Published: February 24, 2010
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Randolph-Macon College continues its interdisciplinary series, “Working Girls,” with two lectures that will take place this month.
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
On Tuesday, March 2, author Jennifer Scanlon will talk about her book, Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown (Oxford University Press, USA, 2009) at 7 p.m. in Room 212 (the Topping Room) in Old Chapel, located on R-MC’s historic campus.
Scanlon, professor of women’s studies at Bowdoin College, published the first biography of Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Scanlon argues that Brown is a major figure in the feminist movement because she articulated a powerful place for single women.
Scanlon also will discuss how Helen Gurley Brown contributed to third-wave feminism.
Bad Girls Go Everywhere has received national and international acclaim and will be released this year as a Penguin paperback. It received starred reviews in Library Journal and Booklist and was named a Book of the Times, New York Times; Book of the Week, The Week; Must Read Book, Sunday Times (London); Must Read Book, Harper’s Bazaar; and Best Business Book of 2009, Marketplace.
On Tuesday, March 9, Dr. Sarah Hand Meacham will present “Every Home a Distillery” at 7:30 p.m. in Room 212 (the Topping Room) in Old Chapel, located on R-MC’s historic campus. Alcohol was essential to survival in early America and women were its primary producers.
Meacham, the author of Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), will discuss the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake, and how men supplanted them by using newer and cheaper technologies. Much of her original research is based on advice and recipes published for women in guidebooks such as The Accomplished Lady’s Delight. Meacham is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.
For more information about the “Working Girls” series, contact R-MC History Professor Anne Throckmorton at 752-7269.
For more information on this and other R-MC events, contact Pam Harris Cox at 752-3712, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or Anne Marie Lauranzon at 752-7317, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
