Judith Roth Berkowitz is president of Jarby, Inc., a buying office for women’s fashions, which she opened in 1984. An alumna of Penn, Berkowitz is a founding member and past chair of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, past co-chair of the Council’s Student Life Committee, chair of the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Education, and past co-chair of the Women’s Studies Program. In addition to her service to Penn, Berkowitz chairs the board of the Center for Educational Innovation, a catalytic education group that was actively engaged in the administration and implementation of the Annenberg grant to the New York City Public Schools and in the design of small public schools of choice. She is a past member of the board of the New York Women’s Foundation and a trustee of Dance On, an educational project for the dancers of the New York City Ballet.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

SUSAN FALUDI
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of Backlash

5pm, 200 College Hall

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man and Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Backlash disproved popular myths about the costs of women’s independence and played a formative role in the revival of a national discussion on feminism. Stiffed focuses on the social pressures placed on men, analyzing the contemporary forces that warp men’s lives and attitudes.

Tonight, Faludi will discuss her new book, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America. The book is about "the strange fever dream America fell into after the terrorist attack—with our media and pop culture calling for a return to traditional family life, ‘security mom’ womanhood and John Wayne masculinity—and the roots of this response in America's earliest history and mythology."

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Past Speakers Include:

Susan Bordo (Fall 2006), Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities and Professor of English and Gender & Women's Studies at the Unviersity of Kentucky

"Not Just a 'White Girl's Thing': The Changing Face of Food and Body Image Problems"

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Vandana Shiva, (Fall 2005), Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in New Delhi

"Terra Madre: Creating an Earth and Women Centered Non-Violent Agriculture"

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Martha Nussbaum, (Fall 2004), Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago

"Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Human Capabilities"

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Michael Ondaatje, (Fall 2002), Author

"A Conversation with Michael Ondaatje"

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Dorothy Allison, (Fall 2001), Author

"Conversations with Dorothy Allison"

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Barbara Ehrenreich, (Fall 2000), Author

"Down and Out in Post-Welfare America"

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Angela Davis, (Spring 2000), University of California Presidential Chair, University of California at Santa Cruz

"Race, Gender, and Justice"

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Gerda Lerner, (Spring 1999), the Robinson-Edwards Professor Emerita of Women's History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

"Women's Studies- The Intellectual Revolution of the Twentieth Century"

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Carolyn Heilbrun, (1998), Emerita, Columbia University, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

"The Love of Women: Heilbrun and Adrienne Rich Through Half a Century"

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Anita Hill, Heller School, Brandeis University

"Sexual Harrassment"