Sex in Crisis

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Proposition 8, which passed in California on Election Day, was one of the most controversial issues on the ballots this year. Find out how debates over sexuality are shaping American politics. Dagmar Herzog’s new book is Sex in Crisis.

Events:
Panel discussion, “Power & Sex: America’s War on Sexual Rights”, with Dagmar Herzog, Faye Wattleton, Katha Pollitt, and Lynn Paltrow moderated by Michelle Fine.
Mon. Nov. 17 at 7:00 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets)
Free and open to the public

Dagmar Herzog will be speaking and signing books
Wed. Nov. 19 at 7:00 PM
Revolution Books
146 West 26th Street
Free and open to the public

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