September 29, 1999
LAWRENCE -- Beth Bailey, author of "Sex in the Heartland," which examines the sexual revolution by looking closely at Lawrence, will discuss the book and sign copies from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union at the University of Kansas. The event is free and open to the public.
Bailey, a former KU faculty member and currently professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, is the author of "From the Front Porch to the Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America," and co-author, with David Farber, of "The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii."
"Sex in the Heartland" (Harvard University Press, $27) argues that the sexual revolution of the 1960s was a result of long-term changes in America rather than the excesses of a single decade.