Contact information
Name:
Office of Alumni Relations
Phone:
610.330.5040 or 800-LAFAYETTE (Outside PA)
Email:
alumni@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Kirby 104
Presenter:
Dr. Kathleen Gerson
Price:
Free and open to the public
Dr. Gerson will be lecturing on her most recent book, The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family (Oxford University Press, paperback, 2011, hardback, 2010) examines how new generations have experienced growing up amid changing families and blurring gender boundaries. The Unfinished Revolution shows how irreversible but incomplete change has created a growing clash between new egalitarian ideals and resistant social institutions. Although young women and men hope to fashion flexible, egalitarian gender strategies, they are falling back on less desirable options that foster a new gender divide between “self-reliant” women and “neo-traditional” men. The solution to these 21st century conundrums is to finish the gender revolution by creating more flexible, egalitarian workplaces and child-supportive communities.
A book signing will follow the lecture in the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights lobby.
Kathleen Gerson is Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science at New York University. Read a full biography of Dr. Gerson online.
Sponsored by:
The Council of Lafayette Women and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies