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REACT to FILM's College Action Network Presents

A Pre-Release Screening of

Miss Representation

by Jennifer Siebel Newsom

Sponsored by The Department of English, Wilson College &

The Program in Gender and Sexuality

Join us for a post-show discussion with MEGAN McCAFFERTY, New York Times  best-selling author of the Jessica Darling series and BUMPED, who is adapting her novels for film; MICHELE TUCK-PONDER, Esq., Executive Director of the Women's Fund of New Jersey and former mayor of Princeton; and KATHLEEN CROWN, PhD, Director of Studies at Mathey College.

About the film:

When the new documentary film Miss Representation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences were riveted, and Oprah Winfrey acquired its broadcast rights. Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom interwove stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from the likes of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Dr. Jackson Katz, Dr. Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem to give us an inside look at the media and its message. 

As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman’s primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality—and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential.

The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective, and asking the question, “What can we do?”