21 Facts About Judith Lorber

Judith Lorber was born on November 28,1931 and is professor emerita of sociology and women's studies at The CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Judith Lorber is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has played a vital role in the formation and transformation of gender studies.

Judith Lorber has more recently called for a de-gendering of the social world.

Judith Lorber was born in Brooklyn New York, where she attended public elementary and high school.

Judith Lorber started developing and teaching courses in women's studies in 1972, and taught at Fordham University in the Bronx and at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center until she retired from teaching in 1995.

Judith Lorber co-authored Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives with Lisa Jean Moore.

Judith Lorber's work on women physicians, which culminated in Women Physicians: Careers, Status, and Power, published in 1984, as well as a series of papers published from 1981 to 1987, was a logical combination of her feminism and medical sociology.

Judith Lorber thus expanded the analysis of the informal structure of the medical profession, which had been applied only to men physicians, to women, who were, at that point, entering medical school in large numbers.

Judith Lorber applied a feminist analysis to the growing use of IVF in male infertility, where the woman is fertile but the man isn't.

Judith Lorber co-edited the Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies, published by Sage UK in 2006 with Mary Evans and Kathy Davis.

Judith Lorber has gone so far as to argue that we should imagine a social world that is not organized by gender.

Judith Lorber uses the example of basketball to confirm her belief.

Judith Lorber compares competitive sports to big businesses and therefore argues that they are no longer just a social construct but an economic, political, and ideological issue developed by those who define and profit from competitive sports.

Judith Lorber describes how this has influenced young people; for example we see far more young men and boys playing computer games and getting involved in computer clubs.

Judith Lorber describes the importance of the mobility, literally and figuratively, given to women by driving.

Judith Lorber describes the sense of liberation felt by many women when they first experienced driving, while participating in First World War efforts.

Judith Lorber finalizes her arguments discussing the paradoxes of human nature.

Judith Lorber argues that the problem of basing knowledge on presumptions of gender differences reaffirms the categorization of the 'male' versus 'female'.

Judith Lorber was guest professor at Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland, in 1996.

Judith Lorber was invited and has given conference presentations in almost every state in the US, and she has had two Eastern Sociological Society Lectureships and the Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in 1992.

Judith Lorber was invited to present her work at international sociology and women's studies conferences in China, Africa, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Israel, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, and Switzerland.