Joyce Follet

Joyce Follet is a historian who studies women’s experience and the history of social movements. She works at the Sophia Smith Women’s History Collection at Smith College and creates public programs for community audiences.
The documentary “Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement” grew out of a two-year project of conducting oral histories with twenty-two older Midwestern leaders of the modern feminist movement. Audiotapes of the complete oral histories are available at the Archives of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison. (03/00)

Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1977
A film by Joyce Follet, 1998, 56 min., Color
"****Proving beyond a doubt that feminism began well before the 1960s, and that its players were not just the white middle class, this inspiring tape ...