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“Women, Gender, and the Historical Narrative: Still a Challenge”

Saturday, November 7, 12:00-1:45

The 2009 K-16 Collaboration Luncheon speaker, Teresa Murphy, will address how women’s history has affected K-12 curricula in significant ways. Most history classes now make sure that students learn about the accomplishments, and the lives, of women in different historical periods. However, the overall narrative in U.S. history surveys, whether at the K-12 level, or even the college level, has remained largely impervious to the analytical insights of women’s history. This is a particularly surprising development since so much of the work in women’s and gender history during the past couple of decades has directly addressed key elements of the historical narrative, reframing the analysis of key moments in history in significant ways. This talk will look at some of these crucial analytical breakthroughs, discuss their potential impact on the overall narrative of U.S. history, and consider some of the reasons why the larger narrative has not incorporated this new scholarship.

Please note that the K-16 Collaboration Luncheon requires a ticket. Early reservations are advised as tickets are available in limited quantities. No tickets will be sold after 6 p.m., November 1, 2009. Cost of tickets is $25 for ASA members and $15 for ASA K-12 teacher members.

More about Teresa Murphy:
Terry Murphy is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Department at George Washington University. Her work focuses on the relationship between gender and culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in how women manipulated gender conventions in roles of social activism and how ideas about gender evolved and were contested during this time period. Her broad fields of interest for both teaching and research are US Cultural History in the pre-twentieth century and US Women’s History. Her first book, Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England, analyzes the way in which gender relationships were expressed in evangelical revivals, temperance reform, and the labor movement of the antebellum period. Prof. Murphy has just completed Women and the Making of America, co-authored with Mari Jo Buhle and Jane Gerhard. In this survey of women’s history, the authors focus specifically on ways in which gender is part of a larger system of power relations that involve race, class, and imperialism. Currently, Prof. Murphy is completing a book on the emergence of women’s history as a genre during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

By Catherine Michna, Fri, August 21, 2009 - 6:32 pm
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