October 8, 2001

Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: October 8, 2001

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - The women’s and gender studies program at

Middlebury College will host two prominent leaders and

chroniclers of the women’s movement during the month of

October.

On Oct. 15,

Susan Brownmiller will discuss “A History of the Women’s

Liberation Movement.” Brownmiller is the author of “Against

Our Will: Men, Women and Rape,” named one of the most

notable books of the 20th century by The New York Times. Her

most recent book is titled “In Our Time: Memoir of a

Revolution.”

On Oct. 30,

Betty Friedan, one of the world’s leading women’s rights

advocates, will discuss her recently published autobiography

“Life so Far.” Her book, “The Feminine Mystique,” set off

shock waves around the country when it was first published

in 1963. Since then, she has authored several additional

books including, “The Fountain of Age” and “Beyond Gender:

The New Politics of Work and Family.”

Both events

are free and will take place at 4:15 p.m. Brownmiller will

speak in Room 220 of Bicentennial Hall on Bicentennial Way

off College Street (Route 125). Friedan will speak in Dana

Auditorium in Sunderland Language Center on College Street

(Route 125). The events are co-sponsored by the College’s

office of institutional diversity and Feminist Action of

Middlebury. For more information, contact Deborah Grant of

the Middlebury College women’s and gender studies program at

802-443-5937.