The Department of the History of Science will host historian Wendy Kline for its monthly colloquium on Friday, Nov. 2.
Kline, a Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, will deliver a lecture on "Birth in Transition: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth." The talk begins at 3 p.m. in Memorial Library, room 984.
Kline is the author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction and Women's Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago, 2010), and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).
She has recently published articles in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and the Journal of Women's History, and essays in Feminist Coalitions, Major Problems in American Women's History, and Popular Eugenics. She also has a chapter on the history of eugenics in America with Oxford University Press.
She is also an accomplished violinist and a member of two professional orchestras: The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and the Clermont Philharmonic.