Jessica Calarco

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A close-up of Jessica Calarco.
Jessica Calarco
For her new book, Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, UW-Madison associate professor of sociology Jessica Calarco surveyed more than 4,000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women to reveal — in the words of the book’s publisher — “a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt.” It’s a heady topic, and Doug Moe will be interviewing Calarco to help attendees make sense of the author’s bold call to demand institutional change. Seating is limited for this free event, and RSVPs are encouraged; links at mysterytomebooks.com.