Alice R. Wexler
Author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
About the Author
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Works by Alice R. Wexler
Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War (1989) 53 copies, 1 review
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008) 28 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Our Generation Vol. 17 no. 1 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Wexler, Alice Ruth
- Birthdate
- 1942-05-31
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Stanford University (BA ∙ 1964)
Georgetown University (MA ∙ 1966)
Indiana University (PhD ∙ 1972) - Occupations
- university professor
- Organizations
- National Writers Union
American Historical Association
American Studies Association
PEN
Western Association of Women Historians
Huntington's Disease Society of America (show all 8)
University of California, Los Angeles (Center for the Study of Women)
Sonoma State University (history professor) - Agent
- Frances Goldin
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Map Location
- USA
Members
Reviews
Although this book is ostensibly focuses on the intellectual and social history of Huntington's Chorea, it also contributes to a broader history of how evolving concepts of heredity, along with highly stigmatizing eugenic theory and policy, transformed the experience of genetic illness in the modern era.
Forgotten in this country, Goldman was an anarchist exiled to Russia. A feminist and a firebrand, she should be better remembered. This is based on her correspondence over her years in exile.
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Statistics
- Works
- 6
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 275
- Popularity
- #84,338
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 13