British journalist and columnist
Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British writer. She is the author of three books on gender and relationships [1] and writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph.[2] She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's A Point Of View and presents a podcast on culture called Hyped!, with the historian Tom Stammers.
Early life and education
Strimpel grew up in a small town in New England.[3] She attended Bedales School, then studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge.[4], where she completed an MPhil in Gender Studies. She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s.[5]
In November 2020, she became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969.[5]
Career
Author
Strimpel is the author of What the Hell is He Thinking?: All the Questions You've Ever Asked About Men Answered,[6][7] which was published in July 2010. It is aimed at providing an insight into men's thinking, researched by Strimpel interviewing men. Her second book, The Man Diet: One Woman's Quest to End Bad Romance was published on 22 December 2011.[8][7] Both books received positive reviews from critics.[9][10][11]
Strimpel is the author of an academic book, Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of 'the Single', which charts the emergence of the dating industry in Britain in the final decades of the 20th century against the backdrop of rapidly changing gender politics, class and sexuality.[12]
Journalist
From 2006, Strimpel was the author of the Girl about town column in The London Paper,[13] a now-defunct free daily newspaper. From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM, a business-orientated London daily newspaper.[14] She has written on relations between men and women for Elle,[15] the Sunday Times Style magazine,[13] and HuffPost.[16] She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle,[17] and writes for The Spectator,[18] and UnHerd.[19]
She writes a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph.[2][20]
Strimpel has appeared on radio and television as a commentator to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity.[21][22][23] Her piece in The Sunday Telegraph on the #MeToo movement[24] led to appearances on the BBC[25] and Al Jazeera[26] to discuss the matter. She appears frequently on BBC Radio 4's A Point of View.[27][28][29] and has presented BBC Radio 4's Analysis episodes.[30][31] She appeared in the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age in 2018 to discuss online dating apps.[32][33] At the beginning of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Strimpel argued on Bari Weiss’ blog for a hawkish response by NATO.[34]
