Rosalind Coward is a journalist and writer. She is an Emeritus Professor of journalism at
Roehampton University, and a former member of the board of
Greenpeace UK (2005–12).
Education
Coward gained her first degree in English literature from
Cambridge University
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and her PhD from the Thames Polytechnic (now the
University of Greenwich
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The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along wi ...
) in 1981.
Career
She has been a columnist for ''
The Guardian
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'' since 1992 and was previously a regular contributor to ''
The Observer
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In 1993 it was acquired by Guardian Media Group Limited, and operated as a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' ...
'' and ''
Marxism Today''. She wrote a regular column for ''The Guardian''
's Comment pages between 1995 and 2004. From 2005 to 2008 she was the author of the regular "Looking After Mother" column for the Saturday ''Guardians Family section, about the problems faced by those caring for people with dementia.
Her career in journalism includes feature writing for many national newspapers and magazines including the ''
London Evening Standard
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'', ''
Daily Mail
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'', ''
Cosmopolitan
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Internationalism
* World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship
* Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community
* Cosmopolitan ...
'' and the ''
New Statesman
''The New Statesman'' (known from 1931 to 1964 as the ''New Statesman and Nation'') is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first c ...
''.
She is known for her writing on
feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
issues and in cultural
semiotics
Semiotics ( ) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as anything that communicates intentional and unintentional meaning or feelings to the sign's interpreter.
Semiosis is a ...
. Her books including ''Female Desire'' and ''Our Treacherous Hearts'' are still widely cited, as is the essay "Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels",
[Coward, Rosalind (1980). "This Novel Changes Lives": are women's novels feminist novels? A response to Rebecca O'Rourke's article "Summer Reading" ''cited as'':]
Preview.
/ref> originally written for ''Feminist Review''.
Selected bibliography
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Further reading
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* Archived ''Guardian'' columns.
References
External links
Ros Coward website
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1952 births
Academics of the University of Roehampton
British feminist writers
British journalists
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge