The Ohio State University at Newark will host a book signing and panel discussion on its campus for author, Lora Bex Lempert. Lempert is a professor emerita in sociology and women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan Dearborn. The book signing and panel discussion will feature her recent work, Women Doing Life:Gender, Punishment, and the Struggle for Identity. The piece largely explores the ways women in the state of Michigan, serving a life prison sentence, construct their lives. Lempert says about the book, “I challenge the decidedly male-oriented legislative, criminal justice, and popular cultural images of prison and criminals by offering a view of imprisoned women that is contemporarily invisible.”
Among various academic achievements, Lempert was the co-sponsor of the National Lifers of America chapter at a women’s correctional facility for 20 years. She was the lead instructor on a series of college level courses offered at that facility, a program that went on to win The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Progress in Equity Award in 2006. The event is sponsored by the Ohio State University Newark Outreach and Engagement Grant and the Ohio State University Distinguished Service Learning Award. Free and open to the public. The event will also be live broadcasted, in conjunction with the Criminal Justice Research Center, on the Ohio State University Columbus campus in Journalism 217, as well as the Dayton Correctional Institution and Ohio Reformatory for Women.
For more information contact Angela Bryant Ph.D.: bryant.74@osu.edu
Event Schedule
11 a.m.–12 p.m. Book presentation and Q&A
12 p.m.–12:15 p.m. Book Signing
12:15 p.m.–1 p.m. Inside-Out Prison Exchange Panel Discussion - broadcasted live to the CJRC (Ohio State Main Campus - Journalism 217), Dayton Correctional Institution and the Ohio Reformatory for Women.
