Dorothy Dinnerstein was an American academic and feminist activist, best known for her 1976 book The Mermaid and the Minotaur.
10 Facts About Dorothy Dinnerstein
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Dorothy Dinnerstein's theories were not widely accepted at the time they were published.
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Daniel and Dorothy Dinnerstein lived in the Greenwich Village section of NYC and then in Leonia NJ.
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Dorothy Dinnerstein started her graduate studies at Swarthmore College and earned the Ph.
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Dorothy Dinnerstein did her doctoral research under Solomon Asch, a prominent social psychologist.
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Dorothy Dinnerstein was central to the first Federal lawsuit against gender-based pay inequity in academia, and was an active participant in the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in the early 1980s.
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Dorothy Dinnerstein wrote from the perspectives of a microsociologist, a feminist, a humanist, an ecologist, and a psychoanalyst.
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Dorothy Dinnerstein argued that women are infantilized and degraded as a result of false perceptions that they are associated with the realm of childhood as opposed to the world of adulthood.
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On December 17,1992, at the age of 69, Dorothy Dinnerstein was killed in a car accident.
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Dorothy Dinnerstein was survived by a daughter and two step-daughters.