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Linda Gordon is professor of history and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Her early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. In her later books, she explored other genres of history.
Linda Gordon is an American feminist and historian. She lives in New York City and in Madison, Wisconsin. She won the Marfield Prize and the WILLA Literary Award in Historical Nonfiction for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, and the Antonovych Prize for Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine (SUNY Press, 1983).
Linda Gordon was born on 12 April 1953 in Hamilton Air Force Base, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Angels' Wild Women (1971), Fugitive Lovers (1975) and The Last American Hobo (1967).
Biography. Linda Gordon was born in Chicago but considers Portland, Oregon, her home town. Her early ambition was to become a professional dancer but when she found she wasn’t good enough, she packed that in and went to college at Swarthmore.
Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of the now-classic history of birth control in America, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of th...
Aug 25, 2014 · In advance of Labor Day, NYU Stories checked in with Linda Gordon to talk about changing notions of women’s work and the connections between disparities in gender and class. Why did you think it was important to emphasize the role of feminism in labor reform?
Oct 11, 2010 · We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to...
Mar 26, 2014 · Linda Gordon is a professor of history and a University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Her early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues.
Aug 16, 2017 · Fellow, History, New York University Linda Gordon is a professor of history and a University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Her early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues.
Jun 6, 2024 · Professor Linda Gordon is Florence Kelley Professor of History and University Professor of Humanities at NYU, teaching courses on historical methods, gender, comparative social movements, imperialism and the 20th-century US.
