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Kathleen B. Casey

Kathleen B. Casey
Kathleen B. Casey is Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Professor of History at Furman University in South Carolina. She is the author of The Prettiest Girl on Stage is a Man: Race and Gender Benders in American Vaudeville.


Not Just a Fashion Statement: How Purses Are Used as Political Tools

Kathleen B. Casey Explores the Connection Between Black Women’s Purses and the Civil Rights Movement
August 21, 2025  By Kathleen B. Casey
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