Non-Fiction: Women, War, and Pornography

KGB Non-fiction presents Women, War and Pornography with Tara McKelvey, Ada Calhoun and Laura Frost—contributors to One of the Guys.

Four years ago, the world was shocked at the photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.  As awful as the acts themselves were, newspapers were also preoccupied with the fact that American military women were involved in the violence.   "Leash girl" Lynndie England and her cohorts made for titillating headlines.  This evening's readers, all contributors to the anthology One of the Guys:  Women as Aggressors and Torturers, will consider how three themes--women, war, and pornography--came together in dramatic fashion in the Iraq war, specifically in the Abu Ghraib scandal. 

Tara McKelvey is a senior editor at The American Prospect, a contributing editor at Marie Claire, a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and a research fellow at NYU School of Law's Center on Law and Security. She is also the author of "Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War," now out in paperback from Basic Books.  

Ada Calhoun is editor-in-chief of the parenting site Babble.com, a consulting editor at the online sex-and-culture magazine Nerve.com, a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and a blogger for AOL News.
 
Laura Frost is a professor of English at Yale University.  Her specialty is twentieth-century literature and the history of sexuality.  Her book, "Sex Drives," looks at how fascism is eroticized in art and literature.   She's currently working on a book about modernism and pleasure