Women’s History Month Lecture: “A Liberal, Modern Movement towards Greater Sexual Freedom: Rethinking Sexuality in the 1950s US”

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Departments of History and American Studies and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies present Dr. Joanne Meyerowitz, OAH Distinguished Lecturer:

“A Liberal, Modern Movement towards Greater Sexual Freedom: Rethinking Sexuality in the 1950s US”

Dr. Meyerowitz is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, and the author of Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 and How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.

Tuesday March 12 / Combs 139 /7:30pm

This speaker is cosponsored by CARC

For more information contact

Dr. Allyson M. Poska, program chair, Women’s and Gender Studies aposka@umw.edu

 

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