Live & Learn Library Lecture - Waterloo Public Library

[Brandi Gillett Woods]

*Female Husbands in the News: Same-Sex Marriage & 18th Century Media *

Stories about women in male disguise who married other women were a 
common feature of eighteenth century media.  Such tales were found in 
chapbooks, newspaper articles, ballads, court documents, plays, and 
novels.  These so-called female husbands precede the modern institution 
of same-sex marriage by hundreds of years, yet the eighteenth-century 
representation of the their lives, and the lives of their wives, 
anticipates the media coverage of gay marriage today.

*Join us* /Tuesday, November 25th/, 2008 /at 7:00 p.m./ in the /James J. 
Brown Auditorium/ at the /Waterloo Public Library/ as Fraser Easton, 
Associate Professor, English Language & Literature, presents stories of 
these women, discusses how they were represented in different media, and 
shows what they offer to an understanding of the modern coverage of gay 
marriage. 

-- 
Brandi Gillett Woods CSEM, MA 

Manager, Arts Advancement Events
Arts Advancement Office
Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo 
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 38242