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Harvard Book Store Event Series Presents Pop Goes the Feminist: A Panel Discussion With Lisa Jervis, Andy Zeisler, Margaret Price, & Lynn Peril

Harvard Book Store is excited to announce that on Tuesday, September 26th, Harvard Book Store and the Center for New Words will present a panel discussion called “Pop Goes the Feminist.”Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, Bitch Magazine founders and editors of Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, join up with Bitch contributor Margaret Price and Lynn Peril, Bust Magazine columnist and author of College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, for a smart, nuanced, cranky, outrageous and clear-eyed exploration of the places where feminism and pop culture intersect, interact, and sometimes collide. Jaclyn Friedman, Program Director for the Center for New Words, will moderate the discussion.

In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture yet thoughtful about the way the pop landscape reflects and impacts women’s lives, Bitch grew to be a popular, full-scale magazine with a readership that stretched worldwide. Today it stands as a touchstone of hip, young feminist thought. Bitchfest offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from the magazine’s first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for the collection. It’s both a recent history of feminist pop-culture critique and an arrow toward feminism’s future.

A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the American college girl. College was a place where women found self-esteem, and yet images in popular culture reflected a lingering distrust of the educated woman. In College Girls, Lynn Peril combines women's history and popular culture­peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s­in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step toward educational equity.

CONTACT:
Charlotte Silver
617.661.1424 ext 2
csilver@harvard.com


Event Information
DATE: Tuesday, September 26th
TIME: 6:30 PM
LOCATION: Harvard Hillel
Beren Hall
52 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge

No tickets are required unless otherwise noted. Tickets for events requiring them are available at Harvard Book Store. Please call (617) 661-1515 for more information.

This event is co-sponsored by Center for New Words.

Author Biography

Lisa Jervis is publisher of Bitch Magazine and a regular lecturer on media and feminism.

Andi Zeisler is Bitch’s editorial/creative director. Both women write regularly for newspapers and magazines nationwide.

Margaret Price is an author, activist, and teacher whose work brings together issues of queerness, disability, and race. Her writing has appeared in Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture; Creative Nonfiction; the Gay and Lesbian Review; the Michigan Quarterly Review;and Ms. Magazine. She teaches at Spelman College in Atlanta and is currently at work on a novel titled Knocking Alex Up.

Lynn Peril is the founder and editor of the online 'zine Mystery Date and the author of Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons. She lives in Oakland, California