{"id":1335,"date":"1961-03-17T02:05:48","date_gmt":"1961-03-17T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2018-10-10T02:08:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T02:08:18","slug":"lakshmi-n-menon-leader-in-indias-womens-rights-movement-comes-to-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1961\/03\/17\/lakshmi-n-menon-leader-in-indias-womens-rights-movement-comes-to-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakshmi N. Menon, leader in India\u2019s women\u2019s rights movement, comes to Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 17, 1961<\/p>\n<p>Lakshmi N. Menon, leader in India\u2019s women\u2019s rights movement, comes to Smith<\/p>\n<p><i>On Friday, March 17th, Lakshmi N. Menon gave a talk in Sage Hall, focusing on \u201cNon-Western Studies.\u201d Menon was an authority on international relations, and had a long standing relationship with the UN. She served on the 1949 UN Commission on the Status of Women in Beirut, and served in multiple capacities representing India on UN committees focused on \u201cnon-self-governing territories.\u201d Her arrival was announced in the Sophian.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Read the Sophian article <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1961.03.14-Students-Describe-Their-Participation-In-Southern-Sit-In-1_Mrs.-Lakshmi-N.-Menon-1.jpg\"><b><i>here<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 9, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 17, 1961 Lakshmi N. Menon, leader in India\u2019s women\u2019s rights movement, comes to Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-31","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}