Author Barbara Ehrenreich will give the Louis Stern Lecture with a talk
titled “Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment” on
Monday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
Ehrenreich has been an antiwar activist, research scientist, and a
writer. She is author of the 1997 book Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions
of War and numerous other books and essays exploring subjects from the current
political trends to feminism to post-feminism.
Her books have enlightened discussion on subjects from sexual relations
to social policy; her essays have analyzed such hot button topics as “The New
Creationism: Biology Under Attack” in the June 1997 issue of The Nation.