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The Power of Women's Voices

Moderators: Edie Kirk, Sally Keehn

Details

PURPOSE:

This seminar will explore famous and important speeches women have written and delivered in the last five centuries.

DESCRIPTION:

This seminar will focus on the speeches women from around the world have given on topics including, but not limited to, health care, childcare, wages, politics, hunger, gender issues, and free speech. Examples might include Elizabeth I’s Tilbury Speech to her troops before the Spanish Armada, Malala Yousafzai’s One Girl Among Many United Nations Speech, and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

ROLE OF PARTICIPANTS: Participants will be invited to select a speech through their own research, share the background and context of the speech, and deliver the speech out loud, in full or in segments. Video may be used, but not in place of the participant delivering the speech.

RESOURCES:

There is no required reading. Information is available from libraries and online.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Edie Kirk’s career has included sales, marketing, and management positions in pharmaceutical, health care, and nonprofit organizations. In addition, she has launched Toastmasters International chapters in three locations. Sarah Keehn, a former librarian and young adult novelist, has written about two women of power in history: the herbal healer Mountain Mary and the Native American Queen Esther.