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Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Ph.D.
(Smith College)
How Contraceptives Became Illegal:
The Origins of the Comstock Law
Lecture: 6:00PM
Powell room (2nd floor), Allen Memorial Medical Library
11000 Euclid Avenue
Reception: 7:00PM -- in the Percy Skuy Gallery, of the Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum (3rd floor, Allen Memorial Medical Library)
Please RSVP via phone by September 15th,
216-368-3648 or email: jennifer.nieves@case.edu
The Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum is pleased to announce the 2009 Zverina Lecture by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz of Smith College. Professor Horowitz will speak upon the occasion of the grand re-opening of the Percy Skuy Collection on the History of Contraception in its own dedicated exhibition gallery. Her talk is entitled, “How Contraceptives Became Illegal: The Origins of the Comstock Law.”
Helen Horowitz is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History at Smith College. Her landmark work Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in 19th Century America (2002) explores sexual representations and the campaign to censor them that led to the landmark Comstock Law of 1873 banning obscene materials from the U.S. mails, including contraceptive information and devices.
Please join us for the opening of our new exhibition in the
Skuy Collection Gallery
Virtue, Vice, and Contraband: a History of Contraception in America
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