15 Minutes of Infamy: Ill-behaved Women and the Making of History

Join Elizabeth DeWolfe, Ph.D., professor of history at UNE and co-founder of the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Program, for a talk exploring the stories of women who history tried to forget.

If “well-behaved women seldom make history,” ill-behaved women certainly dominated the headlines — branded aspassive, irrational, or depraved, their lives reduced to cautionary tales. Drawing on 30 years of archival research,including her recent book, Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy, DeWolfe explores how women misrepresented in the historical record can be recentered to tell a more inclusive and accurate story of the past.