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CORVALLIS - Elinor Accampo, a historian from the University of Southern California who studies 20th century feminism, reproductive rights and the welfare state, will give a free public lecture at Oregon State University on Monday, April 29.

It begins at 4 p.m. in Memorial Union Room 213.

Accampo's talk, "Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussell and the Politics of Female pain in Third Republic France," will focus on Roussell, an outspoken advocate of birth control in pre-World War I France. The French viewed her as treasonous for that stand, despite her status as a mother.

She has written and edited work on gender and the welfare state in the 20th century. Her lecture will examine the relationship between feminism, motherhood and reproductive rights.

Accampo's lecture is sponsored by the OSU Department of History and the Horning Endowment for the Humanities.