# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Jessica Calarco in conv with Jennifer Haylett - Holding it Together (Ida Beam Visiting Professor)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Jessica Calarco, a 2025-2026 University of Iowa Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, will read from her recently published nonfiction book, Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net, and will be joined in conversation by Dr. Jennifer Haylett. Publisher Penguin Random House describes Calarco's book with a succinct summary: "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences." Jennifer Breheny Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of Never Enough, praises Holding It Together as "both an authoritative indictment of current and past US social policy and an empathetic, unsettling portrait of American motherhood," while Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America and author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, says: "Care is the cure for much of what ails us. But it is also often hard, tiring, uncompensated work that is pushed overwhelmingly onto women. Jess Calarco recounts moving, often wrenching, care stories of mothers, daughters, and wives across America, illustrating the deep injustice and short-sightedness of our current care system. Bring on the care union!"

Jessica Calarco is a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, an expert on families, schools, and inequalities, and a mom of two. She is the author of Negotiating Opportunities and A Field Guide to Grad School, the coauthor of Qualitative Literacy, and a contributor to The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post.

Jennifer Haylett conducts research and teaches in the areas of gender, family, medical sociology, sociology of reproduction, economic sociology, and qualitative research methods. Her dissertation, “From Contracted Employee to Fictive Kin: U.S. Commercial Surrogacy as a Case of Relational Work,” explores the relational work between surrogates and intended parents as they navigate the field of assisted reproductive technologies and grapple with placing a monetary value on the process of family formation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/iowa-city/jessica-calarco-in-conv-with-jennifer-haylett-holding-it-together-ida-beam-visiting-professor/200029938113131
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 22

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Iowa City
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240
- **lat**: 41.66073
- **long**: -91.53335
- **full address**: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Jessica Calarco in conv with Jennifer Haylett - Holding it Together (Ida Beam Visiting Professor) being held?
  - **A:** Jessica Calarco in conv with Jennifer Haylett - Holding it Together (Ida Beam Visiting Professor) takes place on Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Jessica Calarco in conv with Jennifer Haylett - Holding it Together (Ida Beam Visiting Professor)?
  - **A:** Jessica Calarco in conv with Jennifer Haylett - Holding it Together (Ida Beam Visiting Professor) is organized by Prairie Lights Bookstore.
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