Susan Faludi to give this year's Plummer Lecture

Monday, October 26, 2009 – Ann Claycombe

Susan Faludi, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist whose books explore the relationship between national politics and gender roles, will give the College of Arts and Sciences’ annual Hellen Ingram Plummer Lecture on November 2.

Faludi’s book Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Woman won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1991. Her latest work, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America examines the ways that fear of an external threat affects American perceptions of men and women’s proper roles.

The lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Losing Yourself in the 20th Century, on view in the Welch School of Art and Design Gallery through November 19. The event is co-sponsored by the departments of Art and Design, Communication, and Women's Studies; CENCIA, the Center for Collaborative and International Arts; and the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Plummer lecture is the College of Arts and Sciences’ annual endowed lecture, featuring noted scholars, scientists, artists and performers who have made notable contributions to their fields of achievement and to society at large. The lecture was endowed in 1999 in honor of late Atlanta arts patron Hellen Ingram Plummer.