Season 2: Episode #28: Why were women drawn into the Anti-Vietnam Movement
​With Dr. Jessica Frazier

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Jessica Frazier of the University of Rhode Island about women who were deeply intrenched in the anti-Vietnam movement and perhaps overshadowed by their male contemporaries. Dr. Frazier wrote her first book on this subject. You can find her book here. 

Transcript

Jessica Frazier is an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island in the History and Gender and Women’s Studies Departments. She earned a PhD in history from SUNY Binghamton with a concentration on women’s history in the 20th century. Her current book project, “Creating Transnational Feminist Networks, 1940-2000,” traces the genealogy of transnational feminist praxis in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through collective biography. Her first book, Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era (University of North Carolina Press), was chosen as a 2017 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE magazine and provides a window on the nature of the relationships forged between U.S. women and their Vietnamese counterparts in the 1960s and 1970s.​