JESSICA WEISS
California State University, Hayward
History Department
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Hayward, CA 94542-3045
jweiss@csuhayward.edu

Brief Biography:
Jessica Weiss is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Hayward where she teaches U.S. and U.S. Women's History. Her book, To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in Spring 2000.

Public Lecture Topics:

Presentations on postwar family life, the sexual revolution, and feminism: California Studies Association, American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Western Association of Women Historians, Carleton Conference on the History of the Family (Ottawa, Canada)

Public Programs:

Slide lecture on History of Women and Art for schools.(NMWA)

Recommendations:

Book: Joanne Meyerowitz, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America
Film: Pleasantville

Jessica Weiss has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 31-Jan-2000.