Karen Offen Book Launch

Karen Offen Book Launch
Date
Tuesday May 8th 2018, 4:30 PM
Location
Cecil H. Green Library, Bender Room
 
Women’s place in French society has been a subject of controversy for some six centuries. In these two groundbreaking works, The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 (Cambridge, 2017) and Debating the Woman Question in The French Third Republic, 1870-1920 (Cambridge, 2018)Stanford scholar Karen Offen explores and analyzes the public controversies over the relations between women and men, women’s “influence,” and how these debates and highly gendered notions about “the family” and “the state,” were embedded in and slowly reformulated over time in the Francophone world.
 
Karen Offen (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a historian and independent scholar, affiliated with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford since 1977.  She publishes on the history of modern Europe, especially France and its global influence, on the building of transnational feminist networks, notably the first of those networks, the International Council of Women, on the historiography of women’s & gender history, and on the sexual politics of knowledge.  She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.