[378] FEMINIST AUTHOR PROCLAIMS “FEMINISM FOREVER” AT MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

FEMINIST AUTHOR PROCLAIMS “FEMINISM FOREVER” AT MTSU
National Women’s History Month Keynote Speaker is Author bell hooks

(MURFREESBORO) – The keynote speaker for this year’s National Women’s History Month celebration at MTSU is feminist author bell hooks (lower case is correct), who will deliver a presentation titled “Feminism Forever: Continuing the Struggle” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, in the Keathley University Center Theater.
Acclaimed as one of the nation’s leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic and one of “100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life” by Utne Reader, hooks’ first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981) was named one of the “20 most influential women’s books of the last 20 years” by Publishers’ Weekly in 1992. Her most recent books include Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics and Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism with Amalia Mesa-Bains.
This event is sponsored by the June Anderson Women’s Center, the National Women’s History Month and Black History Month committees, the Distinguished Lecture Fund and the Virginia Peck Trust.
For complete information, go to www.mtsu.edu/jawc or contact the June Anderson Women’s Center at 615-898-2193 or jawc@mtsu.edu.



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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a photo of bell hooks, contact Gina Logue in the MTSU Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu.