Biography
R. Amy Elman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9548-0366 is a Professor of Political Science and the William Weber Chair of Social Science at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, USA. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including two Fulbright grants, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a grant from the Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Hebrew University. She has worked on behalf of women’s rights and against antisemitism domestically and within Europe for over three decades. She has lectured and published widely on the response of states and the European Union to issues of citizenship, migration, violence against women, sex discrimination, and antisemitism. She has published four books: Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Comparing Sweden and the United States (Berghahn Books, 1996), Sexual Politics and the European Union (Berghahn Books, 1996), Sexual Equality in an Integrated Europe (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007), and The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
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Elman, R. Amy (2021) "The Life of a Lesbian Feminist Activist and Professor. Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life by Sheila Jeffreys," Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.23860/dignity.2021.06.01.08
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