Gail Bederman is associate professor of history and of gender studies at the University of Notre Dame. An award-winning teacher, she specializes in the history of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Her current research centers on the earliest precursors of the English and American reproductive rights movement, from William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and T.R. Malthus through Fanny Wright and Madame Restell. She is author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (1995).

Lecture topics:

• Contraception and its Advocates in the USA, 1831-1965: A Revisionist History
• Contraception and its Advocates in the USA before Margaret Sanger: A Revisionist History
• Revisiting Frances Wright's Nashoba: Slavery, Sex, and Liberty in Tennessee, 1825-27
• Why the History of Sexuality in the USA Should Be Taught at Catholic Colleges and Universities: A Report from the Classroom

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