Kathleen B. Jones

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Born
New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materThe City University of New York
Occupation
  • Author
  • Political scientist

Kathleen B. Jones is an American author and political scientist.

Life

Jones was born and grew up in New York. She now lives in Fairfield, CA with her spouse, Amy.[1]

Career

Jones studied political science, gaining a B.A. at Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. at The City University of New York. She taught women's studies at San Diego State University, then quit teaching to focus on her career as an author, earning an M.F.A in fiction from Fairfield University.[2] She began literary writing in the late 1990s, when her student Andrea O'Donnell was murdered and Jones wrote her account of loss and mourning, Living Between Danger and Love.[3]

Publications

Non-Fiction Books

  • The Political Interests of Gender: Developing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1988)
  • Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women (Routledge, 1993)
  • Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (NYU Press, 1997)
  • Living Between Danger and Love: The Limits of Choice (Thinking Women Books, 2000)
  • Sexuality, Gender and Power: Intersectional and Transnational
  • Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt (Thinking Women Books, 2013)

Fiction Books

  • Cities of Women (Turner Publishing Company, 2024)

Plays

  • Acts of Faith (2009)
  • The Origin of the Seasons (2016)

References

  1. "CITIES OF WOMEN/Cover Reveal". Kathleen B. Jones. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  2. Jones, Kathleen B. (18 June 2024). Cities of Women. Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-68442-032-2.
  3. "About Kathy". Kathleen B. Jones. Retrieved 2024-01-16.

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