biography
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Rossi, Alice S
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née Schaerr
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Sociologist and educator, born in New York City, New York, USA. A Columbia University PhD, she pursued an academic career, mostly at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1974–91). She became a leading feminist scholar as the writer and editor of works on family, kinship, sex, and gender, and is particularly noted for her studies of personality development at all ages, what sociologists refer to as ‘life-course’ analyses. Her works include The Feminist Papers (1973), Gender and the Life Course (1985), and Of Human Bonding (co-written, 1990). |
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