You are invited to attend the last Café Bob of the semester on Thursday, December 7 at 11 a.m. in KAU Tower. Come enjoy a donut and beverage and hear students from History 201 “The Craft of Public History” share their virtual exhibition on nineteenth-century gender roles. In particular, they will explore how the influence of scientific and medical popular thought, combined with existing Christian religious ideas from the 1830s–1890s, contributed to the reinforcement and reformulation of gender roles and sexual freedom. The exhibition uses biographies, pamphlets, medical manuals, and etiquette books—culled from the Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home and Heaven and housed in Special Collections at the College of Wooster Archives—in order to shed light on the progressive and conversely, stagnant, gender expectations.

Hope to see you there!