Kathleen Barry
Kathleen Barry, sociologist and feminist activist, is professor emerita of Penn State University. Her first book, Female Sexual Slavery (1979), launched a global movement against traffic in women. She wrote Prostitution of Sexuality (1995), and her latest book, Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldier and Ourselves, was published in 2011.
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Abolishing Prostitution: A Feminist Human Rights Treaty
The author, long active in global human rights, argues that the time is ripe for a UN treaty to bolster ongoing efforts to end prostitution. More »
Male Bonding—Military Massacres By The Book
The author of "Unmaking War, Remaking Men" writes that the behavior in Afghanistan of alleged killer Robert Bales was anything but unexpected. More »
Sexual Politics at Penn State—An Inside Look
The author, professor emerita of Penn State University, describes the culture that produced the recent scandal—and suggests a path to a needed focus on the victims of such abuse. More »
How War Trounces Women's Rights
In her new book "Unmaking War, Remaking Men," feminist sociologist Kathleen Barry argues that by demanding a violent and aggressive masculinity—literally making men expendable—war precludes equality for women. More »
