The speaker will be Nora Doyle, PhD., Assistant Professor of History, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
Topic: Materials Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America Date: Monday, December 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the
Kennedy Pharmacy, 323 E. Broughton Street, Savannah, GA
Free to the public but reservations for seating are requested. 912.236- 8097
Dr. Doyle will discuss her newly published book (University of North Carolina Press) on motherhood in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Review: “The only study of its kind to combine social history, literary sources, and visual culture, Maternal Bodies offers a rich and complex discussion of the meaning of motherhood in colonial North America and the antebellum United States”— Kathleen M. Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Additionally: A reception and opportunity to meet the speaker will follow.