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Jane Mansbridge is
Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values
at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Faculty Chair
of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School. She is the
author of Beyond Adversary Democracy and Why We Lost the ERA (co-recipient
of the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award in 1987 and
its Schuck Award in 1988); editor of Beyond Self-Interest; coeditor,
with Susan Moller Okin, of Feminism, a two-volume collection; and
coeditor, with Aldon Morris, of a forthcoming collection on Oppositional
Consciousness. She is now working on Everyday Feminism, a study
of nonactivists in a social movement, derived from interviews with low income
women.
Mansbridge received her
Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard University, her M.A. from
the History Department at Harvard, and her B.A. from Wellesley College. She
was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in l994,
and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, the Russell
Sage Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study. She has been Vice-President
and Program Chair of the American Political Science Association, President
of the APSA Caucus for Women in Political Science, and President of the Society
for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. She has been or is now on the editorial
boards of Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Social Justice
Research and The Journal of Politics, and the advisory boards
of Signs and Ethics.
She has been involved with
the feminist movement since 1968, when she coauthored the chapter on sexuality
in the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. She was founding co-chair
of the Organization of Women Faculty at Northwestern University in 1981,
and remained active until leaving the university in 1996. In that year, the
Organization of Women Faculty created the Jane Mansbridge Scholar-Activist
Award, given to an outstanding student each year.
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