June 2008
Karen Vaughn Book Club
"What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live"

Book Club Gathering and Coffee Tasting
Theme: Women & Politics
June 24, 2008 7pm - 9pm
Starbuck Coffeehouse
Sheridan Street and North Park Road
Hollywood, One Mile west of 1-95

Synopsis
Women are the most powerful force reshaping the future of America. Stronger than political parties, mightier than religious differences, able to leap cultural schisms in a single bound, women are quietly exerting a unified power to make changes in our culture and in commerce, meeting in the middle to achieve their goals. But they're not using traditional means such as getting together and voting or banging on closed doors to demand equal access. In virtually every arena where American women are causing a sea change, they are bypassing the traditional settings that ignore their needs and are creating parallel circuits, which, in turn, then affect the old standards. Across political, religious, racial, and class differences, this new, vital, female center is heralding the most significant change in American culture in the past century. As you read this book think about what issues are important to you. During this historical political season...we have a voice. Let's begin to discuss the issues that reflect today's women. See you that this month's book gathering.