Lois Banner
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Lois Wendland Banner, more commonly known as Lois W. Banner (born 1939) is an American feminist author
.
She received her Ph.D.
at Columbia University
. She is the author of the textbook Women in Modern America: A Brief History, which is commonly used in introductory Women's Studies college classes.
Her newest work, Intertwined Lives : Margaret Mead
, Ruth Benedict
, and Their Circle, narrates in an exploratory style the secrets of the lives of these two intellectual anthropologists. Currently, she is a History professor at the University of Southern California
. She teaches History courses, which include topics such as Gender & Sexuality and Women's Studies.
From her staff page, her research:
Author
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.
She received her Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. She is the author of the textbook Women in Modern America: A Brief History, which is commonly used in introductory Women's Studies college classes.
Her newest work, Intertwined Lives : Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
, Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist, cultural relativist, and folklorist....
, and Their Circle, narrates in an exploratory style the secrets of the lives of these two intellectual anthropologists. Currently, she is a History professor at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. She teaches History courses, which include topics such as Gender & Sexuality and Women's Studies.
From her staff page, her research:
- "Beginning with a focus on religion in the early republic, my work has broadened to be located in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries more generally and has come to rest in the history of gender, sexuality, and culture, in line with what has been at the intellectual and methodological forefront of the fields of women's history and women's studies. In terms of race and ethnicity, two other areas at the forefront of the field of women's and gender historyGender historyGender history is a sub-field of History and Gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender. It is in many ways, an outgrowth of women's history.-Impact:...
, I have always integrated that material into my Women in Modern America, first published by Harcourt, Brace in 1972 and continually in print since that date."
Works
- Women in Modern America: A Brief History, 1974
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women's Rights. Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1979.
- American Beauty, Alfred Knopf, 1983.
- Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women, Columbia University Press, 1998.
- In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality, Alfred Knopf, 1992.
- Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle, Alfred Knopf, 2003.