Women, like the yellow wallpaper and it went on to create some of the first texts of women and gender studies movement in universities and now that every publisher publishs some feminist books at least we publish the most cutting edge, issues other publishers are not touching because they dont know to or too controversial so all our books have an urgency to them but also might have kind of new and cutting edge. Host what is your background . How did you get into this . Guest i am a journalist. I was born 45 years ago, a lot of feminists things happen. I have written six books, made two documentarys traveled the country speaking about feminisms all i know it is very mainstream. The word feminism is not the worst people would label but it probably is feminist or their belief system is often very feminist allies dont get hung up on the word, i love the title the feminist press. We were really expansion definition of that but i think my career as the way i practice it demonstrates i write
It slowly began to sink can that there is something. That working in conjunction with this rising popularity of all things southern about the same time is going to make kentucky look appealing and another reason that the balance south was having a resurgence of popularity about this time in the late 1890s early 19 hundreds is because the daughters of confederate veterans are going all over the south and building memorials to the confederates. We got one in lexington. This is what started the entire research for me. I wondered whyi wondered why we can have a guy a horse in front of an old courthouse confederate guy who actually was courtmartialed always waiting for courtmartialed to take place when someone often because he lost control of his men. His own army is going to courtmartialed and. Now he is made into a hero in lexington. He was raised here. He is on this horse and still is downtown. Why could this happen when we were union state . We were not neutral, as they taught generatio
Childhood. One of the dreams is about being hunted down, hiding, being terrified for my life. The other dream is about being a murderer and trying to hide the evidence. And i had them for years as a child. As it turned out, i learned much later that my mom shared one of those dreams, the first dream. She was an immigrant from lithuania. She lived through the war there with her dad and her siblings, and as, you know, many people who have gone through war and have suffered, you know, trauma, she had a dream with her sister, sharing the same dream for years about being hunted down. So somehow i inherited part of this dream life. And i think one of the curious things for me as a writer and just as a daughter is why i have the second part of the dream, the second dream and not the first, and not just the first. Host and when did you, when did you discover why you were having that second dream about being a murderer . Guest well, i discovered it about five years ago when i first learned that
With her dad and siblings. And many people who have gone through war have suffered trauma, she had a dream that her and her sister share this data entry for years to be hunted down and i inherited this dreamliner and i take one of the curious things as a writer is why i have this second part of the trina not just the first. Host y eight did you discover you had the second dream . Guest i discovered it five years ago when i first learned, i come from a blended family my father who died ted years ago was an Eastern European jew and my mother is a lithuanian catholic and five years ago i have a conversation with my mom and i learned that dead grandfather the lithuanian grandfather actually lois Security Police of the gestapo during world war ii. And instantly i felt a very vivid range of emotions to figure out what that meant but certainly with that you wish population to be exterminated. The moment i learned he had this position during the war as a collaborator the second jury began to m
Host let me be clear as the name of the book. Katie keeper is the author. This is book tv on cspan2. Book tv is on instagram, follow us for publishing news, schedule updates, behind the scenes pictures and videos. Instagram. Com book underscore tv. We have the privilege of welcoming historian rita davis today to discuss her book, my grandfathers pass, my jewish family, search for the truth. She will share her journey as a daughter of a lithuanian catholic mother and a russian jewish father. In a mission to unravel the truth about her beloved grandfather from 19411943. She discovered he was the Security Police under the gestapo bow where lithuanian town where a thousand jews were murdered in the fall of 18 her awards include residencies that got on the Fine Arts Work Center and provincetown, as as well as grants from the connecticut state Art Foundation and new York Foundation for the art. Her publication list list includes harvard reviews, massachusetts review, poetry and more. She is