Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Distinguished Lecture
A Special Session at the ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
Please attend Judith Lorber’s address titled "Can Men Mother?" It draws on her recent book, "Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change". This AKD Distinguished Speaker event is scheduled for 4:30 - 6:10 pm on Saturday, August 13, 2005 at the Philadelphia Marriott in Grand Salon A.
JUDITH LORBER is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at Brooklyn College and The Graduate School, City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1971 and began developing and teaching courses in women's studies in 1972. She was the first Coordinator of the CUNY Graduate School Women's Studies Certificate Program and was Founding Editor of Gender & Society, official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society.
She received the American Sociological Association Jessie Bernard Career Award for her contributions to feminist scholarship in 1996. She was Chair of the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association in 1993 and President of Sociologists for Women in Society in 1981-82. She was President of the Eastern Sociological Society in 2001-2002, and she has held international visiting professorships in Israel, Finland, and Germany.
She is the author of Paradoxes of Gender, Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics, Gender and the Social Construction of Illness, and Women Physicians: Careers, Status and Power, as well as numerous articles on gender and on women as health care workers and patients. She is co-editor of Revisioning Gender and The Social Construction of Gender and is co-editing a Handbook of Gender Studies and Women's Studies. She is also writing a text with readings, Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives from Birth to Death. She has just published a new book, Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change, from which this talk is taken.
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