- Lois Banner
Lois Wendland Banner, more commonly known as Lois W. Banner (born 1939) is an American
feminist author .She received her Ph.D. at
Columbia University . She is the author of the textbook "", which is commonly used in introductory Women's Studies college classes.Her newest work, "Intertwined Lives :
Margaret Mead ,Ruth Benedict , and Their Circle", narrates in an exploratory style the secrets of the lives of these two intellectual anthropologists. Currently, she is a History professor at theUniversity of Southern California . She teaches History courses, which include topics such as Gender & Sexuality and Women's Studies.From her staff page, her research::"Beginning with a focus on religion in the early republic, my work has broadened to be located in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries more generally and has come to rest in the history of gender, sexuality, and culture, in line with what has been at the intellectual and methodological forefront of the fields of women's history and women's studies. In terms of race and ethnicity, two other areas at the forefront of the field of women's and
gender history , I have always integrated that material into my Women in Modern America, first published by Harcourt, Brace in 1972 and continually in print since that date."Works
* "Women in Modern America: A Brief History", 1974
* "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women's Rights." Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1979.
* "American Beauty", Alfred Knopf, 1983.
* "Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women", Columbia University Press, 1998.
* "In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality", Alfred Knopf, 1992.
* "Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle", Alfred Knopf, 2003.External links
* [http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/Faculty/f-files/Banner/Banner.html Lois Banner faculty page at USC]
*worldcat id|lccn-n79-141340
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