03/26
2026
Lecture

15 Minutes of Infamy: Ill-behaved Women and the Making of History

5:00 P.M to 6:30 P.M (REFRESHMENTS START AT 4:30 P.M.)
Portland Campus for the Health Sciences (Abplanalp Library Maine Women Writers Collection)
Elizabeth DeWolfe

Join Elizabeth DeWolfe, Ph.D., professor of history at 91直播视频and co-founder of the Gender, Women鈥檚, and Sexuality Studies Program, for a talk exploring the stories of women who history tried to forget.

If 鈥渨ell-behaved women seldom make history,鈥 ill-behaved women certainly dominated the headlines 鈥 branded aspassive, irrational, or depraved, their lives reduced to cautionary tales. Drawing on 30 years of archival research,including her recent book, Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy, DeWolfe explores how women misrepresented in the historical record can be recentered to tell a more inclusive and accurate story of the past.

Contact

Sarah Baker
Maine Women Writers Collection