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Today, book clubs are all the rage, but in the early twentieth century, social groups called ""women's clubs"" were more popular. These small groups of friends, family and neighbors gathered to discuss topics like history, philosophy, and art. This primer from Caroline French Benton offers plenty of inspiration and practical guidelines

Have you ever wanted to kick off a club of your own, but weren't sure where to start? In The Complete Club Book for Women, author Caroline French Benton offers up tons of suggestions and ideas, ranging from topics and issues to focus on to hints and guidelines for conducting meetings

"On April 18, 1889, a meeting was held for the purpose of organizing a social club for the local businessmen in Saginaw, Michigan. The organization was named the East Saginaw Club, and stock was sold at $100 a share. Bids were then submitted for property on which to build the clubhouse, and a site on Washington Avenue in downtown Saginaw was selected. The three-story building was to be an elegant setting for functions, with beautiful surroundings and walls that displayed wonderful and valuable artwork. In 1919, the original charter expired, the new articles of association were ratified, and a new name was chosen: the Saginaw Club. Today, the Saginaw Club has over 300 members and is known for its many traditions, particularly the club's annual toast to the office of the president of the United States."-- Amazon.com

"Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume--the first full-length study of the subject in fifty years-examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting-places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which societies are set, this volume offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond"--

A lo largo de casi tres décadas, Documentación y Estudios de Mujeres, A.C. (DEMAC) se ha encargado de abrir espacios en los que las mexicanas encuentren su voz y redescubran su identidad a través de un camino atípico: la escritura autobiográfica. Desde su fundación en 1989, DEMAC se ha consolidado como una organización única y visionaria que busca apoyar los esfuerzos de las mujeres por encontrar su propia visión de la existencia en un país dominado por las perspectivas masculinas, de sacar a la luz las realidades marginadas que padecen y, con ello, de emprender una revolución que contribuya a luchar contra la desigualdad de género en México. Este libro hace un recuento de la senda recorrida y expone los próximos proyectos venideros que posicionan a DEMAC como una institución de vanguardia, con miras siempre al futuro