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Dr. Laura Sjoberg is an author (with Caron Gentry) of Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics (Zed Books 2007). Laura is also the author of Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq, published by Rowman and Littlefield. The book was written when she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Women and Public Policy Program. She is Assistant Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
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Dr. '''Laura Sjoberg''' is a [[Wikipedia:Feminism|feminist]] author and Pensacola native whose works include ''Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics'' and ''Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq''. She is an assistant professor at the [[Wikipedia:Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]] and co-founded the [http://www.bostondebate.org/ Boston Debate League] in 2004.
  
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==Published works==
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*''Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq''. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.
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*"Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism." ''International Studies Quarterly'', 2006. 50(4):889-910.
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*"Gendered Torture? Feminist Insights into Abu Ghraib and Gender in the 21st Century." ''International Feminist Journal'', 2007. IFJP9(1):82-101.
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*"Gender and Personal Pedagogy." ''International Studies Perspectives'', 2007. 8(3):336-339.
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*''Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics''. Caron Gentry, co-author. London: Zed Books, 2007.
  
Dr. Sjoberg's work contributes to Feminist International relations theory and its studies of international security and war. She has made presentations at the International Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, the National Women's Studies Association, Women in International Security, and the Boston Consortium for Gender, Security and Human Rights.
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[[Category:Authors|Sjoberg, Laura]] [[Category:Feminists|Sjoberg, Laura]] [[Category:Pensacola High School graduates|Sjoberg, Laura]]
 
 
She has published in The International Feminist Journal of Politics and International Politics, among other journals.
 
 
 
 
 
With Andrew Brokos, she runs the Boston Debate League, an Urban debate league, established to bring the educational and social benefits of policy debate to urban high schools in the greater Boston area.
 
 
 
 
 
[http://www.laurasjoberg.com LauraSjoberg.com]
 
 
 
[http://www.isanet.org International Studies Association]
 
 
 
[http://www.harvard.edu Harvard University]
 

Latest revision as of 16:40, 14 March 2008

Dr. Laura Sjoberg is a feminist author and Pensacola native whose works include Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics and Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq. She is an assistant professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and co-founded the Boston Debate League in 2004.

Published works[edit]

  • Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.
  • "Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism." International Studies Quarterly, 2006. 50(4):889-910.
  • "Gendered Torture? Feminist Insights into Abu Ghraib and Gender in the 21st Century." International Feminist Journal, 2007. IFJP9(1):82-101.
  • "Gender and Personal Pedagogy." International Studies Perspectives, 2007. 8(3):336-339.
  • Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics. Caron Gentry, co-author. London: Zed Books, 2007.