Lori Jo Marso, professor of Political Science and chair of Women's and Gender Studies, has written “Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women” (Routledge), due out in June.
The book examines the lives and work of historical and contemporary feminist thinkers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Sta¸l, Emma Goldman and Simone de Beauvoir. Marso creates a dialogue among these pioneering thinkers and argues that their theories should not be divorced from the struggles and contradictions of their actual lives.
Marso also has just published a co-edited book with University of Illinois, titled “Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking.”