Former President Jimmy Carter is coming to Chicago to promote his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Thursday, March 27, 6-8 p.m.
The event is hosted by Women & Children First Bookstore, at the Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark. The event will be a signing only.
Tickets are required. A purchase of A Call to Action from Women & Children First comes with a free ticket to the book signing. The book publishes on March 25; the price including tax is $30.60. Call 773-769-9299 or go to www.womenandchildrenfirst.com for more information or to pre-order a book and secure your ticket.
Carter's A Call to Action is being published in late March and is a book about women's rights. In the president's travels around the world, he has noted many abuses against women and girls, as well as the religious beliefs that are sometimes used to justify those abuses. The president is the author of numerous other books, most recently the controversial Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
Other upcoming authors at the store, located at 5233 N. Clark St., include Chicagoan Peggy Shinner March 30 for her book You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body, and March 5, contributors to The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality ( editor Avital Norman Nathman and contributors Deborah Siegel and Gina Crosely-Corcoran ) .
