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]

Early life and education

Rosalind Pollack Petchesky was born in Bay City, Texas to Roberta Friedman and Simon Pollack.[3]

Petchesky graduated from Smith College summa cum laude, and has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. She previously taught at Ramapo College.

Career

Petchesky is known for incorporating differing theoretical frameworks, including ethics, political philosophy, history, political science, and others, into the study of reproductive rights.[4]

From 1972 to 1987 she was Professor of Political and Social Theory at Ramapo College of New Jersey. In 1987 she was hired as Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of Women's Studies at Hunter College in New York. Petchesky lectures widely and is the author/editor of many professional articles and numerous books.[3]

Petchesky is on the international advisory board of Signs,[5] an international journal in women's and gender studies.

Petchesky retired from teaching in 2013.[4]

Awards

Works
  • Petchesky, Rosalind P. (1984). "Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom". Boston: Northeastern University Press: 412. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) 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 (eds.), 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. doi:10.2307/3177802. JSTOR 3177802. S2CID 41193716.
  • 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 (eds.), 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. (eds.), 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.

References
  1. "Rosalind Pollack Petchesky — Hunter College". www.hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  2. "International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group". OCLC WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  3. "Collection: Rosalind Petchesky papers | Smith College Finding Aids". findingaids.smith.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-28. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.
  4. "Rosalind P. Petchesky - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  5. "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society -". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
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