| Shira Tarrant | |
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| Occupation | Author, Professor, Feminist |
| Notable work(s) | Men and Feminism When Sex Became Gender Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power |
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www.shiratarrant.com |
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Shira Tarrant, is an American writer on gender politics, feminism, sexuality, pop culture, and masculinity. She is the author of Men and Feminism (Seal Press), When Sex Became Gender (Routledge) and editor of the anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge). Her co-edited anthology, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style, will be out in 2012 (SUNY Press, with Marjorie Jolles).
Tarrant's articles on gender politics appear in AlterNet.org, Bitch, Bust, Ms. blog, off our backs, Women's Studies Quarterly, Genre, The Huffington Post, The Journal of Intercultural Studies, The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. Tarrant's essays on pop culture are also featured in anthologies including Fix Me Up: Essays on Television Dating and Makeover Shows (McFarland) and Robot Hearts (Pinchback Press). Her essays about misogyny, womanism, Internet pornography and white masculinity appear in the International Encyclopedia of Political Science (Sage Publications) and the Encyclopedia of Gender in Media (Sage Publications).
A frequent speaker at college campuses and public venues across the country, Tarrant is quoted widely in print, radio, television, and online media. She was selected by Progressive Women's Voices for its media and leadership training program, and was named a Woman to Watch by the Women's Media Center, based in New York City.
Shira Tarrant is an unconventional feminist redefining gender rights. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Los Angeles, where she is an Associate Professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. She has a PhD in political science from UCLA.[1]
She is currently at work on the book The Sex Wars: Pole Dancing, Porn and Other Things That Freak People Out and the anthology, Pleasure and Peril: True Stories About Sex, Self-Acceptance, and Saying Yes in a World That (Sometimes) Says No.
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When Sex Became Gender (Routledge 2006) [2]
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge 2008)
Men and Feminism (Seal Press 2009)[3]
Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style (SUNY Press 2012, with Marjorie Jolles)