Interview with Adrienne Asch
Global Feminisms Project
2006-06-05
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Abstract
Adrienne Asch is the Edward and Robin Millstein Professor of Bioethics at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both at Yeshiva University in New York. Asch received a BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College, an MS in Social Work and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Columbia University. Much of her scholarship examines issues of bio-ethics, reproduction, and disability. A long-time member of the Society for Disability Studies, she served as its president from 1996 to 1998. In 1997, she was named Blind Educator of the Year by the National Federation of the Blind, and in 2001, she was awarded an honorary degree from Swarthmore College. Asch has been a member of the board of directors of the American Society for Bioethics in Humanities and served on the Clinton Task Force on Healthcare Reform and the Ethnical, Legal, and Social Implications Policy Planning Group of the National Human Genome Research Institute. She has also served on the board of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters and is editor with Eric Parens of Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights, and a co-editor of The Double-Edge Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society. She is currently working on a book on assisted reproduction.Series/Report no.
Global Feminisms U. S. Site Interview
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Global, Feminism, Feminists, Intersectionality, Cross-cultural, United States, American Feminists, U.S. Feminists
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The Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLAND
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