Here are some programs to watch on booktv this weekend. Live on in depth, historian Michael Korda discusses his many books and takes your calls. Booktv visits colorado springs, colorado, to talk with the citys authors and take in its literary sites. On after words, pulitzer prizewinning historian James Mcpherson recounts the life of confederate president Jefferson Davis as well as books about americas security concerns, the creation of the computer and the internet and military dogs. For more information on this weekends 48hour television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next, a Panel Discussion on feminism in the United States from the 1920s to today featuring the coauthors of the recentlypublished book feminism unfinished. The program, hosted by New York University in new york city, is about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. Im delighted to be here even though moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator.
York university in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will have short tenminute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. And then of course at the end at 6 30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. Let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. Michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues affecting women and lowwage workers in
The program hosted by New York University in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will have short tenminute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. And then of course at the end at 6 30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. Let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. Michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues affecting wom
I had four years off and return to Management Consulting and that was two years after my four years off of having two children. I earned the highest amount of money over the man and im now doing postgraduate studies after being a venture capitalist and im 43. Thats a good textbook case. Thank you for sharing that. The Womens Movement is at least 100 years old now and if you go back to suffragettes and its like the Civil Rights Movement for africanamericans which is even older, 150 years or so. Different movements of the source sort stagger at different times. Im thinking about do you have any comments on gender as it relates to people, cross gender people are people of amorphous gender. Thats a movement that is now maybe 50 years old at the most and it seems that its related to the Womens Movement in the same historical way. Yes i think we are just discovering the extent to which gender roles are more fluid than we once thought they were and discrimination against transgender individua
Porkbarrel politics so these terms we have for the policies passed that benefit one district and ones self bases thinking about pay raises and it symbolizes greed which he does throughout the cartoons but i think that would be a great way for my students to sort of try to sort out what these metaphors that we use for the porkbarrel spending, where these come from and what they look like and how they are depicted. There is also a lot of them that use farmers and both in terms of how farming was changed so what happens when they come in and in wisconsin politics. The way that we decided we are going to add it to a question or the holdings if you will is to look up the body of the work to look at what information it will give us about the past. I always like to talk about the voices in the past. So, kind of cartoon collections. What a diary collection for the vietnam soldier does that help us bring a voice back from the past and if that brings a voice back then it would be something that