2009-2010 Seminars
“John Adams and Masculine Sexual Identity”
Thomas A. Foster, DePaul University
Commentator: John D’Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Women, Violence, and Race in the Movements against Rape and Abortion
Commentator: Christine Stansell, University of Chicago
Targeting Women in the 1950s
Commentator: Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Loyola University
“An Odd, Emotional Girl: How Psychological Profiling and Gender Shaped Security Risk Assessment”
Elizabeth Collins, Triton College
“The Contested Body of Mollie Fancher: Lay Authority and the Hysteria Diagnosis”
Adrienne Phelps Coco, University of Illinois at Chicago
Commentator: Kim Nielsen, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
“The Long Civil Rights Movement in Chicago: Ann Harrigan and Women’s Catholic Interracialism, 1933-1948”
Karen Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Commentator: Jane Dailey, University of Chicago
New Approaches to Second-Wave Feminism, 1964-1984
“ ‘The ERA is Their Bag, Agriculture is Mine’: Midwestern Agrarian Feminists in the Second Wave, 1964-1984”
Jenny Barker-Devine, Illinois College
“Reading Married Love: History, Heterosexuality, and Marriage in the Inter-war Years”
Lisa Sigel, DePaul University
Commentator: Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska University of Illinois at Chicago
Gender, Professionalism, and Business in the Early Twentieth Century
“The ‘Domestication’ of Business: Service in the Turn-of-the-Century American Banks”
Nancy Marie Robertson, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis