LGBTQ+ History Month Lecture by Dr. Leisa Meyer: Looking for Lesbians in All the Wrong Places
Thursday, October 17, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
Thursday, October 17, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
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Honors Event and PLP Discovery Event
This talk examines the sidelining of lesbians historically and currently, and suggests that doing so reinforces a misleading heteronormativity in the study of women that impoverishes and distorts histories of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and class.
Dr. Leisa Meyer is Professor of American Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies at the College of William and Mary. She works in U.S. and American women's history, gender history, twentieth-century cultural history, and the history of sexuality. She is the author of Creating G.I. Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps during World War II (1996). Her current project is a book on the history of sexuality in the United States since World War II tentatively titled, Knowing Sex.
Co-sponsored by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Department of History, the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, and the LGBTQ+ Allies Faculty/Staff Affinity Group.
For information, contact Dr. Laura Puaca at laura.puaca@cnu.edu.
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