Judith Lorber

Judith Lorber (born November 28, 1931) is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has more recently called for a de-gendering of the social world. Lorber was actively involved in Sociologists for Women in Society from the early 1970's. She developed and taught some of the first courses in the sociology of gender, women's studies, and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, where she was the first Coordinator of the Women's Studies Certificate Program in 1988-1991. She was Chair of the ASA Sex and Gender Section in 1992-93 and was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award in 1996 “in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society.

Affiliations:

-CUNY - Graduate Center and Brooklyn College

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Lorber

	Title	Lead Author/Editor	Pub Date	Price
	Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies	Kathy Davis	06-12-2006	$150.00

	Title	ISSN	Frequency	Prices
	Contemporary Sociology	0094-3061	Bi-monthly	Institutional: $354.00