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Bettina Aptheker

Bettina Aptheker   
Bettina Aptheker
    Title:  Professor of Feminist Studies and History
    Type:  Core Faculty
    Email:  bettinaf@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-2116 Office
(831) 459-1925 Fax
    Office:  Humanities I 340
    Office Hours:  Fall 09: Wednesday 2:30-4:00 PM

Courses Taught 
80A. Feminism and Social Justice
139. African American Womens History
150. Women's Culture
194I. Feminist Oral History and Memoir
203. Feminist Pedagogies

Research Focus 
Women's history, feminist oral history and memoir, feminist pedagogy, African American women's history, queer studies, feminist Jewish studies, feminist critical race studies

Education History 
Ph.D. History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

Selected Publications 

"Afterword," to Jan Willis, Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist, One Woman's Spiritual Journey, Wisdom Publications, 2008, pp. 355-357.

"Cultural Identity and Multicultural Complexity," A review essay of The Colors of Jews: Radical Politics and Radical Diasporism by Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz in Women's Review of Books, May/June 2008,
Vol. 25, Issue 3, pp. 23-25.

"Keeping the Communist Party Straight, 1940s-1980s," New Politics, Summer 2008, Vol.XII, No. 1, pp.22-27.

"Toni Cade Bambara: A Political Life of the Spirit," in Linda J. Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall, editors, Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, Temple University Press, 2008. pp. 226-235.

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel, Jackson, TN: Seal Press, 2006.

"Shirley Graham Du Bois," in Notable American Women: A biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century, Susan Ware, ed., Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004.

"Red Feminism: A Personal and Historical Reflection," Science & Society, Winter 2003 Vol. 66, No 4, pp. 519-526.

The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis, 1976; second edition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Life, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.