Susan J. Douglas

Susan J. Douglas

Susan Jeanne Douglas (* 1950 ) is an American media scientist who is particularly concerned with gender issues and is active as a public intellectual . She currently holds a professorship at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , where she is the Dean of the Faculty of Communication Studies.

Douglas is married and has one daughter.

Douglas received his PhD in American Civilization from Brown University in 1979 and initially taught at Hampshire College .

She has appeared in The Nation , The Village Voice , Ms., and the Washington Post , among others . She has a monthly column in In These Times .

Works

• Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work Is Done (2010)
• The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women, (with Meredith Michaels, 2005)
• Listening In: Radio And The American Imagination (1999)
• Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (1994)
• Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, 1989)

Web links

• Website