[inaudible discussions] my clock says 12 30. Lets get started. Welcome to the Los Angeles Times book festival. I am a columnist and check me out at la times website. This is the evolution of Feminism Panel so if that is not what you came to hear you are in the wrong place. I want to ask you to silence your cellphone. There is a book signing following the session so you can continue the conversation with our authors afterwards in signing area five. Personal recording of the sessions is not allowed. We are also being broadcast live on cspan. And i was supposed to Say Something about earthquake safety. If you feel an earthquake, please, leave calmly and put your hands over your head. I want you to know at the end of the session, 1015 minutes before the end, we will take questions from the audience. There is a mike setup in an aisle and if you are not mobile raise your hand and we will bring you a mike. Lets start with mia. He she is an author and veteran journalist and wrote for the Washi
Dallas and theres a ranch there and she gets invited to go shooting. So her daughter dresses up in like western gear and apparel has the first kind of teenage romance with a texas guy. And her reception that madame nhu gets from her mother, was very worried about madame nhus visit to the United States so she posts a state department has had an estimate as has madame nhu really shouldnt come you. I have arent all that the in these to throw tomatoes after and if they see her to run her over with the car. This is her mother. She does get tomatoes for better. She also gets Standing Ovations from fordham, from georgetown, from a lot of Catholic Education speed is good to say, she really mapped out the Catholic College and universities, i can or as part of her tour was she presented at that point as her catholicism commune, very important part of her political ideology, if you want to call it that. Was she seen in that light, in 1963 in the United States . I assume to the extent that she was
Out at la times website. This is the evolution of Feminism Panel so if that is not what you came to hear you are in the wrong place. I want to ask you to silence your cellphone. There is a book signing following the session so you can continue the conversation with our authors afterwards in signing area five. Personal recording of the sessions is not allowed. We are also being broadcast live on cspan. And i was supposed to Say Something about earthquake safety. If you feel an earthquake, please, leave calmly and put your hands over your head. I want you to know at the end of the session, 1015 minutes before the end, we will take questions from the audience. There is a mike setup in an aisle and if you are not mobile raise your hand and we will bring you a mike. Lets start with mia. He she is an author and veteran journalist and wrote for the Washington Post for many years. She as interviewed killers, famous people, leaders like castro and as an infant she interviewed president kennedy.
Too controversial. So now theres more education about it, but it is still a hard conflict to streamline and get people talking about. So if this is one way to do that, madame nhu is a very polarizing figure and i i think it needs to be explored, and all. Did your personal feelings for her change over time . I dont know if you started the project is a blackandwhite figure politically and historically. I dont know whether you take became from that kind of a physician, but did she become much more personalizes you in the process of working on about quick when i started i thought this is a woman whos been stereotyped and i was going to rescue her and all this stuff. But she really didnt need to be rescued. She was good in that. She was complicated. I think my initial i am going to do this world a Great Service was quickly changed when i started learning all the facts. But i have the up most respect for her. I mean, she was a strong woman anytime in place that it was not okay to be a strong
Your point he got the federal law and made obscenity tougher. He was against everything the best writers wrote and walt whitman and George Bernard shaw and forced a major abortionist to commit suicide. So when you talk about the antimovement there has been a backlash from males and females. You have to remember, i am sure it is in your book, that the Womens Movement in the 60s starts because the Antiwar Movement was leaving them out and not letting them run anything. One got mad when tom hayden got off the plane and handed me dirty laundry and said clean it. Before we take questions, i want to ask you a current question that may not seem important but it does get at Something Interesting in the culture. Cheryl sanders of facebook launched a campaign with the girl scouts to ban the word bossy for girls. What about ballsy . [laughter] i actually think we should embrace bossy. I think we need to revalue it. I think it is social media stumble. Where does tina fay weigh in on this . Isnt sh