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Listen to the lecture
Wendy Kline, Ph.D. presents
“Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves:
birth control and the women’s health movement.”
Thursday September 25th, 2008
On Thursday Sept. 25 the Dittrick will offer the Anton and Rose Zverina Lecture featuring Wendy Kline, Ph.D. Professor Kline will present “Reproducing Our Bodies, Ourselves: birth control and the women’s health movement.” Her lecture focuses upon the impact that the book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, has had on women’s knowledge about and attitudes toward their bodies and birth control. From its first publication as a stapled newsprint booklet in 1970 to its latest Russian re-edition in 2007, Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book about women's health and sexuality, has grown in popularity and influence throughout North America and the world. It is produced by Our Bodies Ourselves, a non-profit organization formerly known as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
Professor Kline’s lecture is being offered in association with the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women as the culminating event of a day-long health fair on the CWRU campus. The lecture is free to the public and will be held in the Zverina Room of the Allen Memorial Medical Library. The lecture begins at 6:00PM and is to be followed by a reception in the Dittrick Museum at 7:00PM.
Professor Kline (Ph.D., UC Davis) teaches in the History Department of the University of Cincinnati and is author of Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001). A version of her Zverina Lecture presentation will appear as “The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women’s Health and Second-Wave Feminism” in Stephanie Gilmore, ed., Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States (forthcoming: University of Illinois Press, Women and American History Series).
The lecture is free and open to the public and RSVP is required to 216-368-3649 or e-mail: jennifer.nieves@case.edu by September 22nd.
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