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Barreca is back with more side-splitting humor!
Join United Way's Women's Leadership Initiative in Atlantic County for the 8th Annual Sweet Laughs event taking place on Wednesday, November 13 starting at 3 p.m. at Stockton Seaview Hotel & Golf Club.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Gina Barreca's latest book is the updated version of her bestselling classic: "They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor", which was called "smart and funny" by PEOPLE magazine and the prompt for a title of "feminist humor maven" by Ms. Magazine. She's the editor of Make Mine A Double: Why Women Like Us Like To Drink (or Not) and author of It's Not That I'm Bitter: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World and has appeared on 20/20, The Today Show, CNN, the BBC, NPR, Oprah, and Dr. Phil. Other books include Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League and Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing. Barreca, whose columns from The Hartford Courant are distributed worldwide by the McClatchy-Tribune Syndicate, is Professor of English and Feminist Theory at the University of Connecticut. Her B.A. is from Dartmouth College, where she was one of the first classes of women, her M.A. is from an all-women's college at Cambridge University, and her Ph.D. is from the City University of New York. Barreca blogs regularly for Psychology Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Huffington Post; she has also written for The New York Times, The Independent (of London), Cosmopolitan, The Harvard Business Review, and other newspapers and magazines worldwide. A book signing will immediately follow her program.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own books authored by Barreca or a limited number of Barreca's books will be available for purchase.
Additionally, WLI is collecting new or gently used children's books (up to age six) that will be incorporated into the early literacy component of Success By 6®. Attendees are encouraged to bring book donations to the event.
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