Judith Lorber (born 1931) is an American sociologist and professor emerita at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, described as a foundational theorist of the social construction of gender difference who has played a central role in shaping and reshaping gender studies and has more recently called for a de-gendering of the social world. Her book Paradoxes of Gender (1994) argues that gender operates as a major social institution organizing nearly every area of social life, and she received the Jessie Bernard Award in 1996 for scholarship enlarging sociologys view of womens role in society.
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Judith Lorber was born in Brooklyn New York, where she attended public elementary and high school.
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birth_date = 28 November 1931
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She graduated from Queens College, City University of New York in 1952, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University in 1971.
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She developed and taught some of the first courses in the sociology of gender, women's studies, and feminist theory at Brooklyn College and the graduate school, where she was the first coordinator of the women's studies certificate program in 1988-1991.
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She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has played a vital role in the formation and transformation of gender studies.
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