Background
Jacquelyn S. Litt was born on May 5, 1958, in New York City, New York, United States.
Jacquelyn Litt
300 Pulteney St, Geneva, NY 14456, United States
William Smith College where Jacquelyn Litt received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
The University of Pennsylvania where Jacquelyn Litt received her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
300 Pulteney St, Geneva, NY 14456, United States
William Smith College where Jacquelyn Litt received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
The University of Pennsylvania where Jacquelyn Litt received her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
(The book Medicalized Motherhood is enriched with many nar...)
The book Medicalized Motherhood is enriched with many narratives from the mothers themselves. Both the women's voices and Litt's acute sociological research bring to light how medicalized motherhood, while not the single cause of difference and inequality among the women, was a site where they were produced.
https://www.amazon.com/Medicalized-Motherhood-Perspectives-African-American-Jewish/dp/0813527821
2000
(Why are women such prominent workers in the global market...)
Why are women such prominent workers in the global marketplace? Why do so many perform jobs that involve carework? What political forces have made these women key participants in globalization? What are the consequences for the women themselves, for their families, and for societies and international relations in general? This book offers a provocative examination of globalization, examining the lives of the women at the center of these new global dynamics. Arguing that society is facing multiple crises of care, the authors develop a new framework for understanding the interplay of globalization, gender, and carework.
https://www.amazon.com/Global-Dimensions-Gender-Carework-Zimmerman/dp/0804753237/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Global+Dimensions+of+Gender+and+Carework&qid=1595430864&s=books&sr=1-1
2006
Jacquelyn S. Litt was born on May 5, 1958, in New York City, New York, United States.
Jacquelyn Litt began her studies at William Smith College which is now the part of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. There she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1980. She continued her studies at the University of Pennsylvania where she obtained a Master of Arts degree in sociology in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree also in sociology in 1988.
Jacquelyn Litt joined Rutgers University in 2010 to serve as Dean of Douglass Residential College and the Douglass Campus and professor in women's and gender studies and sociology. She has a distinguished record of scholarship, teaching, and administrative service that focuses on women's issues. She came to Rutgers from the University of Missouri where she was the founding chair of women's and gender studies, working there from 2004. Prior to her tenure at Missouri, Litt directed women's studies programs at Iowa State University from 1995 and Allegheny College where she worked as an assistant professor of sociology in 1987-1995. She was also a guest lecturer at educational institutions, including Lancaster University, where she taught in 2000.
Litt is also known as the author. Her book Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women was published in 2000. She co-authored the 2006 Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. She contributed to books, including Private Risks and Public Dangers (1992), and published her articles and reviews in periodicals, including Race, Gender, and Class, Sociological Quarterly, Health Care for Women International, Gender and Society, Research in the Sociology of Health Care, and Journal of Consumer Affairs. She is currently writing a book, Women of Katrina: Crossing Borders, Weaving Networks, and Taking Care which documents the strategies of survival women took to disaster recovery in the Katrina Diaspora.
It's also worth noting, that, as the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant at the University of Missouri, Dr. Litt was responsible for establishing practices to promote gender equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. She is a national expert on faculty mentoring and consults on mentoring program development around the country. Besides, she acted as a consultant to the North Central Center for Rural Development.
Jacquelyn Litt is known as an outstanding sociologist, educator and author. She won numerous teaching awards, including the 1990 award from the William T. Grant Foundation, the Distinguished Faculty Award from the American Association of University Women-Iowa Chapter for her distinguished contribution toward gender equity in education, and Iowa State's Early Excellence in Teaching and Master Teacher in Multicultural Education awards. The American Sociological Association awarded Dr. Litt with the Outstanding Achievement in Scholarship Award on race, class and gender for her book Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women. In 1985, she became a Woodrow Wilson fellow. Her recent award is the 2020 Woman as Agent of Change Award.
(Why are women such prominent workers in the global market...)
2006(The book Medicalized Motherhood is enriched with many nar...)
2000Litt's primary research is on motherhood, carework, and inequality.
Jacquelyn Litt was vice president of the Children with Dyslexia Scholarship Fund and a member of the board of directors of "We Can" Learning Community at Iowa State University.
