Rosalind Pollack Petchesky (born August 16, 1942) is an American political scientist, and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York.[1] She is the founder of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRAG).[2]
Early life and education
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky was born in Bay City, Texas to Roberta Friedman and Simon Pollack.[3]
Petchesky is known for incorporating differing theoretical frameworks, including ethics, political philosophy, history, political science, and others, into the study of reproductive rights.[4]
From 1972 to 1987 she was Professor of Political and Social Theory at Ramapo College of New Jersey. In 1987 she was hired as Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of Women's Studies at Hunter College in New York. Petchesky lectures widely and is the author/editor of many professional articles and numerous books.[3]
Petchesky is on the international advisory board of Signs,[5] an international journal in women's and gender studies.
Activism
Petchesky was the oldest person arrested at Grand Central Terminal, October 27, 2023, in a protest calling for a ceasefire in the 2023 Gaza conflict. She organized a group of more than 30 Jewish seniors to participate.[6] She was also among a group of 18 Jewish elder women who chained themselves to the White House front gate prior to the annual Hanukkah party.[7]
Petchesky, Rosalind P. (1984). "Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom". Boston: Northeastern University Press: 412. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) The first edition was winner of the American Historical Association's 1984 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History. Second revised edition: 1990.
Petchesky, Rosalind P. (1985), "Abortion in the 1980's: feminist morality and women's health", in Lewin, Ellen; Olesen, Virginia (eds.), Women, Health, and Healing: Toward a New Perspective, New York: Tavistock Publications
Petchesky, Rosalind P. (2000), "Sexual rights: inventing a concept, mapping an international practice", in Parker, Richard G.; Barbosa, Regina M.; Aggleton, Peter (eds.), Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and power, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 81–103, ISBN9780520218383. Preview.
Petchesky, Rosalind P. (1997), "Spiraling discourses of reproductive and sexual rights", in Tronto, Joan C.; Cohen, Cathy J.; Jones, Kathleen B. (eds.), Women transforming politics: an alternative reader, New York: New York University Press, ISBN9780814715581. Preview.
Petchesky, Rosalind P. (September 2012). Perspectivas críticas sobre el empoderamiento [Society for International Development]. Gender and Diversity Department, Buenos Aires Chapter.
Petchesky R. P. & Alexander M. (2014). Debt. Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN9781558618541
Farmer, E., Petchesky, R. P., Sills, S., & Erakat, N. (2021). A land with a people : Palestinians and Jews confront Zionism : a collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art. Monthly Review Press. ISBN9781583679296
