Burlington County - Mount Laurel - Alice Paul Birthday Bash

Alice Paul Birthday Bash 

Sunday, January 13, 2019
2pm – 4pm
Alice Paul Institute
128 Hooten Rd., Mount Laurel, NJ 08054

This year the Alice Paul Institute is excited to host Dr. Susan Goodier for an inspired talk exploring ideas of sexuality during the suffrage movement: "Sex and Suffrage: What Does Sex Have To Do With the Suffrage Movement?" The presentation takes place on Sunday from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.

This presentation focuses on three aspects of sexuality as it relates to the women's suffrage movement. It looks at fears of gender disruption around the turn of the 20th century; it addresses the increasing sexiness of the "New Woman" suffragist; and finally, it suggests that part of the reason for anti-suffrage hostility stemmed from homophobia, the fact that so many suffrage activists had long-standing live-in relationships with other women.

Dr. Goodier is the coordinator for the Upstate New York Women’s History Organization (UNYWHO). She is also an editor for the New York History journal; last fall she edited a double issue on woman suffrage. The University of Illinois published her first book, No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement, in 2013. Her second book, coauthored with Karen Pastorello, is Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell University Press, 2017). Her current book project is a biography of Louisa M. Jacobs, the daughter of Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She is also working on a book on black women in the New York suffrage movement.

This event is free. Donations gladly accepted. The program will be held at the Alice Paul Institute, 128 Hooten Road, Mount Laurel, NJ. For more information, call 856-231-1885 or visit www.alicepaul.org.