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IREWG DISTINGUISHED FACULTY LECTURE 2008: SUSAN CAHN |
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Susan Cahn, Dept. of History
"Desegregated Desires: Adolescent Girls in a Changing South"
April 9, 2008
4 pm, 250 Baird Hall (Baird Recital Hall), North Campus
Dr. Cahn will speak on the subject of her most recent book, "Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age" (Harvard University Press, 2007).
The book examines African American and white southern teenage girls in
the period of 1910-1960. It explores how adolescent girls' sexuality
became a central issue in southern culture and politics, serving as a
flashpoint --in popular culture and state policy-- for intensely
political conflicts over race, class, and gender relations in the
South. The self-determination of adolescent girls as well as the
perceptions, fears, hopes, and cultural responses of adults formed one
important path of cultural and political negotiations over the larger
issue of white supremacy and patriarchal control, the twin pillars of
Southern society.
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