PAST CONVERSATION
Power & Sex: America's War on Sexual Rights
How has the conservative agenda come to dominate the national and international conversation on sexual rights? Obama’s victory and the vote against abortion bans in Colorado and South Dakota brought some sexual rights back from the edge of a political precipice, but others remain in the balance. Join scholars, journalists, and policy makers to talk about how we can help the new administration change policies and reframe national and international thinking on sexual rights. Participants include Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics and Professor of History, Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, and Faye Wattleton, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women. Discussant: Rosalind Petchesky, author of Sexuality, Health and Human Rights and Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Moderated by Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
View full calendar of events >> Comments (3)
Ciara McGuire
said:
|
Show/Hide comments|
... I found this extremely inspiring. Having just returned to a country where abortion is still illegal (the Republic of Ireland) I find it is wonderful and further; comforting, that such a level of debate, participation and intelligent discourse operating on these issues exixts somewhere, if not (yet) here. kindest greetings and well-wishes. CMc |
Peter Douglas Zohrab
said:
|
... Women's coming out of the kitchen has dumbed down intellectual and political life. The bias involved in the title and the speakers taking part in this online debate is an example of how bias and irrationality both caused and result from this dumbing-down. What is the moral basis of Feminism? Once upon a time, there was a pretence that it was about equality. This was never defined intelligently, nor was it monitored by pro-men men. This myth that feminism has something to do with equality seems to have been given up, in the drive for total female domination. Women do not have the cortical rationality to impose objectivity on themselves or accept it being imposed on them by men. Women just say they want something, and this acquires the status of a theory at what used to be academic institutions. Hilary Clinton battered Bill Clinton, and now she will be Secretary of State in a Government whose foreign policy pormotes women's rights, without being even mildly intelligent about it. No, you haven't heard that Hilary Clinton battered Bill Clinton, because the Feminist media wouldn't tell you that. You have to go to Glenn Sacks for uncensored information. |
Show/Hide comment form
FAYE WATTLETON
Faye Wattleton is co-founder and President of the Center for the Advancement of Women (CFAW), an independent, women-focused, national opinion research, education and policy advocacy corporation. full bio >>
KATHA POLLITT
Katha Pollitt is a journalist, essayist and poet. Her "Subject to Debate" column, which The Washington Post called "the best place to go for original thinking on the left," appears every other week in The Nation, a publication to which she has contributed since 1980. full bio >>
DAGMAR HERZOG
Dagmar Herzog is a Professor of History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she focuses on modern European history, the history of sexuality, and the history of the religion.
full bio >>
LYNN PALTROW
Lynn Paltrow is the Executive Director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women. full bio >>
