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Presidential Misbehaving Women: Sex Radicals and Nonconformists Who Made U.S. History

AHA Session 1
Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Manchester Ballroom A (Hyatt)
Chair:
Lynn Dumenil, Occidental Coll.
Commentators:
Lynn Dumenil, Occidental Coll. and Jesse F. Battan, California State University, Fullerton
A "Great Red Harlot of Infidelity": How Frances Wright was Converted to Sexual Radicalism (and What Came Afterward)
Gail Bederman, University of Notre Dame
Mary Gove Nichols and Free Love in the 1850s
Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Underneath the Whirls: Rethinking Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sex, Nervous Breakdown, and S. Weir Mitchell
Helen L. Horowitz, Smith College
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