Professor Jensen will discuss the work of women across the political spectrum as local and statewide candidates and office holders in the decades before and after the achievement of women's suffrage in 1912. She will assess the challenges they faced and their accomplishments and legacy and connect their work with the broad movement for equal citizenship in Oregon.
Location: Montag Den, Willamette University*
Price: Free! Brown-bag lunch; food available for purchase from Goudy Commons and Cat Cavern (near the Montag Den)
* The Montag Den is located on the ground floor of Baxter Hall, near the corner of State and 12th Streets.
Presentation Abstract and Speaker Biography:
As Oregon women pursued a more complete female citizenship through voting rights from 1870-1912 and beyond they also worked to achieve another aspect of full citizenship through office holding. This presentation will address the work of women across the political spectrum as local and statewide candidates and office holders in the decades before and after the achievement of women's suffrage in 1912. It will assess the challenges they faced and their accomplishments and legacy and connect their work with the broad movement for equal citizenship in Oregon.
Kimberly Jensen is a Professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University. She received her Ph.D. in Women's and U.S. History from the University of Iowa in 1992. Her book Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2008 and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards for non-fiction. Her current research project is a biography of Oregon physician, suffragist, and international medical relief director Esther Pohl Lovejoy. She received the Joel Palmer Prize from the Oregon Historical Quarterly for her Fall 2007 article “’Neither Head Nor Tail to the Campaign’: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912” and her article “Revolutions in the Machinery: Oregon Women and Citizenship in Sesquicentennial Perspective,” was published in the Fall 2009 issue of the Quarterly. She is also the editor, with Erika Kuhlman, of Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective (Dordrecht: Republic of Letters Press, 2010). Jensen is a member of the editorial boards of the Oregon Historical Quarterly and the Oregon Encyclopedia Project, serves as a commissioner on the Oregon Heritage Commission, and is a member of the board of Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote 1912-2012.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Power Lunch: Bill Lunch’s Presentation on Politics
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Dr. Lunch moved on to discuss a variety of state and federal races. In the race for one of Oregon’s United States Senator, incumbent Ron Wyden currently leads his challengers, including Republican candidate Jim Huffman, by 15 to 20 points. In the race for one of Washington’s United States Senator, incumbent Patty Murray holds a slight lead over challenger Dino Rossi.
Dr. Lunch then turned his attention to Oregon’s gubernatorial race. The Democrat and Republican candidates (John Kitzhaber and Chris Dudley, respectively) are in a “dead heat,” with Dudley having a “tiny edge” over Kitzhaber. However, Dr. Lunch reported that Dudley faces an additional hurdle in the form of Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Greg Kord. Dr. Lunch predicts that Kord will attract 4-5% of conversatives voters, effectively taking away votes from Dudley. The anticipated division of the conservate vote reflects the fractious nature of the conservative movement in Oregon, according to Dr. Lunch. As for Kitzhaber, the Democratic candidate has not yet consolidated the state’s progressive base.
Dr. Lunch also discussed the race for Oregon's 5th congressional district (covering Lincoln, Marion, Polk, and Tillamook counties, most of Clackamas County, and part of Benton and Multnomah counties). The district is currently represented by Democrat Kurt Schrader. Dr. Lunch stated that Schrader won easily in 2008 because he had no “serious challenger.” But in this election, Schrader is in a close race with challenger Scott Bruun. Dr. Lunch’s presentation included some predictions for state and federal races, as well as scenarios for what might happen if Democrats or Republicans succeed.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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