"American Feminism: What Went Right, What Went Wrong" is the title of a free lecture to be delivered at noon Thursday, May 28, at the University of California, Davis. Ruth Rosen, a professor of history at UC Davis and a contributing columnist to the Los Angeles Times, will give the speech in MU II of the Memorial Union. Rosen's lecture was developed in response to a question from a colleague in Eastern Europe who wanted to know how to avoid the mistakes of the American feminist movement. One of the founders of the Women's Studies program at UC Davis, Rosen is completing a book on the contemporary women's movement, titled "The Second Wave: The Emergence and Transformation of American Feminism, 1945-1980." She also wrote and edited "The Maime Papers" and is author of "The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918." Rosen is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, having written essays on such topics as the peace movement, women's rights, human rights and East-West relations. She received her doctoral degree in history from UC Berkeley and has been a member of the UC Davis history faculty since 1974.