the Reproductive Rights Movement

Gail Bederman, associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, will be the speaker at the Annual Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture at Indiana University South Bend. The lecture, “The Origins of the Reproductive Rights Movement, 1798-1965: An Ongoing Project,” will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in the Grille (Administration Building cafeteria).

A reception for Bederman will begin at 6 p.m. in the Grille. The event is free and open to the public.

Bederman has taught the history of women, gender and sexuality in the United States for 15 years at Notre Dame. She is the author of “Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917” (University of Chicago Press, 1995).

She is currently working on a multi-volume research project about public political debates over reproduction in U.S. history prior to Roe vs. Wade. One volume of that project , “Sex Politics and Contraception in England and the United States , 1793-1831: A Pre-History of the Reproductive Rights Movement,” is under contract with University of Chicago Press.

Bederman was a senior fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2002-03), and has received a Kaneb Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching (2003) as well as the Charles F. Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching at Notre Dame (2005).

For further information, contact the Women’s Studies program, Rebecca Torstrick, (574) 520-5534, rtorstri@iusb.edu/.