Some Women's History Month Happenings at TSU
Dr. Nancy Bercaw, associate professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi, will be the Samuel Shannon Distinguished Lecturer for Women's History Month on March 26 at 12:40 p.m. in the Women's Building Auditorium. The title of her lecture is "Feminism and Freedom: How Former Slaves Defined Women's Rights." Professor Bercaw's research and teaching focus on race, gender, and alternative constructions of citizenship in the nineteenth-century South. She is the editor of Gender and the Southern Body Politic (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and the author of Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of the Household in the Mississippi Delta, 1861-1875 (University Press of Florida, 2002). Her current project, "Categories: A Cultural History of 'Black Womanhood' in the Age of Emancipation," examines how "black womanhood" challenged long-held assumptions about the nature of freedom and dependency in nineteenth-century America.
At the TSU Performing Arts Center
