Institutions Vassar College Alma mater Harvard University | Name Mary Shanley | |
Education Wellesley College, Harvard University Books Feminism - Marriage - and the L, Just Marriage, Making Babies - Making F, Women's Rights - Feminism, Just Marriage New Dem | ||
Main interests Feminist legal scholar | ||
Mary Lyndon Shanley (born 1944) is a feminist legal scholar specializing in issues of the American family and reproductive technologies. Her book Just Marriage weighed into the controversy around gay marriage with a historical and political science perspective. She has written on the idea of the "ethic of care" in US political science.
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Education
Shanley received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Masters and Doctoral degrees in political science from Harvard University.
Career
She is the Margaret Stiles Halleck Professor of Political Science at Vassar College and lives in Poughkeepsie, NY where she also teaches a writing course to women in the local jail.
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