Park University’s Women’s History Month Lecture to Discuss “Prescribing the Pill”

NOTE: DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

March 2, 2020 — Park University’s annual Women’s History Month Lecture will feature a discussion on “Prescribing the Pill” on Monday, March 30.

The lecture, to be presented by Beth Bailey, Ph.D., will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Jenkin and Barbara David Theater inside Alumni Hall on the University’s Parkville Campus. Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Bailey, the director of the Center for Military, War and Society Studies, and a Foundation Distinguished Professor within the Department of History at the University of Kansas, will discuss how this method of birth control offered women freedom and the struggle over access to the pill. She will also define what the pill meant in the university town of Lawrence, Kan., as the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s complicated feminist claims.

Her publications include From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in 20th Century America, Sex in the Heartland and America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force. She is currently writing about how the U.S. Army, as an institution, tried to manage what army leaders often called the “problem of race” during the Vietnam era. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the American Council of Learned Societies. She currently serves on the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Subcommittee and on the Board of Trustees for the Society of Military History. She is also a member of the Society of American Historians.