Love on Halsted - Was Jane Addams A Lesbian?
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Louise W. Knight, author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracywill headline a panel, entitled
“Love on Halsted Street.”
At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7,
at the Center on Halsted,
3656 N. Halsted St., - Free and open to the public.
The panel will address whether Jane Addams can be
considered a “lesbian” and what this would mean to the Chicago LGBT
communities.
Addams was born in Illinois and the first woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Throughout her life she was close to many women. Her closest adult companion, friend and lover was Mary Rozet Smith, who nurtured and supported Addams and her work at Chicago's Hull House.
Members of the panel will include John D’Emilio,
Professor of History and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of
Illinois at Chicago and Beth Kelly, Professor of Women’s & Gender
Studies at DePaul University.Knight is an independent scholar who has taught at the School of the
Art Institute in Chicago and at Northwestern University. Knight’s
latest book was called “a gift, meant to enlighten and improve” by
the New York Times Book Review.
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