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Speaker/Author of The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment - BPWCO
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BPW Colorado Virtual
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About this event
Come listen and ask questions of Dr. Rebecca DeWolf, reknown author and historian!
TOPICs will include:
- Book's main contributions to the scholarship on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
- The arduous effort to draft the ERA.
- The conflicting civic ideologies embedded in the struggle over the ERA.
- The political undercurrents of the original ERA conflict.
- The course of the original ERA conflict.
- The original ERA conflict's lessons for today.
25-30 minute Question and Answer Session
By engaging deeply with United States' legal and political history, Gendered Citizenship illuminates the ideological contours of the original struggle over the ERA. Through an examination of almost-forty different archival collections, several court cases, and a multitude of government documents, Gendered Citizenship explores the array of both men and women who participated in the original conflict. In the process, Gendered Citizenship takes the struggle over the ERA in an entirely new direction. Rather than focusing on the familiar theme of why the ERA failed to gain enactment, Gendered Citizenship explores how the debates over the ERA transcended traditional political divides in the early to mid twentieth-century United States and ultimately redefined the concept of citizenship in the United States.
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