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Columnist Gail Collins Speaks on the Amazing Journey of American Women
Celebrated columnist and best-selling author Gail Collins will discuss her new book, When Everything Changed: The Incredible Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present, at Elmhurst College on Thursday, February 11.
Collins, the first woman to serve as editor of the editorial page of The New York Times, will speak at 7:00 p.m. in Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel, (www.elmhurst.edu/campusmap), as part of the Roland Quest Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public; no reservations are needed.
When Everything Changed is Collins’ entertaining, panoramic look at the last 50 tumultuous years in the lives of American women and the women’s movement.
In her review of Collins’ book, The Washington Post’s Liza Mundy writes, “Collins reminds us that there was a time when sex discrimination was clear-cut and indisputable; a time, almost refreshing in its clear moral wrongness, when women applying to medical or law school were seen as taking a spot that should have gone to a man; when divorced women were considered too unstable to have credit cards; when there were Help Wanted ads ‘For Women’ and better-paying ones ‘For Men.’”
Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman appointed editor of the Times’ editorial page. After completing When Everything Changed, she returned to writing a column for the Times. Collins also is the author of Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics, and The Millennium Book.
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