"Women's Suffrage and Women's Citizenship" lecture as part of Women's History Month Colloquium, March 29, 9am

Dr. Ruth Fairbanks discusses how suffrage changed American women's citizenship but barriers based on race, immigration and motherhood remained. This is the first in a series of 5 Women's History Month events organized by Gender Studies in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies. Monday 29th of March, from 9-9:50. For a long time, American women lacked their own relationship to their government. They had a derivative citizenship through their fathers and husbands. Listen to Dr. Ruth Fairbanks discuss how the suffrage movement began to change that and demand a citizenship of her own for American woman. It's a long and uneven story shaped by assumptions about gender, race, immigration, motherhood and the relationship between a nation and its citizens. Join Zoom Webinar: https://indstate-edu.zoom.us/j/94656292334?pwd=c0pzcnNkQmg0R05JdEswWlVBSlZ2QT09