Andrea Friedman is an American historian of gender and sexuality with a focus on the modern United States. She is a professor in the

Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis is home to the College of Arts and Sciences and corresponding graduate programs across its many departments. The current Dean of the Faculty is Feng Sheng Hu, the Lucille P. Markey Distingui ...

. Her teaching courses includes US women's and

gender history Gender history is a sub-field of history and gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender. It is in many ways, an outgrowth of women's history. The discipline considers in what ways historical events and periodization im ...

, the

history of sexuality ''The History of Sexuality'' () is a four-volume study of sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate spher ...

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 ...

politics, and

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...

and sexuality studies.

Life

Friedman earned a B.A. (1978) in political science and M.A. (1985) in history from

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

. She completed a Ph.D. (1995) in history at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

. Her 1995 dissertation was titled, ''Prurient Interests: Anti-obscenity Campaigns in New York City, 1909-1945''. Friedman was a lecturer in history at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

from 1994 to 1996. In 1996, she joined

as an assistant professor of history and women, gender, and sexuality studies. Friedman was promoted to associate professor in 2004 and professor in July 2016. She is the director of the M.A. in women, gender, and sexuality studies and the M.A./J.D. programs director. Friedman is a professor emeritus in the department of history. In 2012, Friedman won the James M. Holobaugh Award for service to the LGBTQIA community.

Selected works

* * Reviews of ''Citizenship in Cold War America'': * * * *

References

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