Join Debora Spar as she discusses choice, sex, and beauty at the edge of the feminist era, and gives us a preview of her new book, Great Expectations.
In her upcoming book, Debora Spar, the President of Barnard College, examines what was supposed to happen to women as a result of the feminist revolution and what has befallen them instead. Drawing upon an unusual mix of data, theory, popular culture, and personal anecdote, Spar, the author of seven books and a former professor at Harvard Business School, argues that the liberation that generations of women fought for and won has, in many ways, proven as much a burden as a blessing. For while the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1960s undeniably created opportunities for women that their grandmothers could not have imagined, they also, ironically, imposed new burdens upon women and girls and new expectations that now co-exist uneasily with the ones that never went away.
Uris Hall, Room 326
New York, NY 10027
United States