Women's History Month lecture to focus on women, United Nations

Traditional studies of international relations and history focusing on men contribute to the image of the United Nations as an organization of unfulfilled promises and failed peace negotiations, according to Judith P. Zinsser.

For women, however, the United Nations is a positive force, she believes. Zinsser, associate professor of history at Miami (Ohio) University, will give a free lecture at UNT March 28 as part of UNT's observance of Women's History Month. She will discuss how women activists gained recognition of women's rights as distinct from men's through the United Nations Decade for Women.

The lecture, "Naming Rights, Taking Action: Women and the United Nations," begins at 4 p.m. in the University Union Lyceum. A reception will follow in the Kingsbury-Thomason Library, Room 267 of Wooten Hall.

Zinsser's lecture is sponsored by the UNT Department of History and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Zinsser has taught at Miami University since 1993. She previously taught in the humanities department of the United Nations International School in New York City, where she was also an administrator.

She is the author or co-author of several books, including Feminism and History: A Glass Half Full and A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present.

Zinsser was a representative to six United Nations world conferences, traveling most recently to Beijing for the UN's fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. She received a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her current project, a critical biography of the 18th-century French philosopher and mathematician the Marquise du Châtelet. She received her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College, master's degree from Columbia University and doctoral degree from Rutgers University.

BY NANCY KOLSTI nkolsti@unt.edu

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