Women's Studies Seminar
and Public Lecture Series

2006 - 2007

December

Todd Butler, Washington State University
The Narrative of Isabell Billington: Researching Women,
Law, and Murder in Early Modern England
12 December 2006

February

Elizabeth Leonard, Vanguard University, California
Gendered Inequities in the Lives of Battered Women Who Kill
13 February 2007

Marga Altena, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
The Lady and the Indian: Representations of a Mixed Marriage
in Dutch and Canadian News Media (1906-1928)
27 February 2007

March

Christina Quinlan, Dublin City University
Penal Discourses and Mediated Identities
20 March 2007

John Lonergan Governor of Mountjoy Prison
with its progressive women's facility, the Dochas Center, and Sunny Jacobs
Women in Prison: Personal and Professional Experiences
27 March 2007

April

Anna Tijsseling, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam
Frictions in Sex Crimes. The Peculiarities of Guilt-Attribution Practices, The Hague (1911-1960)
24 April 2007