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14 Facts About Janice Raymond

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Janice G Raymond was born on January 24,1943 and is an American lesbian radical feminist and professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Janice Raymond has published numerous articles on prostitution and lectures internationally on many of these topics via the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.

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Janice Raymond received a BA in English literature from Salve Regina College in 1965, a master's degree in religious studies from Andover Newton Theological School in 1971, and her PhD in ethics and society from Boston College in 1977.

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Janice Raymond is professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Janice Raymond was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst from 1978 on.

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Since 2000, Janice Raymond has served as an adjunct professor of international health at Boston University School of Public Health.

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From 1994 to 2007, Janice Raymond was the co-executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.

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Janice Raymond is currently on the board of directors of CATW.

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Janice Raymond is a former member of the Sisters of Mercy.

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Janice Raymond left the convent and became open about her lesbianism.

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In 2007, Janice Raymond received the "International Woman Award, 2007" from the Zero Tolerance Trust, in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Janice Raymond has been the recipient of grants from the US Department of State, the US National Institute of Justice, the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Norwegian Organization for Research and Development, and UNESCO.

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Janice Raymond's is the most probing and honorable discussion of female friendships we have.

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In 1979, Janice Raymond published a book on transsexualism called The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.