Regina Kunzel Talk
Friday, January 23, 2015
12:30pm to 2pm
Berkeley Law, Boalt Hall
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Regina Kunzel
Professor, Departments of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Princeton University
This talk explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry and psychoanalysis in mid-twentieth-century America and examines the role of psychiatric scrutiny and stigma in the making of modern sexuality. Focusing on the archive of St. Elizabeths Hospital, the federal hospital for the mentally ill in Washington, DC, Kunzel reflects on its meaning and challenges to queer history.