1. Charlotte Ann
Bunch
An Influential Woman in History

2. Introduction
• My Name is Kayla.
• I am a Criminal Justice
Major and Sociology
Minor.
• I will be done at MSUM
after this summer.
• I love my Puppy. Her
name is 8-Ball.

3. Charlotte Ann Bunch
• Born in 1944
• Inducted in 1996
• 1966 Magna Cum
Laude graduate of
Duke University
• Distinguished
Professor in the
Women’s and Gender
Studies Department at
Rutgers University.

4. What Did Charlotte Do?
• Most known for:
• Advocating international attention to women’s
issues
• Including gender and sexual orientation on the
global human rights agenda
• Her writings
• Being a lesbian activist and lecturer
• Women’s liberation and women’s rights

5. Her Works
• 1970- The New Women: A Motive Anthology
on Women’s Liberation
• 1974- Quest: A Feminist Journal; Class and
Feminism; Women Remembered: Short
Biographies of Women in History
• 1975- Lesbianism and the Women’s Movement
• 1981- Building Feminist Theory: Essays from
Quest

6. Her Works Continued
• 1983- Learning Our Way: Essays in Feminist
Education
• 1984- International Feminism: Networking Against
Female Sexual Slavery
• 1987- Passionate Politics: feminist Theory in Action
• 1994- Demanding Accountability: The Global
Campaign and Vienna Tribunal Women’s Human
Rights

7. Service
• Advisory Committee for the Human Rights
Watch Women’s Rights Division.
• Board of the International Council on Human
Rights Policy.
• Advisory Council for the Ethical Globalization
Initiative.
• Served as consultant to numerous
groups, including several United Nations
groups.

8. Awards and Recognition
• National Women’s Hall of Fame – Oct 1996
• Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights –
Dec 1999
• “Women Who Make a Difference Award” from
the National Council for Research on Women
in 2000
• Women’s Enews honored her as one of the “21
Leaders for the 21st Century” - 2002

9. Random Fact
• Charlotte and my Grandma were born the
same year!

10. References
• http://www.depts.drew.edu/wmst/corecourse
s/wmst111/timeline_bios/CBunch.htm
• http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?acti
on=viewone&id=30
• http://www.queertheory.com/histories/b/bunc
h_charlotte.htm