| LC control no. | n 82062625 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Russell, Diana E. H. |
| Variant(s) | Russell, D. E. H. (Diana E. H.) Russell, Diana (Diana E. H.) |
| Associated country | South Africa United States |
| Associated place | Great Britain England |
| Located | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1938-11-06 |
| Death date | 2020-07-28 |
| Place of birth | Cape Town (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Oakland (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Women's studies Women--Violence against Women--Crimes against Pornography--Social aspects Social psychology |
| Affiliation | Mills College Harvard University Princeton University London School of Economics and Political Science University of Cape Town Liberal Party of South Africa African Resistance Movement Women Against Sexist Violence in Pornography and Media |
| Profession or occupation | Sociologists Sociology teachers Social psychologists Feminists |
| Found in | Her Rebellion, revolution, and armed force, 1974. Crimes against women, 1984, c1976: CIP t.p. (Diana E.H. Russell) data sh. (b. Nov. 6, 1938) New York Times (online), August 9, 2020, Diana Russell, who studied violence against women, dies at 81, viewed August 9, 2020 (Diana E.H. Russell, feminist activist and scholar who popularized the term "femicide" to refer to misogynist killing of women, died July 28 in Oakland, Calif.; born Nov. 6, 1938 in Cape Town; bachelor's in psychology 1958 (age 19), University of Cape Town; studied social science and administration at London School of Economics, best student in class of 1961; joined the Liberal Party, and, following arrest during a peaceful protest, the African Resistance Movement; left for Harvard, master's in 1967 and doctorate in 1970, both in social psychology; research associate at Princeton; Dr. Russell married psychologist Paul Ekman in 1968 (divorced 3 years later), took a teaching position at Mills College, Oakland, to be near him; she stayed at Mills for 22 years as a professor of sociology, taught courses on women and sexism and helped develop a major in women's studies; authored Against pornography : the evidence of harm (1994); founding member of Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media; lived in later years in a collective in Berkeley; her twin brother David, Anglican bishop and champion of the poor in South Africa, died in 2014) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 98004704 |
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