Witherspoon Institute Family Seminar 2008
Topic: Gender, the Family, and the Social Sciences

June 11 - 14, 2008

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
The Witherspoon Institute
email: Duncan Sahner

Schedule

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11

Dinner Address: “Taking Sex and Gender Seriously”
        • Steven Rhoads, University of Virginia [Dinner at 6, talk at ~7:15]

THURSDAY, JUNE 12

Morning Seminar: “Gendered Parenting and the Well-being of Children”
        • Rob Palkovitz, University of Delaware [9 am – 12 pm]

Afternoon Seminar: “Gender and Parenthood: Practices and Beliefs”
        • W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia [1 – 4 pm]

Dinner Address: “The Happiest Wives and Mothers”
        • W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia [Dinner at 6, talk at ~7:15]

FRIDAY, JUNE 13

Morning Seminar: “Did a Gender Revolution Come with the Sexual Revolution?”
        • Paula England, Stanford University [9 am – 12 pm]

Afternoon Seminar: “Gender, Sex, and Relationships in Fragile Families”
        • Sara McLanahan, Princeton University [1 – 4 pm]

Dinner Address: “The New Girl Order”
        • Kay Hymowitz, Manhattan Institute [Dinner at 6, talk at ~7:15]

SATURDAY, JUNE 14

Morning seminar: “Men, Women, and Sex: A Conservative View”
        • Steven Rhoads, University of Virginia [9 am – 12 pm]

Afternoon seminar: “Ignoring Gender: A Critique of Modern Family Law”
        • Robin F. Wilson, Washington and Lee University [1 – 4 pm]

Students depart after the seminar.

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Posted December 19, 2007