Martha McCaughey
Martha McCaughey | |
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| Born | October 25, 1966 |
| Occupation | Academic writer |
| Language | English |
| Education | movie violence |
| Notable works | Real Knockouts |
Martha McCaughey (born October 25, 1966) is an American academic and author. She was the director of
Women's Studies at Appalachian State University at, prior to that, at Virginia Tech. Her research and writings have dealt extensively with evolutionary psychology as applied to gender
. She is the author of The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates over Sex, Violence, and Science (2008, Routledge), which takes an original perspective on the "science wars" and also challenges both evolutionary psychologists and their feminist critics to think about masculinities as textual.
Writings
Among McCaughey's writings are two similarly titled books: Real Knockouts: the Physical Feminism of Women’s Self-Defense (
ISBN 0-292-75251-2
), which she co-edited in 2001 with Neal King.
Real Knockouts made McCaughey's mark in
battered wife syndrome
affect the legal system's judgement on whether or not a woman's self-defense is legitimate.
Reel Knockouts (co-edited with Neal M. King) is a collection of essays that examine portrayals of violent women in film.
She is also the co-editor, with Michael D. Ayers, of Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice (2003, Routledge), and the editor of Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web (2014, Routledge).
Most recently, McCaughey has written a number of essays on feminism, academic freedom, and the purpose of the university.
References
- ^ "Martha McCaughey Vitae". Retrieved March 10, 2013.
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