"Designing Women and Old Fools": Gender in Social Policy in the 1930s

Nov 11, 1993

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Alice Kessler-Harris, Rutgers University | Fall Lecture Series 1993

 

Fall Lecture Series 1993


What Do We Want for Our Daughters?
September 15, 1993
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Emory University)

Gender, Breadwinning, and Consumption in Working-Class Marriages, 1919-1941
September 29, 1993
Susan Porter Benson (University of Connecticut)

The Nuclear Family: Gendered Discourses in the Western Alliance
October 12, 1993
Frank C. Costigliola (University of Rhode Island)

Women Silk Workers Reconstruct Their Lives: An Exercise in Memory and Oral History
October 28, 1993
Thomas Dublin (SUNY at Binghamton)

"Designing Women and Old Fools": Gender in Social Policy in the 1930s
November 11, 1993
Alice Kessler-Harris (Rutgers University)

Contesting the New South:
The Politics and Culture of Wage Household Labor in Atlanta, 1861-1920
November 22, 1993
Tera W. Hunter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Immigrant Women Today: Are They Different?
December 08, 1993
Donna R. Gabaccia (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)