"Feminism as Fans (and non-Fans) Found it: Letters to Gloria Steinem," Invited talk, WAWH luncheon, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, 2012
“A Housewife and a Feminist: Readers Write Ms.,” Western Association of Women Historians, Santa Clara, 2009
Participant, “Sequels to the Sixties,” Radcliff Seminar in Women’s History, Cambridge, MA, 2008
“‘One in the Eye for Betty Friedan and her Feminine Mystique’: Housewives’ Letters to Phyllis McGinley,” Berkshires Conference of Women Historians, 2008
“The Woman who Found Herself: Redbook Readers Write Back, 1972,” Western Association of Women Historians, Vancouver, BC, 2008
“Last of a Dying Breed:” Housewives and Domesticity in the Long Postwar U.S.,” Gender and the Long Postwar, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., 2008
"'An Answer to the Feminine Mystique': The housewife and domesticity in Phyllis McGinley's A Sixpence in Her Shoe,” AHA-PCB, Honolulu, HI, 2007
“’The Woman at Home’ Talks Back: Women Defend the Choice to Stay Home in the 1970s,” Western Association of Women Historians, San Diego, 2007
“’Don’t Knock Motherhood’: Response to Friedan’s “Fraud of Femininity,” Organization of American Historians, Washington, 2006
“The Opt Out Revolution: a Round Table,” Berkshires Conference of Women Historians, Claremont, 2005
“Postwar Femininity, Bay Area Style: Gender and Public Life 1957-1964,” Western Association of Women Historians, Phoenix, 2005
“A Careerist is Also A Woman”: Gender, Domesticity, and Public Life in Oakland, CA 1957-1964,” American Studies Association, Atlanta, 2004
“Red Betty: Communism, Domesticity, and Feminism and the Response to The Feminine Mystique,” Social Science History Association, Baltimore, 2003
