About Women, Power, and Politics
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Welcome to a world where women rule!A world where the untold stories of women claiming and exercising their power around the world and throughout history come alive in I.M.O.W.'s global online exhibition Women, Power and Politics.
From March 8 to December 31, 2008, Women, Power and Politics is available to audiences worldwide in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. We will focus on one provocative new topic each month and ask the questions no one is asking. Like never before, women and men are focusing on issues of substance concerning women's political participation, speaking to one another about the issues that matter to them, learning the tools to promote powerful women, and acting to create change.
To start your journey through a world of Women, Power and Politics, watch our welcome video by Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, read a letter from the curator, Masum Momaya, or get straight to the issues by exploring the topics in focus.
We want to hear your take on Women, Power and Politics ! We accept film, audio, images and text submissions. Learn how to submit your work for consideration in the exhibition.
Letter from Curator Masum Momaya
Women, Power and Politics is led by Curator Masum Momaya. Ms. Momaya has been a women's rights activist for more than 15 years and holds advanced degrees in public policy, feminist studies, education, and human development and psychology from Stanford and Harvard Universities. Read her personal inspirations and the overall vision behind the Women, Power and Politics exhibition.
I'll never forget an "a-ha!" moment during college that changed my life forever. I was sitting in a class discussing research about rural village women in India, the land of my ancestors. By most measures, people would consider them powerless - poor, illiterate, worthy of pity.
But this was not the conversation of our class. We spoke of the songs they sang, the strength in their voices, and the sharpness of words that conveyed a nuanced understanding of the world around them. In harmony, these women were nothing less than a force to be reckoned with.
This was the 1990s, when scholars instructed students to deconstruct, or take apart, everything. Every effort was "problematic" in some way or another, and people were "dupes" of "the system." Useful as this might have been to understanding why things were the way that it were, it drained my creative force and left me with little hope.
The "ah-ha" came when I thought to myself, "in order for the world to be different, you have to be able to imagine it, to articulate a vision for the world that you do want. It cannot come into being without that. That's what these women in India were doing ¬ imagining and articulating through song the world they wanted to live in.
This is what the International Museum of Women -- and Women, Power and Politics - are about. Together -- the museum, our contributors, and our visitors are creating a place for this imagination to happen. Using words, art, film and song from around the world, from past and present, we are articulating a vision for a better world.
Wars are fought over words, art, and the ways in which we represent the world. And peace, equality and social justice, will, in the end, also be made through representing the world authentically anew.
I invite you to join in this remaking. As Arundhati Roy so eloquently puts it, "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing." It is up to us to give that breath voice.
In the spirit of invitation,
Masum Momaya
Curator of Women, Power and Politics
Meet the Team
Staff Catherine King, Vice President of Exhibitions & Programs Debbie Costello, Interim Editorial Manager Kathryn Robinson, Multimedia Coordinator, Exhibitions Sanja Alajbegovic, Editorial Coordinator, Exhibitions Renee Gasch, Online Promotions Coordinator, Exhibitions | Advisors Purnima Bhatt Ida Blom Gabriela Cano Mounira Maya Charrad Carol Chetkovich Farida Jalazai Temma Kaplan Terry McAullife Tricia Murajda Deborah Puntenney Lyn Reese Holly Taylor Sargeant Jessica Taft |
Contributors Allison Dufty, Editor Wendy Miller, Image Acquisition Specialist Christina Murray, Video Editor | Exhibitions Committee Elizabeth Colton Cindy Eisenberg Karen Offen
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Interns William DeVar Charys Hayden Julia Halprin Jackson Sudeshna Sen Gupta Hasna Ziraoui | Special Thanks 101 Translations Marie Ange Bordas, Artwork Mediatrope, Website Design Michael Yap, Design
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Contact Us
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San Francisco, CA 94119
USA
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Lead Organizational Partners
Global Fund for WomenThe Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking foundation that seeds, strengthens and links women's rights organizations in every part of the world.
The White House Project
The White House Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that aims to advance women's leadership in all communities and sectors-up to the U.S. presidency-by filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women.
Women's Learning Partnership
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) is dedicated to women's leadership and empowerment. WLP's primary objective is to increase the number of women taking on leadership and decision-making roles at family, community, and national levels, practicing a leadership style that is horizontal, democratic, egalitarian, and inclusive.
Organizational Partners
AWID
Global Oneness Project
Just Associates
Women Make Movies
Supporters
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community. It seeks to build a socially and economically just society that values and protects the ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts and culture that enriches communities.
The Foundation owes its existence and inspiration to Nathan Cummings, who rose from impoverished beginnings to become the founder and guiding force of the Sara Lee Corporation. He inherited a spirit of sharing and a sense of community from his immigrant parents and transmitted these values to his children and grandchildren, who now contribute their time and energy to the Foundation.
Charles Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation (Nasdaq: SCHW) is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices and 7.0 million client brokerage accounts, 1.2 million corporate retirement plan participants,262,000 banking accounts, and $1.4 trillion in client assets. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors.
Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, http://www.sipc.org), and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through its Schwab Institutional division. The Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC) provides banking and mortgage services and products. More information is available at www.schwab.com.
Charles Schwab Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization funded by the Charles Schwab Corporation. Its mission is to give back to the community by supporting employee-selected causes and fostering financial literacy through funding, involvement and expertise. More information is available at www.aboutschwab.com/community.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance through almost 6,000 stores, the internet and other distribution channels across North America and internationally.
Wells Fargo is headquartered in San Francisco, but it is decentralized so every local Wells Fargo store is a headquarters for satisfying all our customers' financial needs and helping them succeed financially. Wells Fargo has $575 billion in assets and 159,800 team members across our 80+ businesses. Wells Fargo is the United States' 27th largest employer (SEC 12/07). Wells Fargo ranked fourth in assets and sixth in market value of our stock among our peers as of December 31, 2007.
The Wells Fargo Vision: To satisfy all its customers' financial needs, help them succeed financially, be the premier provider of financial services in every one of our markets, and be known as one of America's great companies.
