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Penny A. Weiss is professor at Saint Louis University known for her work on feminist issues.

Education and career

Weiss has a B.A. from the University of South Florida (1976), an M.A. (1979) and a Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Notre Dame. Starting in 1985 she was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, and in 1987 she moved to Purdue University where she remained until 2008. While at Purdue, Weiss spoke out about unequal treatment of women faculty at the university, and the challenges faced by female faculty at Purdue. In 2008 she became a professor at Saint Louis University, where she was chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies from 2008 until 2012.

Selected publications

• Sowaal, Alice; Weiss, Penny A., eds. (2016). Feminist interpretations of Mary Astell. University Park, Pennsylvania. ISBN 978-0-271-07760-4. OCLC 949276358.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Weiss, Penny A. (9 November 2015). Canon Fodder : Historical Women Political Thinkers. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-06280-8. OCLC 1256437921.
• Weiss, Penny A. (1993-10-01). Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9491-3.
• Weiss, Penny A.; Friedman, Marilyn (1995). Feminism and Community. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-277-8.
• Weiss, Penny A. (14 May 2021). Feminist reflections on childhood ahistory and a call to action. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-1868-5. OCLC 1252063676.

References

1. "Female Purdue professors talk of bias there". The Courier-Journal. 1988-11-13. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
2. Schuckel, Kathy (1988-11-12). "Weak support, low salary figures irk women profs". Journal and Courier. pp. , . Retrieved 2022-11-24.
3. "Penny Weiss, Ph.D." www.slu.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
4. Reviews for Feminist interpretations of Mary Astell
   • Kujawa-Holbrook, Sheryl A. (2020). "Review of Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell". Anglican and Episcopal History. 89 (4): 468–470. ISSN 0896-8039. JSTOR 26973688.
   • Dussinger, John A. (Spring 2019). "Feminist Interpretations of Mary Astell". The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats; University Park. Vol. 51, no. 2. pp. 195–196 – via ProQuest.
5. Review of Canon Fodder
   • Locke, Jill (2010). Weiss, Penny A. (ed.). "FOREMOTHERS". The Review of Politics. 72 (4): 755–758. doi:10.1017/S003467051000077X. ISSN 0034-6705. JSTOR 40961163.
   • Green, Karen; Department of Philosophy, Florida State University (2010). "Canon Fodder: Historical Women Political Thinkers". Social Theory and Practice. 36 (2): 349–355. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract201036217. ISSN 0037-802X.
6. Reviews for Gendered Community
   • Wingrove, Elizabeth (1997). "Gendered Community: Rousseau, Sex, and Politics". Women & Politics; New York. Vol. 17, no. 1. pp. 114–115 – via ProQuest.
   • John, H.J. (April 1994). "Philosophy -- Gendered community: Rousseau, sex, and politics by Penny A. Weiss". Choice; Middletown. Vol. 31, no. 8. p. 1310 – via ProQuest.
7. Reviews for Feminism and Community
   • Locke, Jill (2022). "Feminist Reflections on Childhood: A History and Call to Action. By Penny A. Weiss. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2021. 294p. $110.50 cloth, $34.95 paper". Perspectives on Politics. 20 (1): 310–312. doi:10.1017/S1537592721003467. ISSN 1537-5927. S2CID 247379448.

External links

• Penny A. Weiss publications indexed by Google Scholar

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