Dr. Christina Katopodis- Margaret Fuller's 'Femality' and the Magnolia Tree
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) famously asserted that there is “no essential difference” between men and women. She believed that giving everyone equal opportunity would restore to society what it was so desperately lacking: the equal contributions of all its citizens. In this free virtual talk, Fuller scholar Dr. Christina Katopodis will draw on the image of the magnolia tree in Fuller’s short story, “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” to outline comparisons between the unfurling taxonomies of plants and of gender(s), framing all attempts to categorize and classify as mere moments in a fluid, ever-evolving process of living and growing.
Time: 20:00 BST
@unlvmuseum
