Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Victoria Pitts-Taylor | |
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| Born | Victoria Leigh Pitts |
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| Alma mater | Brandeis University |
| Thesis | Body strategies: signifying the body in subculture (1999) |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Sociology, women's studies |
Victoria Pitts-Taylor (
CUNY Graduate Center, New York,[4] and visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, New York.[5] Pitts-Taylor is also former co-editor of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly.[6] She has won the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociological Association,[7] and the Feminist Philosophy of Science Prize from the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.[8]
Education
Pitts-Taylor gained her PhD in Sociology in 1999 from Brandeis University.[1]
Publications
- Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2003). In the flesh: the cultural politics of body modification. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312293116.
- Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2007). Surgery junkies: wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813541624.
- Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2008). The cultural encyclopedia of the body, Vol. I and 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313341458.
- Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2016). Mattering: feminism, science and materialism. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9781479845439.
- Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2016). The brain's body: neuroscience and corporeal politics. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822361268.
References
- ^ OCLC 42748009.
- ^ "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan University. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". cuny.is. Queens College. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- Graduate Center, CUNY. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ "Visiting fellows". socialdifference.columbia.edu. Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- JSTOR 41290271.
- ^ "Science, Knowledge, and Technology". American Sociological Association. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Julien, Alec. "Women's Caucus Home". womenscaucus.philsci.org. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
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