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Myriam Miedzianogora
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupations
  • Professor
  • Author
Websitemyriammiedzian.com

Myriam Miedzian, FORMERLY MIEDZIANOGORA*, *is a philosopher, author,[1] and social activist. She is the founder of non-profit organizations, such as Monumental Women and Prepare Tomorrow's Parents.[2][3]

Education

Miedzian holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University and a Master's in Clinical Social Work from Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.

Career

Miedzian’s career as a philosophy professor included teaching as Rutgers University, Barnard College, and Brooklyn College.[4]

Miedzian and her husband, Gary Ferdman, founded Monumental Women,[5] a non-profit organization dedicated to placing the first statue honoring women in New York City's Central Park.[6][7] Its efforts were successful and the statue, which honors Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was unveiled, after seven years, in August 2020.[8]

Miedzian is also a founding director of Prepare Tomorrow's Parents, a non-profit organization that works to promote child-rearing education in public schools.[9]

Miedzian has been a guest speaker on over 300 TV and radio programs, and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. She is an accomplished writer, and her articles, Op-Eds, and blogs have been featured in a number of publications. Miedzian has also delivered lectures on reducing violence through changes in the socialization of boys at international events and academic institutions, including the International Psychohistory Conferences and the Mississuaga/Dufferin-Peel Lecture, Ontario, Canada.[10][11]

Bibliography

  • Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence (Doubleday 1991, Anchor 1992, revised edition Lantern Books 2002)[12]
  • Generations: A Century of Women Speak About Their Lives *co-authored with daughter Alisa Malinovich. (Grove Atlantic 1995, Kindle 2013)
  • He Walked Through Walls: A Twentieth Century Tale of Survival (Lantern Books, 2009)

Anthologies

  • "Rethinking Peace" (Lynne Rienner, 1994)
  • "Ending The Cycle of Violence" (Sage, 1994)
  • "Transforming a Rape Culture" (Milkweed, 2004)
  • "Violence and Gender" (Prentice Hall, 2004)[13][14]
  • "Motherhood and Feminism" (Seal Press, 2010)
  • "New Girl Order: Are Men in Decline?" (Cato Unbound, 2012)[15]
  • "Transforming Terror" (University of California, 2011)
  • "Marxism, Revolution, and Utopia Vol. 6" (University of California, 2014)[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Myriam Miedzian: books, biography, latest update". Amazon.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  2. ^ "ABOUT PREPARE TOMORROW'S PARENTS". www.preparetomorrowsparents.org. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Myriam Miedzian Quotes -". OpenQuotes. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Myriam Miedzian". Cato Unbound. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Monumental Women". monumentalwomen.org. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Time to 'Remember the Ladies' -- in Central Park". HuffPost. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Women's Rights Pioneers Monument". Wikipedia. 15 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  8. ^ Moore, Chadwick (13 July 2015). "Fighting to Bring Women in History to Central Park". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  9. ^ Lipsyte, Robert (4 August 1991). "ROBERT LIPSYTE; The Manly Art Of Self-Delusion". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Myriam Miedzian". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  11. ^ "myriam-miedzian". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Reviews : Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the link between masculinity and violence Myriam Miedzian Virago, 1992; pp 298, £6.99 pbk". journals.sagepub.com. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Gender Violence, 2nd Edition". NYU Press. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  14. ^ "Violence and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Reader 1st Edition". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  15. ^ "New Girl Order: Are Men in Decline?". Cato Unbound. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  16. ^ "Marxism, Revolution, Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 6". www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  17. ^ "Myriam Miedzian Bio - Herbert Marcuse Official Website". www.marcuse.org. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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