2024 Elections: An Existential Moment for Women's Rights

The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents
2024 Elections: An Existential Moment for Women's Rights
with Carrie N. Baker

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. ET
Online via Zoom

The MAGA policy agenda Project 2025 proposes a radical reversal of women's rights established over the last 50 years. In this talk, Professor Carrie Baker will explain the candidates' different visions of women' s rights and what's at stake in the November election for women's lives. 

Carrie N. Baker, J.D., Ph.D., is the Bauman professor of American Studies and Chair of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Her research and teaching focuson gender, law and public policy, including reproductive rights, sexual harassment and sex trafficking. She is a regular writer and contributing editor at Ms. magazine, has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and a monthly radio show, Feminist Futures, on WHMP in Northampton. Her forthcoming book, Abortion Pills: U.S. History and Politics (Amherst College Press) is due out in December.

All registrants will receive a link to the recording the day after the event.

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Ticket information:

Admission is $10 for OLLI at BCC and Berkshire Museum members, and $15 for the general public.

Admission is free for students, staff and faculty from Berkshire Community College, MCLA, Simon's Rock, and Williams; youth 17 and under, and those holding WIC, EBT/SNAP, or ConnectorCare cards.

Pre-registration is required. Register safely and securely online or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9am-4pm) to register by phone with a credit card.