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In this Nathalie Esteban Collin Memorial Lecture, Joanne Meyerowitz (Yale University) looks at late 20th-century campaigns to empower impoverished women overseas. At the very moment that conservatives vilified poor women in the U.S. as welfare cheats, anti-poverty advocates positioned poor women overseas as selfless and hardworking.
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Joanne Meyerowitz is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. A past president of the Organization of American Historians and a former editor of the Journal of American History, she is the author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality (2002) and the editor of Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945–1960 (2004) and History and September 11th (2003). Her new book,
A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Princeton University Press, 2021), is a history of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s.
For more information please contact Cecilia Tsu, Department of History at cmtsu@ucdavis.edu
Event sponsored by UC Davis History Department’s Program in Women’s and Gender History and the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.