Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum; Communication, Journalism & Media, English, and the History, Language & Global Culture Departments, and Women’s & Gender Studies Program; present:<br/><br/>An evening with award-winning author <b>Nancy A. Nichols</b>, upon the publication of her new book <i>Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car.</i> She will be joined in conversation by <b>Amy Monticello</b>, MFA, associate professor and chair, English Department, Suffolk University.<br/><br/>About <i>Women Behind the Wheel</i><br/><br/>The invention of the automobile a little more than a century ago created a new and movable arena in which women’s struggle for power and autonomy would play out in myriad and often unexpected ways. Cars shaped the way women live, the way women work and date and dress, the way they care for their families, and the way they
there this suggestion out there that there is a ceiling for books that deal with race and racism? but, you know, these books deal with can deal with these topics, but they re very different books. if you just think about the books that are coming this fall. there are ones that look at different periods in the country, there are memoirs, there are parenting books, fiction, short stories, my monticello is a book coming this fall that s a short story collection, children s books, poetry. these books are not at all in the same category. absolutely. what is the aspect, marsha, of the political and social climate that you think is contributing right now to this phenomenon? it s front and center, something we have had to bear witness to or see. or is it more than that? i think what we re seeing right now is the response to a cycle. i think we could have had this conversation in 1970. we could have had these conversations in the early 1990s. so on the one hand, there s call