club women history
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Talk at the Casselberry Woman’s Club
Enjoyed my talk about Florida women’s page & food editors at the Casselberry Woman’s Club today. An enthusiastic crowd and a lovely lunch.
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When Private Talk Goes Public
Press is beginning for the new book, When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about gossip and the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. The book has earned some nice reviews including these below:‘A magnificent and wondrously wide-ranging anthology of articles on 350 years of gossip about politics, power, diplomacy, celebrity, marriage, morals, murder, mayhem, love, and, of course, sex in its multiple variations, When Private Talk Goes Public has something for everyone who cares about, studies, teaches, or reads American history.’ – David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, City University of New York, USA “Brilliantly – and engagingly – these essays…
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Well Behaved Women Making Environmental History
I just learned that my paper “Club Women & Garden Clubs: Well Behaved Women Making Environmental History,” has been accepted for presentation at the Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural and Environmental History in Winter Park, Florida on March 28, 2014. I will speak about the important work that women in Florida did to improve the environment – especially the beaches – in the 1950s and 1960s.
