Student Leadership

A collaboration between Bowdoin Women’s Association, the Afro-American Society (now the Black Student Union), the Gay-Straight Alliance (now the Queer Straight Aliance), the Bowdoin Energy Research Group, and Struggle and Change (a social justice group), To the Root was a bimonthly student publication from 1980 to 1995. In this March 1980 edition, the “issue of the issue” is feminism, featuring articles on the Women’s Resource Center, a liberal arts education, and the power of feminism, both in the context of Bowdoin and society at large. The graphics further illustrate pressing issues: the drawing of a woman holding the world while a man sits in a chair and says “smile, dear!” encourages us to consider women’s invisible labor and the expectation that women must present themselves as obedient and happy despite shouldering immense responsibility.

“The Feminist Issue,” To the Root, March 10, 1980