Laurel Richardson

Author of Feminist Frontiers

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About the Author

Laurel Richardson, Ph.D. (1963), University of Colorado, is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. She has been honored with multiple awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Research.

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Works by Laurel Richardson

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Feminist Frontiers (1983) — Editor — 357 copies

The Dynamics of Sex and Gender: A Sociological Perspective (1977) 37 copies

Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences (Qualitative Research Methods) (1990) 27 copies

Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life (1997) 21 copies

The New Other Woman: Contemporary Single Women in Affairs With Married Men (1985) 15 copies

LAST WRITES: A DAYBOOK FOR A DYING FRIEND (Writing Lives) (2007) 10 copies

Travels with Ernest : crossing the literary/sociological divide (2004) 5 copies

After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn (2013) 4 copies

Seven Minutes from Home: An American Daughter's Story (Personal/Public Scholarship) (2016) 4 copies

Lone twin : a true story of loss and found (2019) 2 copies

A story of a marriage through dementia and beyond : love in a whirlwind (2022) 2 copies

Feminist Frontiers 6th edition (2003) 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1936
Gender: female
Education: Shimer College
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
Short biography: Laurel Richardson (b. 1936) is an American sociologist known for her work on qualitative sociology and the sociology of gender. Her numerous works include Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences, The New Other Woman, and The Dynamics of Sex and Gender. She has received numerous commendations and honors for her work, including a Feminist Mentor Award frm the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and a commendation from the Ohio state legislature for her work on reducing inequality. Richardson received her undergraduate education at Shimer College, where she enrolled through the early entrance program, and at the University of Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado. She is currently a professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, where she taught from 1969 to her retirement in 2004. (from Shimer College Wiki)