Fettuccine Forum (11/1)
Women's Citizenship and Civil Liberties Activism in WWI
Please join us at the November 1, 2018 Fettuccine Forum for Professor Kimberly Jensen’s discussion about women’s roles in the United States during World War I and the consequences for citizenship and civil liberties one hundred years after the conflict.
This presentation will focus on two consequential home front programs: Liberty Loan drives and the food conservation pledge drive. Women’s responses to these patriotic calls varied. Some women enthusiastically participated and embraced them as a way to demonstrate their citizenship through patriotic womanhood. Others resisted and dissented because of their alternative vision of women’s citizenship and civil liberties. Our discussion will examine these responses and their consequences in the watershed era of the First World War one hundred years ago and the implications for the modern day.
Dr. Jensen is a Professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (2008) and Oregon’s Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism (2012) and, with Erika Kuhlman, co-editor of Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective (2010). She participated in public history projects for the 2012 centennial commemorating Oregon women’s suffrage and is engaged in similar preparations for the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment in 2020. She has consulted for and appeared in a number of documentary films, including The Great War (PBS American Experience, 2017). Her current research project is tentatively titled “Civic Borderlands: Oregon Women, Citizenship, Civil Liberties and the Surveillance State, 1913-1925.”
Doors open at 5:30 PM
Presentation begins at 6:00 PM
About the Fettuccine Forum
Boise State University College of Social Science and Public Affairs began the Fettuccine Forum in 1989 as a lunch-time lecture at Noodles, a popular Italian restaurant. Mayor David Bieter’s father, Pat Bieter, was one of the early founders, along with his friend Pug Ostling. In 2003, Mayor Bieter relaunched the Fettuccine Forum with support from the Department of History at Boise State University as a First Thursday event, produced by the Office of the City Historian. In 2008, the newly-formed Department of Arts & History took over the role. The Fettuccine Forum remains a lively and informal gathering, which invites the public to interact with politicians, artists, historians, activists, advocates and professionals in an effort to promote good citizenship and responsible growth through education. Support from the Office of the Mayor, Boise State Public Radio and the Department of History at Boise State University all make the Forum possible.