Department of History, Friends of History, and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Present:
Professor Kathleen Casey
📅 Thursday, Nov 20th
🕑 5 pm
📍 SMSU 327-328 (Broadway Entrance)
Free Event with RSVP
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The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America explores how the seemingly ordinary object of a purse reveals rich, textured stories about gender, sexuality, and race.
Dr. Casey will discuss how purses offered generations of Americans — from immigrant factory workers to civil rights activists and LGBTQ folks — a source of privacy and power.
Books available for sale by Broadway Books with secure credit card payment. No cash purchases.
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