Dinner With The Author: Susan Douglas

Thursday, March 11, 2010
6:30 PM

Ann Arbor City Club
1830 Washtenaw Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Cost: $11.50
Reservations Required
contact Ann Arbor City Club

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Susan J. Douglas is the author of Where the Girls Are, The Mommy Myth, and other works of cultural history and criticism. She is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies and chair of the department at the University of Michigan, where she has taught since 1996. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Ms., The Village Voice, and In These Times. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In Enlightened Sexism, Ms. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics, takes readers on a spirited journey through the television programs, popular songs, movies, and news coverage of recent years, telling a story that is nothing less than the cultural biography of a new generation of American women. For women (and men who have mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters), she will lead us in an interesting discussion of gender issues today.