I'm delighted to have the opportunity to share some of the research in my next book project at the OHSU History of Medicine Lecture:
"Venereal Girls”, The Cedars Detention Home, and the Portland Free
Dispensary: Gender, Public Health, and Civil Liberties in the First
World War and its Aftermath
Public lecture: 12:15pm
Refreshments served at noon
Location: OHSU Old Library Auditorium
Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism
Mobilizing Minerva
Women and Transnational Activism
About Me
- Kimberly Jensen
- Kimberly Jensen received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in women’s and U.S. history and teaches history and gender studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism (University of Washington Press, 2012), Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and coeditor, with Erika Kuhlman, of Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters, 2010). She is working on a new book project tentatively titled “Civic Borderlands: Oregon Women’s Claims to Citizenship and Civil Liberties, 1913-1924”