Author Listings (Gender Studies)
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| Farzana Doctor’s first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 2007. Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, will be published by The Dundurn Group in Winter 2011. Besides novels, Doctor has written on social work and diversity-related topics, and provide....[more] |
| Helen Fisher, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on the nature of romantic love and attachment, is the chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, a division of Match.com. She is the author of four previous books, two of which-"The First Sex" and "The Anatomy of Love"-were New York Times Notable Books. A research....[more] |
| Stan Guthrie is editor at large for Christianity Today and author, coauthor, and editor of numerous books. A frequent radio guest and podcaster, he is in demand as a public speaker, and has interviewed Charles Colson, Tony Dungy, Philip Jenkins, and many more.
Recently he moderated a panel discussion on the theme "....[more] |
| SANDRA HARMON
Sandra Harmon, author of “MAFIA SON, The Scarpa Mob Family, The FBI, And A Story of Betrayal”, has had an extraordinary career as a best-selling author, journalist, television writer, producer and film maker.
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She wrote and produced the television movie, "FAST FRIENDS" for NBC, which was based on....[more] |
| I was born in Bucharest, Romania and immigrated to the United States when I was almost twelve years old. Here I obtained an B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. At Princeton, I met and fell in love with my husband, Dan. We live in Michigan with our two children, S....[more] |
| Geoffrey Smith is a publisher, writer and photographer living in Gloucestershire, England. |
| Sarah Song is a professor of law and political science at U.C. Berkeley. Her fields of interest include political and legal philosophy and the history of American political thought. Her research focuses on contemporary liberal and democratic theory in relation to issues of citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, ....[more] |
| Carl Zimmer is the author of seven books about science and frequently for the New York Times, as well as for magazines including National Geographic, Discover, Scientific American, Science, and Popular Science. In 2007 he was awarded the National Academies Science Communication Award for "his diverse and consistently i....[more] |
| The Austrian psychologist and doctor, most famous for identifying and then naming the “inferiority complex”, helped usher in the era of individual psychology. Born in 1867 in Vienna, a severe childhood case of pneumonia greatly influenced Adler’s pursuit of medical knowledge. In 1895, he earned a medical degree from th....[more] |
| Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott, a well-known transcendentalist philosopher and educator, and Abigail May Alcott. In 1834, the Alcott family moved to Massachusetts, where they became acquainted with writers and ....[more] |
| A talented Frenchwoman known for her complex novels and strong feminist views. Simon de Beauvoir was born in 1908 in Paris. Beauvoir was educated at an all girl’s school and lived a fairly comfortable life until after World War I when her grandfather went bankrupt, throwing the family finances into disarray. Her father....[more] |
| Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist, journalist, and dramatist known for his depiction of English life and society in the “Five Towns” series of novels that was based on his birthplace, the Potteries district of Staffordshire, England.
Bennett was born in Burslem, one of the centers of the Staffordshi....[more] |
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