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Kathleen B. Jones, born in Brooklyn, New York, moved to California in 1980. She teaches Women's Studies at San Diego State University and has published widely on feminism and the politics of the women's movement in both scholarly and popular journals. Most recently, she has been teaching creative non-fiction writing workshops at the university and in the community. Her academic works include Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women, (Routledge, 1993), The Political Interests of Gender, (Sage, 1988), edited with Anna G. Jónasdóttir and Women Transforming Politics (New York University Press, 1997) edited with Cathy Cohen and Joan Tronto. She also co-edits the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her most recent book is a memoir, Living Between Danger and Love, (Rutgers University Press, 2000). She is the recipient of several grants from the National Endowment or the Humanities, hosts Profiles, a San Diego City Access Channel 24 Cable TV series on local authors, and was awarded a writers' grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center in winter, 2001 and 2002.