Discussions in the Garden September 22, 2004

Laura Flanders, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species

Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 7 p.m.

From the US workplace to the international arena, the Bush administration has wrapped female-friendly rhetoric around some of the most hard-core policy since Ronald Reagan. Some well-placed women have helped to create this smokescreen. The Bushwomen (women appointed to the inner circle of the presidentšs cabinet and sub-cabinet) are a strange breed. Highly-placed yet rarely covered by the me dia, they act as fronts for an extremist administration. Flanders discusses this cynical crusade to win swing voters who can decide this upcoming election.

As part of its ten-year anniversary celebration, the MAK Center for Art & Architecture takes further inspiration from its socially and aesthetically radical home, the Schindler House, with the launch of a thought-provoking series, Discussions in a Garden. Modeled after Pauline Schindleršs salons of the same name held in the 1950s, the first group of talks will be politically-themed. Working with Amy Scholder, the US Editor of Verso Books, the MAK Center has invited three authors for the fall sessions: Laura Flanders, Carol Brightman and Tom Hayden. Topics include the role of women in the Bush administration; the myth of unilateral American power; gangs and law-and-order politics. The series will continue in Spring 2005 with Gary Indiana addressing the recent California gubernatorial recall, and others. Admission is by donation. Seating is limited. Reservations strongly recommended: 323 651-1510