Feminist Scholar Joan Tronto to Inaugurate Lewis Lecture Series By Betty Gabrielli
			OCTOBER 6, 1999-- Oberlin alumna Joan Tronto, one of the nation's leading scholars of feminist political theory, will return to campus Sunday to inaugurate the John D. Lewis Memorial Lecture series. The John D. Lewis Memorial Lectureship Fund supports the free public lectures, which will take place Sunday, October 10, and Monday, October 11. Named for a longtime Oberlin faculty member and political theorist, the series is under the auspices of the politics department. Tronto will deliver "What’s Wrong with the Work Ethic" Sunday and "Democracy as a Caring Practice" Monday. Both lectures begin at 7:30 P.M. in Wilder 101. A reception in Wilder 109 will follow the Sunday talk. Tronto is the author of Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care--widely acclaimed as an attempt to broaden democratic theory to incorporate feminist concerns. She is professor of political science and women's studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. A frequent contributor of articles to scholarly journals on feminist theory and women in American politics, Tronto graduated from Oberlin in 1974 and received the Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1981.
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