Location: Woolsey Hall, Frank A. Boettger Auditorium

The KU Hall Center for the Humanities, in partnership with the WSU Academic Center for Biomedical and Health Humanities (HealthHum),

Presents

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

Award-winning historian and author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology

To attend the reception from 6-7 p.m., please RSVP at tinyurl.com/DCOatWSU.

Deirdre Cooper Owens, award-winning historian and author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, examines the intersections of medicine, race, and gender in U.S. history. This talk will draw on her scholarship to reveal how the exploitation of enslaved women shaped modern gynecology and continues to influence reproductive health inequities today.