EIHS Lecture: "The Personal Is Political: The Autobiography of Rose Pastor Stokes"
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, University of Michigan
The 1905 intermarriage between immigrant cigar maker Rose Pastor and wealthy, Ivy League, Protestant-American reformer Graham Phelps-Stokes was enabled by both Jewish and American historical contexts during the US Progressive period. Immigration, political and social reform, and shifting notions of race, gender, and class shaped its significance. The complexity of individual biography can help us understand how Pastor (born Rose Harriet Weislander in the Russian Pale) and Phelps-Stokes (Yale graduate, non-practicing physician, president of Phelps-Stokes Corporation, scion of a New York City “Four Hundred” family) embraced the marriage and Progressivism, believing their relationship represented the latter. What conditions of possibility produced and authorized this partnership?
Professor Morantz-Sanchez began researching and teaching women's history in 1971, during the early stages of its development as a field. She also participated in helping to establish new approaches to the social history of medicine and her scholarship has contributed to the growth of each of these fields over the last thirty years. Her emphasis has always been on their interconnection as well as their relevance to mainstream approaches to history. She has also maintained a special interest in history of the family, childhood and adolescence and in cultural history in general. She has taught courses on the graduate and undergraduate level on gender, race, and class and stresses the importance of a multicultural perspective in the teaching and writing of history.
Free and open to the public.
This lecture is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
Professor Morantz-Sanchez began researching and teaching women's history in 1971, during the early stages of its development as a field. She also participated in helping to establish new approaches to the social history of medicine and her scholarship has contributed to the growth of each of these fields over the last thirty years. Her emphasis has always been on their interconnection as well as their relevance to mainstream approaches to history. She has also maintained a special interest in history of the family, childhood and adolescence and in cultural history in general. She has taught courses on the graduate and undergraduate level on gender, race, and class and stresses the importance of a multicultural perspective in the teaching and writing of history.
Free and open to the public.
This lecture is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
| Building: | Tisch Hall |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | History, Women's Studies |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History |
The Thursday Series is the core of the institute's scholarly program, hosting distinguished guests who examine methodological, analytical, and theoretical issues in the field of history.
The Friday Series consists mostly of panel-style workshops highlighting U-M graduate students. On occasion, events may include lectures, seminars, or other programs presented by visiting scholars.
The insitute also hosts other historical programming, including lectures, film screenings, author appearances, and similar events aimed at a broader public audience.
