The Equal Rights Amendment - The Original Conflict hosted by NFBPWC/CO

REGISTER AT BPW/Colorado - The ERA Conflict

Date: February 23, 2022
Time: 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT
Cost: Complimentary tickets courtesy of NFBPWC/Colorado

Guest Speaker: Award-winning historian with a Ph.D. in American history, Rebecca DeWolf, Ph.D., author of Gendered Citizenship, the first full length comprehensive study of the original conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment. 

TOPICs will include:

• Book's main contributions to the scholarship on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
• The arduous effort to draft the ERA. 
• The conflicting civic ideologies embedded in the struggle over the ERA.
  
• The political undercurrents of the original ERA conflict.
• The course of the original ERA conflict. 
• The original ERA conflict's lessons for today.

After the keynote: 25-30 Minute Question and Answer Session 

Rebecca DeWolf is a historian with a Ph.D. in history from American University. She has extensive experience as an educator, researcher, and writer. Her areas of expertise include European history and United States; history and her thematic specialties include gender and women’s history, politics, and United States; constitutional culture. Her research has achieved recognition through several awards and grants, including the Dirksen Center Congressional Research Grant, American University's Vice Provost Doctoral Research Award, and a Clendenen Dissertation Fellowship at American University. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, History News Network, New America Weekly, and Frontiers.

Gendered Citizenship was published by The University of Nebraska Press in the Fall of 2021. [ Order from Amazon here ] Her book explores the contours of women’s civic standing in the post-suffrage era through an examination of the competing civic ideologies embedded in the conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment from 1920 to 1963.