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02/19/01


SLU LIBRARY FRIENDS CELEBRATE PROF'S BOOK PUBLICATION

CANTON -- The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at 
St. Lawrence University will celebrate the publication of the book Queer 
Family Values: Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Family, by Associate 
Professor of Government and Gender Studies Valerie D. Lehr, with a reception 
on Friday, February 23, at 4 p.m. in Owen D. Young Library.
	Lehr will speak about her book, and refreshments will be served. 
The event is open to the public.
	The book was published in 1999 by Temple University Press in its 
"Queer Politics, Queer Theories" series. In it, Lehr calls into question 
forms of oppression -- gender, racial and economic -- that lead society to 
grant privileges to members of nuclear families.
	Lehr, also associate dean of the first year, has been on the 
St. Lawrence faculty since 1988. She is a graduate of New College of the 
University of South Florida, with a master's degree and Ph.D. from the 
University of Maryland at College Park. Lehr has participated in many campus 
committees and advisory groups and received the Louis and Frances Maslow 
Award in 1996 for her "interest in, and understanding of, the education and 
welfare of the student body as a whole."

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