On Wednesday, November 5, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., Ann Snitow, associate professor of Literature and Gender Studies at Eugene Lang College, and Susie Orbach, visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research, will have a discussion about the roles of body image and weight in a feminist context.

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, writer. She has been thinking about and working with eating problems for over 30 years, co-founding the Women's Therapy Centre in London in 1976, and the Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York in 1981. She has written extensively on women's psychology and the construction of femininity and gender, feminism and psychoanalysis, and globalization and body image. Her numerous publications include the classic, Fat is a Feminist Issue, along with such other influential texts as Hunger Strike, The Impossibility of Sex, among others. Her newest book, Bodies, will be published in January 2009. She is the convener of the body activist group, www.any-body.org, and lectures extensively in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Orbach has served as consultant to the World Bank and has been working with the DOVE Campaign for Real Beauty for the last five years to change media images to more accurately reflect who we are.

Ann Snitow is a feminist activist and writer. Her most recent work includes The Feminist Memoir Project, edited with Rachel Blau Duplessis.