Rosalind P. Petchesky

Rosalind Pollack Petchesky (born August 16, 1942) is an American political scientist, and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York.^[1] She is the founder of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRAG).^[2]

She graduated from Smith College summa cum laude with a B.A., from Columbia University with a PhD. in Political Science. She taught at Ramapo College.

Awards

• 1995 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (1984). "Abortion and Woman's Choice: The Sate, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom". Boston: Northeastern University Press: 412. The first edition was winner of the American Historical Association's 1984 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History. Second revised edition: 1990.
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (1985), "Abortion in the 1980's: feminist morality and women's health", in Lewin, Ellen; Olesen, Virginia, Women, Health, and Healing: Toward a New Perspective, New York: Tavistock Publications
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (Summer 1987). "Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction". Feminist Studies. 13 (2): 263–292.
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (Fall 2003). "Response". Dissent. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (October 2001). "Phantom towers: feminist reflections on the battle between global capitalism and fundamentalist terrorism". Socialistische Positionen [Socialist Positions]. Germany.
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (22 March 2006). "On the unstable marriage of reproductive and sexual rights: the case for a trial separation". Conscience. Catholics for Choice.
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (2000), "Sexual rights: inventing a concept, mapping an international practice", in Parker, Richard G.; Barbosa, Regina M.; Aggleton, Peter, Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and power, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 81–103, ISBN 9780520218383. Preview.
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (1997), "Spiraling discourses of reproductive and sexual rights", in Tronto, Joan C.; Cohen, Cathy J.; Jones, Kathleen B., Women transforming politics: an alternative reader, New York: New York University Press, ISBN 9780814715581. Preview.
• Petchesky, Rosalind P. (September 2012). Perspectivas críticas sobre el empoderamiento [Society for International Development]. Gender and Diversity Department, Buenos Aires Chapter. External link in |publisher= (help)

References

1. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/polit/pages/faculty/m_z.htm#p
2. http://www.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/dp.html

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