Catherine Kudlick
Professor of History, University of California, Davis

"Should Blind Girls Marry?
Reflections on Gender and Disability
in Modern France and America"

Thursday, 29 April 2004
4:00 p.m.
206 Ingraham

Sponsored by The Center for European Studies

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Professor Kudlick's current research focuses on "Attitudes toward Blind People and Blindness in Modern France and America: Essays for a Cross-Cultural Dialogue." This project consists of four distinct yet interrelated essays: how French and Americans talked about Helen Keller, the evolving portrayal of blind people in children's stories, the historical roots of blind self-advocacy, and what factors each culture decides make a blind person functionally literate.