Cathy Young
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| Birth name | Ekaterina Jung | |
| Born | 1963 | |
| Birth place | Soviet Union | |
| Education | Rutgers University | |
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| Occupation | Journalist, writer, research associate | |
| Ethnicity | Russian American | |
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Cathy Young (born Ekaterina Jung, 1963) is a journalist and writer. She writes columns for Reason (monthly) and The Boston Globe (weekly), and is the author of many books and articles. Her writing commonly espouses equality feminism.
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[edit] Early life
Born in the Soviet Union in 1963, Young emigrated to the United States in 1980 with her family at the age of 17.
In 1988, Young graduated from Rutgers University, where she was a columnist for the student newspaper, The Daily Targum. While still a student, she began to write for The Detroit News and started working on her first book, Growing Up In Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (1989).
[edit] Writing career
From 1993 to 2000, Young was a regular columnist for The Detroit News. In the 1990s, she also became active as a free-lance journalist, with her work appearing in a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, National Review, Salon.com, and Reason. Her second book, Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, was published in 1999.
Since 2000, Young has been a weekly editorial page columnist for the Boston Globe. In 2001, she began to write a monthly column for Reason magazine, where she is also a contributing editor.
Young is a research associate at The Cato Institute in Washington, DC, for which she co-wrote a 1996 policy analysis paper, "Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism"?
In addition to appearing on a number of radio and television shows, Young has spoken widely on college campuses. In 2001 and 2002, she taught a 3-week gender issues course at Colorado College.
Young's writing cover a variety of topics in politics and culture, with a particular focus on gender issues and feminism. Her writings reflect an individualist feminist perspective (c.f. Wendy McElroy). Her writings strive toward a scrupulous evenhandedness, and criticizes both liberals and conservatives as she sees fit. She frequently agrees with men's rights activists but will call them to task for emulating the identity politics associated with some forms of feminism.
Young maintains a regular blog called The Y-Files.
[edit] Bibliography
- Growing Up In Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (1989) ISBN 0709041306
- Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (1999) ISBN 0684834421
