Women as Candidates, Women as Symbols
Wednesday 27 June, 2012
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0
New America
199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
2008 was the year of the woman. Strong female candidates for the highest and second highest office in the country seemed to normalize the image of powerful women in politics. Even now a record number of women are running for offices across the nation, yet this election cycle has sparked surprising anti-feminist backlash. Discussions of such mundane topics as contraception and motherhood escalated to fiery national debates.
Come meet Michelle Goldberg, Rebecca Traister, Jen Bluestein and Sandra Fluke as they discuss the role that both women candidates and women voters will play in the November election.
FEATURING
MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Senior contributing writer, Newsweek/The Daily Beast
Author, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World
REBECCA TRAISTER
Contributor, New York Times Magazine
Author, Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
JEN BLUESTEIN
Communications Director, EMILY's List
SANDRA FLUKE
Recent graduate, Georgetown University Law Center
Advocate, women's and health issues
Come meet Michelle Goldberg, Rebecca Traister, Jen Bluestein and Sandra Fluke as they discuss the role that both women candidates and women voters will play in the November election.
FEATURING
MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Senior contributing writer, Newsweek/The Daily Beast
Author, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World
REBECCA TRAISTER
Contributor, New York Times Magazine
Author, Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
JEN BLUESTEIN
Communications Director, EMILY's List
SANDRA FLUKE
Recent graduate, Georgetown University Law Center
Advocate, women's and health issues