36.0029782, -78.9383263

Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection