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Students and faculty can ask history professor about Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe Oct. 25
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day, the latest book by Joshua Sanborn, associate professor of history, will be the subject of discussion during the Lafayette Author Forum 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25 in the Gendebien Room of Skillman Library.
The book, which is co-authored by Annette F. Timm, assistant professor of history at University of Calgary, explores the history of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality in modern Europe and how various gender roles influenced political and economic developments.
Lafayette Author Forums, which are sponsored by the Academic Research Committee, are free and open to the public. They are designed to recognize the publication of significant scholarly achievement and to open an interdisciplinary discussion of the work in question.
Susan Averett, Dana Professor and head of economics and business; Carolynn Van Dyke, March Professor of English and coordinator of Women’s Studies; and Seth Koven, associate professor of history at Rutgers University, will lead the discussion and offer their thoughts about Sanborn’s contribution to the field of gender studies. Sanborn will have an opportunity to respond, and the floor will then be opened for questions and comments from the audience. Copies of the book are available at the College Bookstore.
Future Lafayette Author Forums will be held in November for Helena Silverstein, professor of government and law, on her latest book Girls on the Stand and in March for Ilan Peleg, Charles A. Dana Professor of Social Science, on Democratizing the Hegemonic State: Political Transformation in the Age of Identity.