Past, Present, Future of Women in Politics

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NEW ROCHELLE, NY (02/07/2012)(readMedia)-- In honor of Women's History Month, The College of New Rochelle will present the 2012 Elvira M. Dowell '36 Lecture "Clinton to Palin to Bachmann: the Past, Present and Future of Women in Politics." The lecture will be given by Rebecca Traister, senior editor for Salon.com and author of Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women, on March 1, 2012 at 7 p.m. in Mooney Center's Romita Auditorium on the College's Main Campus.

Salon.com senior editor Rebecca Traister's book Big Girls Don't Cry is a passionate, visionary and very personal account of the cultural ferment surrounding the election of 2008. Selected as a Notable Book of 2010 by the New York Times, Nation magazine called her book, a "riveting account of the 2008 election." The Nation review went on to say that "Rebecca Traister negotiates the shoals of race and gender with exceptional grace and skill and establishes herself as one of the major younger journalists working today."

Traister's lecture at CNR will focus on the 2008 campaign, earlier campaigns by women for president and the current election. This event is free and open to the public and a reception and book signing will follow the lecture.

The Dowell Lecture series, sponsored by the Women's Studies Department, School of Arts & Sciences, and presented annually by CNR, was endowed by Dr. George B. Dowell in memory of his sister, Elvira M. Dowell, a 1936 graduate of the School of Arts & Sciences at the College.

For more information, please call (914) 654-5275. For directions to the College, go to www.cnr.edu.