ABSTRACT This essay examines how the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference (IWY), a historic gathering of women in Houston, Texas—tasked to put forward a series of policy recommendations, many informed by a feminist perspective—undercut its own intersectional impulse by leveraging collective memory of U.S. suffrage activism. I analyze the conference program, a document distributed to every conference attendee, that called up early woman’s movement history and suffrage memory in its language, ephemera, and image to constitute a certain narrative for the 1977 IWY audience. I argue that by linking the IWY conference to a specific narrative of women’s rights and suffrage activism, the planners made the conference more explicitly political and feminist, and imbued the event with historical significance and legitimacy. At the same time, the deployment of suffrage memory ultimately positioned white women as mobile and engaged in social movement while effacing Black women and women of color who had been involved in suffrage activism, thus rendering them immobile, invisible, silent, and locked in the past. I conclude by examining a concurrent counter-narrative, one not included in the program, as a productive, intersectional rupture in suffrage memory at IWY.

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（白）妇女在行动：选举权记忆和 1977 年国际妇女年大会

摘要 本文探讨了 1977 年国际妇女年会议 (IWY)，这是一次在德克萨斯州休斯顿举行的历史性女性聚会——其任务是提出一系列政策建议，其中许多建议来自女权主义观点——如何通过利用集体美国选举权运动的记忆。我分析了会议议程，一份分发给每位与会者的文件，它在语言、短暂和图像方面唤起了早期女性的运动历史和选举记忆，为 1977 年的 IWY 观众构成了某种叙事。我认为，通过将 IWY 会议与妇女权利和选举权运动的具体叙述联系起来，策划者使会议更加明确地政治化和女权主义，并使该活动具有历史意义和合法性。同时，选举权记忆的部署最终将白人妇女定位为流动的并参与社会运动，同时抹杀了参与选举权活动的黑人妇女和有色人种妇女，从而使她们无法移动、隐形、沉默并被锁定在过去。最后，我检查了一个同时发生的反叙事，一个没有包含在程序中的反叙事，作为 IWY 选举记忆的一个富有成效的、交叉的破裂。