Fridays at Newcomb: Lecture by Emily Skidmore “Breastfeeding as Bodily Autonomy: The Politics of Infant Feeding in the Early 20th Century United States”
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- Emily Skidmore is an Associate Professor and Chair of History at Texas Tech University, where her research and teaching is focused on the histories of gender and sexuality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (NYU, 2017), and is currently working on two major projects: she is one of the co-editors of the six-volume Bloomsbury series A Cultural History of Trans Lives, and she is also working on a monograph titled Latching On: Breastfeeding Advocacy, Race, Class and American Parenthood, 1918-Present. Her work has also appeared in GLQ, Feminist Studies, Bitch magazine, PBS’s recent “American Experience” documentary on Christine Jorgensen, as well as numerous blogs and podcasts. Her work has been supported by the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she has won research fellowships at Cornell and Harvard Universities.
