Gender Politics: Breaking Boundaries

Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival presents a discussion about gender politics and women breaking traditional boundaries.
Montclair State University Professor and Chair of Sociology, Yasemin Besen-Cassino talks to the authors of three recent books about women breaking cultural norms and how their experience reflects on the gender politics of today.
Nancy Princenthal’s 'Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art and Sexual Violence in the 1970s' is a groundbreaking exploration of how women artists of the 1970s combined art and protest to make sexual violence visible, creating a new kind of art in the process. Adrienne Miller’s 'In the Land of Men' is a memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, and becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, while Victoria James’s memoir 'Wine Girl' charts her career as America’s youngest sommelier and addresses repercussions, solutions and inclusion in the hospitality industry after #MeToo.
You can buy a copies of the authors' books from Festival partner Watchung Booksellers here www.watchungbooksellers.com/event/s2gs-mlf-breaking-boundaries-gender-politics.
This talk was first aired on Saturday September 12 2020, as part of Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival. The festival is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers free one-on-one after-school tutoring and enrichment classes to low-income families in Montclair and Essex County, NJ. If you liked this talk and would like to support our programs, please donate here succeed2gether.....