Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 5:30 p.m.

Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kate Dossett, University of Leeds
“Qualified Women”: Women, Performance and Political Labor in the New Deal
Comment: Susan Ware, General Editor, American National Biography

This project is focused on how women were able to develop a mode of public presentation that challenged the masculine political culture of the New Deal. It aims to move beyond the “good-or-bad for women?” question, which continues to shape gender scholarship on the New Deal particularly and studies of women in politics more broadly.
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As usual, there will be four programs in this series, two each at the Schlesinger Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society.  The complete schedule is available at http://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender

Each seminar consists of a discussion of a pre-circulated paper provided to our subscribers. (Papers will be available at the event for those who choose not to subscribe.) Afterwards the host institution will provide a light buffet supper. As in the past, we are making the essays available to subscribers as .pdfs through the seminar’s webpage, http://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/women-and-gender. Subscribe to the 2013-2014 series via this page to receive the full series of papers.