Diversity Lecture Series: Naomi Wolf

By Nan Schichtel, Information Literacy & Outreach Librarian and
Miriam Thompson, Reference/Access Services Librarian

This week please join GRCC for the next speaker in the Diversity Lecture Series, Naomi Wolf, who will be appearing at the Fountain Street Church on March 14, 2012. Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times best seller The Beauty Myth.

Wolf focuses on gender equality, body image, pervasive inequities in society and politics, and the defense of liberty in America and internationally. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, Wolf argues that breathtaking changes take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended, through civic engagement.

She is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization that teaches leadership to young women, and The American Freedom Campaign, a grass roots democracy movement in the United States whose mission is the defense of the Constitution and the rule of law. She encourages people to take charge of their lives, voice their concerns and enact change. A graduate of Yale and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Wolf was a consultant to Al Gore, during his presidential campaign, on women’s issues and social policy.

Books/Videos by Naomi Wolf available at the library:

• The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women. New York : Perennial, 2002.
• The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Pub., 2007.
• Give me Liberty: a Handbook for American Revolutionaries. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
• Great speeches. Volume 16. [DVD] . Greenwood, IN : Educational Video Group, c2004. This DVD includes Scripps College Commencement by Wolf (23 min.)

Articles by/about Naomi Wolf:

• The Porn Myth: In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.by Naomi Wolf
• How I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street by Naomi Wolf
• Naomi Wolf at New York magazine
• Naomi Wolf at Project Syndicate
• Naomi Wolf at The Guardian

Diversity Lecture Series: Jeannette Walls

By Miriam Thompson
Reference/Access Services Librarian

On October 26th, Jeannette Walls, writer and journalist, will be the second speaker in the 2011-2012 Diversity Lecture Series.

Walls is author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks. In 2000, Walls published the book Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip. In 2009 her first fiction book, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, based on the life of her grandmother Lily Casey Smith, was published.

She has also written for New York magazine (the “Intelligencer” column 1987-1993), Esquire (1993–1998), USA Today, and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, Primetime, and The Colbert Report. She contributed regularly to the gossip column Scoop at MSNBC.com from 1998 until her departure to write full-time in 2007.

Currently, The Glass Castle has sold over 2.5 million copies and has been translated into 22 languages. It has received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association’s Alex Award (2006) and the Books for Better Living Award.

For more information Walls and her books, please see references below. GRCC students and staff may click the links to view. For further assistance contact your GRCC librarian at 616-234-3868.

References
Andriani, Lynn. “Truth in nonfiction … and fiction.” Publishers Weekly 24 Aug. 2009: 38. General OneFile. Web. 11 Oct. 2011.
Kinsella, Bridget. “Media flocks to Scribner’s ‘Glass Castle’.” Publishers Weekly 7 Feb. 2005: 20. General OneFile. Web. 11 Oct. 2011.
Windolf, Jim. “A Secret of Her Own; Even as she made her name dishing celebrity dirt at New York and MSNBC.” Vanity Fair Apr. 2005: 184. General OneFile. Web. 11 Oct. 2011.

Kristof kicks off GRCC’s Diversity Lecture Series

By Nan Schichtel, Information Literacy & Outreach Librarian and
Miriam Thompson, Reference/Access Services Librarian

Nicholas D. Kristof, the first speaker in this year’s Diversity Lecture Series lineup, will speak on Monday, September 26, 2011. Click on the title link for GRCC Library title availability.
Half the Sky
China Wakes
Thunder from the East

Kristof is a prolific author and a New York Times newspaper columnist. His commentaries on the plight of women and children worldwide have spurred sociologists, political scientists, and others to action.

Article URLS below may be accessed off-campus with your last name and GRCC Raider number.

•Brysk, Alison. “Beyond framing and shaming: human trafficking, human security and human rights.” Journal of Human Security 5.3 (2009): 8+. Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Sep. 2011.
•Hart, Shilpa A., and J.P. Singh. “Sex workers and cultural policy: mapping the issues and actors in Thailand.” The Review of Policy Research 24.2 (2007): 155+. Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Sep. 2011.
•Kristof, Nicholas D. “The D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution.” The New York Times Magazine 24 Oct. 2010: 48(L). Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Sep. 2011.
•Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl Wudunn. “The Women’s Crusade.” The New York Times Magazine 23 Aug. 2009: 28(L). Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Sep. 2011.