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Kathleen Barry

Kathleen Barry

Kathleen Barry (www.kathleenbarry.net) is the author of Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves (2011) (www.unmakingwar.net). A feminist activist and sociologist, she is professor emerita of Penn State University. Her first of five books, Female Sexual Slavery (1979), launched an international movement against trafficking in human beings.

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Sexual Politics at Penn State—An Inside Look

Sexual Politics at Penn State—An Inside Look

January 6, 2012

The author, professor emerita of Penn State University, describes the culture that produced the recent scandal—and suggests a path to a needed focus on the victims of such abuse. More »

How War Trounces Women's Rights

November 8, 2010

In her new book "Unmaking War, Remaking Men," feminist sociologist Kathleen Barry argues that by demanding a violent and aggressive masculinity—literally making men expendable—war precludes equality for women. More »