Posted on Mar 12, 2004

Teresa
Meade, professor
of history and director of Women's Studies, published a review essay, “Labor
and Gender in the Chilean Town
and Country,” in a special issue of the Journal of Women's History, on
“Women's Labors” (Winter 2004). Meade also spoke at Vassar
College on “Relaxing Matters:
Sport, Music and Television in Recent Brazilian History” as a part of the preparation
for a Vassar study-term in Brazil. The
class had read Meade's book, “Civilizing” Rio:
Reform and Resistance in a BrazilianCity, 1888-1930, and
had the author in for an extended discussion, followed by a public lecture. Meade
also spoke recently on “Good Neighbors at Last? Popular Culture in Latin
America and the U.S.” at the University of Maryland-College Park, where she was
the guest of the Center for Historical Studies and the Center for Latin
American Studies.