Judith 1931
Dr. Judith Lorber
(*1931)
The gender researcher
Born
1931 in Brookyin, New York, USA
Family branch
Professions and offices
Sociologist, gender researcher
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Judith Lorber is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Women's Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is a fundamental theorist in the social construction of gender differences and has played an important role in the formation and transformation of gender studies. More recently, it has demanded that the social world deteriorate.
Lorber was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she grew up. She graduated from Queens College, CUNY, in 1952 and received an MA and a doctorate from New York University in 1971. From 1972 she developed and taught some of the first courses in gender sociology, women's studies and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate School, where she was the first coordinator of the certificate for women's studies from 1988–1991. From 1992 to 1993 she was chair of the ASA Department of Sex and Gender and was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award in 1996, “in recognition of scientific work that broadened the horizon of sociology to fully embrace the role of women in society to capture."
She taught at Fordham University in the Bronx, Brooklyn College, and CUNY Graduate School until she retired in 1995.
Her work dealt with topics such as:
- Gender, mental health and disease
- Feminist politics
- "Towards a world beyond gender"
- "Belief is Seeing: Biology as Ideology"
She has published a number of books.
Honors and offices
In 1996, Judith Lorber received the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Career Award for "scientific work that broadened the horizon of sociology to fully grasp the role of women in society." From 2001 to 2002 she was President of the Eastern Sociological Society, Chair of the Gender and Gender Department of the American Sociological Association in 1993 and President of the Sociologist for Women in Society from 1981–82.
She has held several international visiting professorships. From 1992 to 1993 she received a Fulbright Prize for lectures at Bar Ilan University and for research in Israel. In 1996 she was a visiting professor at the Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland. In 1997 she held the Marie Jahoda International Visiting Professorship for feminist studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In recent years she has been a visiting professor at the University of Dortmund, the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg and was a Fulbright senior specialist at Bar Ilan University.
Lorber was invited and gave conference presentations in almost all states in the United States. She had two teaching assignments for the Eastern Sociological Society (Maurice Falk 1978 and 1981 and Robin Williams 1996-1997) and the Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in 1992. [32] She was invited to work on international sociology and conferences Present women's studies in China, Africa, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Israel, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Switzerland.
She has held several international visiting professorships. From 1992 to 1993 she received a Fulbright Prize for lectures at Bar Ilan University and for research in Israel. In 1996 she was a visiting professor at the Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland. In 1997 she held the Marie Jahoda International Visiting Professorship for feminist studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum. In recent years she has been a visiting professor at the University of Dortmund, the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg and was a Fulbright senior specialist at Bar Ilan University.
Lorber was invited and gave conference presentations in almost all states in the United States. She had two teaching assignments for the Eastern Sociological Society (Maurice Falk 1978 and 1981 and Robin Williams 1996-1997) and the Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in 1992. [32] She was invited to work on international sociology and conferences Present women's studies in China, Africa, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Israel, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Switzerland.