The Gender and History Lecture Series Presents
Linda Gordon
University Professor of the Humanities at New York University
speaking on
“A Woman Living with Contradictions: The Life and Photography of Dorothea Lange"
4:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 3 in Konover auditorium, the Dodd Center
Prof. Gordon teaches courses on gender, social movements, imperialism and the 20th-century US in general. She is the author of many prize-winning and highly influential books, including Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth Control in America (1976), Heroes of Their Own Lives: The History and Politics of Family Violence (1988), Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (1994), The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999), Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (2009), and, with Gary Okihiro, Impounded: Dorothea Lange and Japanese Americans in World War II.
The Gender and History Lecture Series is co-sponsored by History Department and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and generously funded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
For more information, contact: Cornelia Dayton at cornelia.dayton@uconn.edu