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 i m now doing postgraduate studies after being a venture capitalist and i m 43. that s a good textbook case. thank you for sharing that. the women s movement is at least 100 years old now and if you go back to suffragettes and it s like the civil rights movement for african-americans which is even older, 150 years or so. different movements of the source sort stagger at different times. i m thinking about do you have any comments on gender as it relates to people, cross gender people are people of amorphous gender. that s a movement that is now maybe 50 years old at the most and it seems that it s related to the women s 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
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] i m very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american women s 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 ten-minute 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 a
this is about an hour and 20 minutes. would evening, ladies and gentlemen. i think we will get started. we are expecting lots more people, that we don t know what the traffic or the subway situation is. i am susan jones, i am also the director of the museum of the city of new york. i am so delighted to welcome you all here for this program. women rebels, margaret sanger and the birth-control movement at 100, tonight, author and journalist katha pollitt will lead a conversation with activists and scholars. a singer viagra for, loretta ross and historian linda gordon. to mark the 100th anniversary of the movement possible origin in 1914, table discuss sanger s legacy and the birth-control movement for activists today. i really do thank c-span for recognizing the importance, and being here to record tonight s program. this is part of our ongoing activist new york series. all of which are sponsored by the puffin foundation. our series is done in conjunction with an exhibition o
/localcontent. you re watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span. up next, a discussion about the 20th century birth control advocate margaret sanger and her legacy. we hear from a panel of historians, activists, and her own grandson. they discuss the impact of race, social class, and politics on the birth-control movement. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i think we will get started. we are expecting lots more people, but we don t know what the traffic or the subway situation is. i am susan henshaw jones, i am also the ronay menschel director of the museum of the city of new york. i am so delighted to welcome you all here for this program. women rebels, margaret sanger and the birth-control movement at 100. tonight, author and journalist katha pollitt will lead a conversation with activists and scholars of the productive rights movement. sanger biographer, ellen chesler, reproductive justice activist loretta
christoff which triggered a conversation. many e wrote anhe wrote an article where he said many people rendered themselves unavailable or not asking questions that were relevant to the public and in some ways fostered a disconnect with the public that is necessary. he didn t say this is true of all intellectuals but he did argue they re a dying breed. others said there s many good, interesting voices out there. the point of today s panel is not so much to have a debate about whether he was right or wrong nor have a debate familiar at almost every oha conversation about the role of the public intellectual or should historians be tried to do this. i think most of us in the panel given what we do start and it s a good thing for those that what to do it. it has a lot of value. what i wanted to do when i put this together was bring together people who have been doing interesting work and ask them about their lives and their career and experience and give a little autobiography abo