Jo Freeman is a political scientist and attorney. Jo's new book, We Will Be Heard: Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States, has been published by Rowman and Littlefield. The previous book is At Berkeley in the Sixties: Education of an Activist (Indiana U. Press 2004) and before that, A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) was reviewed by Emily Mitchell, a Senior Women Web Culture Watch critic.
A Room at a Time has been awarded the Leon Epstein prize.
This prize is given by the POP
section of the APSA to a recent book that makes an "outstanding
contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations
and parties."
The History Book Club, a division of the Book-of-the-Month Club,
selected At Berkeley in the Sixties for one of its paperback
book features. For more information about the book visit: http://www.jofreeman.com/books/Berkeley.htm
Jo's other books include:
The Politics of Women's Liberation (1975), winner of
a 1975 prize from the American Political Science Association
for the Best Scholarly Book on Women and Politics; five
editions of Women: A Feminist Perspective (ed.). She
has also edited Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies
(1983), and (with Victoria Johnson) Waves of Protest: Social
Movements Since the Sixties. She has a Ph.D. in Political
Science from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from New York
University School of Law. Read more by and about Jo at http://www.jofreeman.com
and email her with comments and questions at joreen@jofreeman.com
