Linda Gordon, the Florence Kelley Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will deliver the Flemmie Kittrell lecture on "The Construction of a Crime: A Century of Challenging Violence Against Women" on Tuesday, Oct. 21 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell University campus.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Gordon, author of the award-winning books Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston 1880-1960 and Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the Origins of Welfare, has written widely on family violence, teenage pregnancies, family issues, welfare and feminist theory. Her works have received the Antonovych Prize, the American History Association's Joan Kelly Prize, Berkshire Prize and Gustavus Myers Award.

The Flemmie Kittrell Lecture is in honor of the first African-American in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in home economics, which was bestowed by Cornell in 1936.