Zillah Eisenstein | |
|---|---|
 Eisenstein in 2016 | |
| Years active | 1972-present |
| Title | Emerita Professor of Politics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Ohio University University of Massachusetts |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Ithaca College |
Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American political theorist and gender studies scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.[1] Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politics; and construction of gender,[1] Eisenstein is the author of twelve books and editor of the 1978 collection Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, which published the Combahee River Collective statement.[2]
Eisenstein received her B.A. in Political Science from Ohio University in 1968 and her M.A. and Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Massachusetts.[3][4] She began teaching at Ithaca College in 1973 and was tenured in 1978.[4] Her papers (1966 to 2011) are held in the Feminist Theory Archives of Brown University's Pembroke Center in Providence, Rhode Island.[5]
Eisenstein writes an opinion column for Al Jazeera.[6]
In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]
