Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies: The Rise of Enlightened Sexism (Susan Douglas)

The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program invites you to the Brownlee Lecture in Feminist Thought and Women's Week keynote address:

"The Rise of Enlightened Sexism"

Prsented by: Susan Douglas, Communication Studies, University of Michigan

Susan J. Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan and a prize-winning author, columnist, and cultural critic, and the.  Her book "Where the Girls Are" was widely praised. In her most recent book, "Enlightened Sexism:  The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done" (Henry Holt, 2010) Douglas continues her analysis of the mixed messages surrounding women, and the struggle she sees in the media between embedded feminism on the one hand and enlightened sexism on the other.  And she takes on the myth that women "have it all" and that full equality for women has been achieved.

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