October 24, 1997: Volume 41, Number 4

'Family Values' is Pollitt Topic on Monday

Katha Pollitt, feminist author, poet, and columnist for The Nation will give a talk titled "Why I Hate Family Values" on Monday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

Pollitt's "Subject to Debate" column appears every other week in The Nation and has been called by the Washington Post "the best place to go for original thinking on the left." The column is also frequently reprinted in newspapers across the country.

Critics have raved about Pollitt's book, Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, published in 1994. The New York Times Book Review said: "Funny and furious ... Pollitt takes on the most compelling issues of our day concerning the sexes and turns them upside down. Along with her razor-sharp wit and her impatience with sound-bite solutions, what sets Ms. Pollitt apart from other feminist writers is her concern for social justice .... Cunning and complex."

Pollitt is the winner of several writing awards, and her essays and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Harper's, and The New York Times, among others.

The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception, sponsored by the Women's Commission, will be held in Old Chapel immediately following the talk.

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