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Victoria Pitts-Taylor

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Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Born
Victoria Leigh Pitts
Academic background
Alma materBrandeis University
ThesisBody strategies: signifying the body in subculture (1999)
Academic work
Main interestsSociology, women's studies

Victoria Pitts-Taylor (née Pitts)[1] is Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut,[2] and also Professor of Science in Society and Sociology there. She was formerly a professor of sociology at Queens College[3] and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York,[4] and visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, New York.[5] Pitts-Taylor is also former co-editor of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly.[6] She has won the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociological Association,[7] and the Feminist Philosophy of Science Prize from the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.[8]

Education

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Pitts-Taylor gained her PhD in Sociology in 1999 from Brandeis University.[1]

Publications

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  • Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2003). In the flesh: the cultural politics of body modification. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312293116.
  • Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2007). Surgery junkies: wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813541624.
  • Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2008). The cultural encyclopedia of the body, Vol. I and 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313341458.
  • Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2016). Mattering: feminism, science and materialism. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9781479845439.
  • Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2016). The brain's body: neuroscience and corporeal politics. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822361268.

References

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  1. ^ a b Pitts, Victoria L. (1999). Body strategies: signifying the body in subculture (Ph.D thesis). Brandeis University. OCLC 42748009.
  2. ^ "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan University. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". cuny.is. Queens College. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". centerforthehumanities.org. Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Visiting fellows". socialdifference.columbia.edu. Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  6. ^ Pitts-Taylor, Victoria; Schaffer, Talia (Spring–Summer 2011). "Editors' Note: Security, Safety, Safe". Women's Studies Quarterly. 39 (1–2). The Feminist Press: 9–12. doi:10.1353/wsq.2011.0017. JSTOR 41290271.
  7. ^ "Science, Knowledge, and Technology". American Sociological Association. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  8. ^ Julien, Alec. "Women's Caucus Home". womenscaucus.philsci.org. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
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