AUTHOR EVENTS

An informative discussion with historian and author, Rebecca DeWolf, Ph.D. Her book, “Gendered Citizenship,” is the first comprehensive study of the original conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment.

Come listen and ask questions of Dr. Rebecca DeWolf, reknown author and historian! TOPICs will include: Book's main contributions to the scholarship on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The arduous effort to draft the ERA. The conflicting civic ideologies embedded in the struggle over the ERA. The political undercurrents of the original ERA conflict. The course of the original ERA conflict. The original ERA conflict's lessons for today. 25-30 minute Question and Answer Session

Celebrating the releases of Rebecca DeWolf’s book Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963, and Tanya Roth’s book Her Cold War: Women in the US Military, 1945-1980. This event included presentations by both authors and a Q&A.

As part of our “Women on Wednesdays” series, American University's Women & Politics Institute hosted a virtual conversation with American University Alumna Dr. Rebecca DeWolf, author of the book, "Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963" and WPI Executive Director Betsy Fischer Martin. The first full-length comprehensive study of the original conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, "Gendered Citizenship", provides readers with rich context to “trace how the arguments against gender equality of nearly a century ago continue to shape our cultural attitudes about the role and duties of women in the domestic sphere today.” Ultimately, Dr. Rebecca DeWolf reveals how the original conflict “became the defining narrative for the changing nature of American citizenship in the era.” Order the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Gendered-Citizenship-Original-Amendment-1920-1963/dp/1496227956?crid=QE8W3PCUISIP&dchild=1&keywords=gendered+citizenship&qid=1619795187&sprefix=gendered+citizen,aps,205&sr=8-2&fbclid=IwAR2AOS7hxfEU8FbE8_VSj2YecPT8VUzINLhhrAnIRc2TErO3PIC7DfCYhWs&linkCode=sl1&tag=wpi02-20&linkId=a34261867711dea9f340501c87c0e4ba&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

By engaging deeply with American legal and political history as well as the increasingly rich material on gender history, Gendered Citizenship illuminates the ideological contours of the original struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) from 1920 to 1963. The first comprehensive, full-length history of that struggle, this book grapples not only with the battle over women’s constitutional status but also with the more than forty-year mission to articulate the boundaries of what it means to be an American citizen. DeWolf explores how this conflict around the ERA ultimately became the defining narrative for the changing nature of American citizenship in the era.