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Linda Gordon taught for seventeen years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is now a professor of history at New York University. She has specialized in examining the historical roots of contemporary social policy debates, particularly as they concern gender and family issues, and during the Clinton administration served on the Advisory Council on Violence against Women of the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. Her 1988 book, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The History and Politics of Family Violence, which won the Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women’s history and was reprinted in 2002 by the University of Illinois Press, looks at the history of policies toward child abuse and violence against women. Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (1994) won the Berkshire Prize and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999) won the Bancroft Prize for the best book in U.S. history and the Beveridge Prize for the best book on the history of the Americas. Her current project is a biography of Dorothea Lange. 19.BM.447-448/Gord 9/25/02, 10:46 AM 447 ...

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