Center for New Words Lectures

Cambridge, MA

Kate Clinton: I Told You So
Kate Clinton
May 27, 2009
01:03:47
Comedian Kate Clinton shares from her third book, I Told You So, which spans refreshingly disparate topics: sexual hypocrisy and gay marriage; 9/11 and its aftermath; girls gone wild and boys gone to war; Hillary Clinton and US politics; baptism and waterboarding; intelligent design and bod
Men and Feminism: Seal Studies
Shira Tarrant
May 26, 2009
00:47:43
Shira Tarrant, an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity, addresses the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place.
Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
May 1, 2009
00:59:45
Sarah Waters discusses her new book, The Little Stranger, a haunted house story set in 1940s Britian.
Achy Obejas: Ruins
Achy Obejas
April 30, 2009
01:11:28
Achy Obejas discusses her new book Ruins, which tells the story of Usnavy, a young man who eagerly signed on for all the promises when the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959.
Means of Reproduction: How Women's Freedom Will Determine the World's Future
Michelle Goldberg
April 23, 2009
00:53:12
Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development, as described in her new work, The Means of Reproduction: How Women's Freedom Will Determine the World's Future.
Audio-only
Cathy Wilkerson: My Life as a Weatherman
Cathy Wilkerson
April 16, 2009
01:01:30
Cathy Wilkerson, an activist in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weathermen, was one of two women to survive an explosion in the basement of her family's townhouse, which killed three Weathermen, forcing the group underground.
Mary Frances Berry: And Justice for All
Mary Frances Berry
February 19, 2009
00:56:34
Mary Frances Berry reads from her new book, And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America.
Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa
Pamela Brooks
April 2, 2009
01:15:47
Pamela Brooks shares from her new book Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa.
Zainab Salbi: Between Two Worlds
Zainab Salbi
October 17, 2005
00:56:54
Zainab Salbi reveals the tyrant Saddam Hussein through the eyes of a child, a secretly rebellious teenager, an abused wife, and ultimately a professional woman coming to terms with the horror of her family story. Salbi was 11 when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot.
Danya Ruttenberg: Surprised By God
Danya Ruttenberg
September 4, 2008
01:00:56
Danya Ruttenberg reads from her novel Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion. At thirteen, Ruttenberg (editor of Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism), decided that she was an atheist.
So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood
Jean Kilbourne
November 20, 2008
01:02:09
Jean Kilbourne and Diane Levin discuss their new book, So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids.
Achy Obejas: Ruins
Achy Obejas
April 30, 2009
01:11:28
Achy Obejas discusses her new book Ruins, which tells the story of Usnavy, a young man who eagerly signed on for all the promises when the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959.

The Center for New Words is committed to a simple mission: use the power and creativity of words to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society. To accomplish this mission, our programs support diverse women's engagement with the entire word cycle, from literacy to blogging to literary writing to opinion-making in the media and other domains of influence. Built on the wisdom, commitments, and competencies of 28 years of running New Words Bookstore, CNW is creating spaces and places where women's words matter.
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