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Kathleen B. Jones

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New York, The United States

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Memoir, Historical Fiction, Philosophy

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Born and educated in New York, Kathleen B. Jones taught Women’s Studies for twenty-four years at San Diego State University.

Her academic writing includes Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women, (Routledge, 1993), The Political Interests of Gender, (Sage, 1988), and The Political Interests of Gender Revisited, (Manchester University Press, 2009) both edited with Anna G. Jónasdóttir, and Women Transforming Politics (New York University Press, 1997) edited with Cathy Cohen and Joan Tronto, She was founding co-editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics from 1997-2005.

Her creative non-fiction includes Living Between Danger and Love, (Rutgers University Press, 2000), a memoir about the difficult choices ...more

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Cities of Women, a novel

I may have been silent about my writing for some time, but I have not been inactive.

Just returned from an eight-day writing residency on Enders Island, Connecticut, a program sponsored by Fairfield University as part of the M.F.A. in creative writing, which I began this summer. (Yes, you read that correctly. I have begun graduate studies in creative writing on the cusp of my 70th birthday. Why no

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	Cities of Women 3.21 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Between Danger and Love: The Limits of Choice 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face by Ann G. Jonasdottir (Editor), Kathleen B. Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hypathia: Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale (Vol. 12) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Sexuality, Gender and Power: Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives by Anna G. Jónasdóttir (Editor), Kathleen B. Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Valerie Bryson (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Volume 6 Number 1 2004 INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS by Gillian Youngs, Kathleen B. Jones (Goodreads Author), Rekhe Pande 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Cascading down its front were dozens of photos of the revolutionary women of the Paris Commune”
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“architecture and the owl in Hegel’s theory of history,”
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