Today's Message
Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2015Women and Gender Book Club: First Meeting October 2
The Women and Gender Book Club invites you to join us in reading and discussing historian Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Copies of the book will be available to students for $5. To sign up, please contact Lindsey Freeman, assistant professor of sociology; Susan Maguire, associate professor of anthropology; or Ruth Goldman, assistant professor of communication, or attend the first meeting on October 2.
Meetings will be held in Classroom Building A400 on Fridays at 2:00 p.m.: October 2, November 6, November 20, and December 4.
About the book:
Wonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded a vast and wildly passionate following. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike others, she also has a secret history.
In Jill Lepore’s riveting work of historical detection, Wonder Woman’s story provides the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later.
Friday, October 2, 2015
