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Bücher von Laurel Richardson
Laurel Richardson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University. She received her bachelor degrees from The University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. from The University of Colorado. She is the author of The Dynamics Of Sex And Gender, The New Other Woman, Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences, Gender And University Teaching, and the C. H. Cooley Award Winning Book, Fields Of Play: Constructing An Academic Life. She has received many honors for her academic work and for her work on behalf of social justice. She is currently writing an autoethnography, Movin' On, in which she integrates the personal with the political around issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Verta Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology and a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Center for Women's Studies at The Ohio State University, where she teaches courses on gender, women's studies, and social movements. She has won numerous teaching awards at Ohio State, including a University Distinguished Teaching Award, and a multicultural teaching award. In 195 she was co-recipient of the Sociologists for Women in Society's Mentoring Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, and was voted Chair-Elect of the Section on Sex and Gender of the American Sociological Association. She has written and co-authored many different books and her writings have appeared in numerous scholarly collections and in journals such as The American Sociological Review, Social Problems, and Journal of Marriage and Family. Nancy Whittier is Associate Professor of Sociology and a member of the Women's Studies Program Committee at Smith College. She teaches courses on gender, social movements, queer politics, and research methods. She received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, where she held a University Fellowship and a Presidential Dissertation Fellowship. Professor Whittier is the author of Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement, which traces the evolution of radical feminism over the past 25 years and examines intergenerational differences within the women's movement. Her work on the women's movement, social movement culture and collective identity, and activist generations has appeared in numerous scholarly collections and journals. She is currently co-editing a volume on new directions in social movement theory. She is also working on a book about the gender politics of the movement against child sexual abuse and its opponents.