Feminist film critic to speak Wednesday

Molly Haskell

Noted film critic and author Molly Haskell will present a guest lecture Wednesday, May 2 at 6 p.m. in Arts 215, sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Sadock Women in the Arts Grant as part of Union’s feminist film series.

Haskell has written for The Village Voice, New York Magazine, Vogue, The New York Times, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and other publications. She is the author of three books, including the influential "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies" (1974; revised and reissued in 1987); a memoir, "Love and Other Infectious Diseases" (1990); and a collection of essays and interviews, "Holding My Own in No Man’s Land: Women and Men and Films and Feminists" (1997).

She teaches in the graduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College.