
Dorothy Dinnerstein (1923–1992)
Author of The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise
About the Author
Dorothy Dinnerstein was born in a poor Jewish section of the Bronx, New York, in 1923. As a psychologist, she worked with such luminaries as Wolfgang Khler, Max Wertheimer, and Solomon Asch. She was a distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University for thirty years and lived in New show more Jersey until her death in a car accident in 1992. show less
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- 1923-04-04
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- 1992-12-17
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