Hypathia: Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale

by Kathleen B. Jones (Editor)

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

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 we make in the face of violence, and Diving for Pearls: A thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt, (Thinking Women Books, 2015) a memoir about her thirty year long fasciantion with the life and work of the philosopher Hannah Arendt.

Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Fiction International, Mr. Bellar’s Neighborhood, and The Briar Cliff Review l. Kathy was managing director of Laterthanever Productions, a non-profit regional theater in San Diego. Her first play, Acts of Faith, a world premiere based on the short stories of Grace Paley, was written in collaboration with Sharyn C. Blumenthal, and produced in March 2009 by Laterthanever Productions.

Among her numerous awards, she is a recipient of multiple grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, writers’ grants to the Vermont Studio Center, and an honorary doctorate from Örebro University, Sweden.