TONIGHT: Beyond the Natural: Engineering Sexual Diversity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century North America

 

On Wednesday, February 19 at 5:30 pm in Falvey 205 Dr. Greta LaFleur of Yale University will give a talk titled, "Beyond the Natural: Engineering Sexual Diversity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century North America." The event is sponsored by the English Department and Program in Gender and Women's Studies and supported by the Esmonde Family Fund. 

Dr. LaFleur is the author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins, 2018). They are currently finishing up a book of essays on birding, co-written with anthropologist Cal Biruk, for the Duke University Press Practices, as well as their second monograph, How Sex Became Good: The Feminist Movements and Racial Politics that Made Modern Sexuality (under contract, University of Chicago Press).