2008-2009 Seminars
“Back to the Future: Mapping Women Workers Across the Global South”
Mary Frederickson, Miami University of Ohio
“Clothes Make the Man: Cross-Dressing and the Law in Early Modern Spain”
Jack Norton, University of Illinois at Chicago
Housewives, Citizenship, and Feminism in Postwar America
Hull-House After Jane Addams
“Bowen Country Club: The Intersection of Women’s Space, Nature, and Visions of Childhood”
Barbara Dobschuetz, Independent Scholar
“Against Doctors’ Orders: Lesbian Motherhood and the Battle for Medical Authority in the 1970s”
Catherine Batza, University of Illinois at Chicago
“When Women’s Rights Activists Embraced Darwin: the Evolutionary Feminism of Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
Kimberly Hamlin, Miami University of Ohio
“Indian Women’s Captivity Narratives: An Exercise in Historical Inversion”
Andrea Robertson Cremer, Macalester College
“Vara Majette’s White Blood: Race and Sexual Freedom in the New South”
Leslie Dunlap, Willamette University
“’The Dove Has Claws’: Anticruelty Reform and Masculine Sentimentalism in Gilded Age America”
Susan Pearson, Northwestern University