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Jefferson LECTURE SERIES

Paradoxes of Women's Citizenship: Military Obligation

The Case of the Fired Stenographer

Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History, University of Iowa


About Linda K. Kerber

Linda Kerber is an American historian who focuses on the history of citizenship, gender and authority. She is also interested in feminist theory and U.S. legal history. She co-wrote the book No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998) and was awarded the Littleton-Grizwold Prize for it. In 2006 she served as the president of the American Historical Association.