About Shira Tarrant

Shira Tarrant’s experience combines academia with community work and pop culture publishing. Her books include When Sex Became Gender (Routledge), Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power (Routledge), and Men and Feminism (Seal Press). Her next project is the co-edited anthology, Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style (SUNY Press, 2010).

Tarrant’s articles have appeared in academic and mainstream publications including Bitch magazine, off our backs, the UCLA Historical Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Intercultural Studies, Voice Male, Barnard College’s Scholar & Feminist Online, Genre magazine, and The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism.

A frequent public speaker, Shira Tarrant appeared at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Pitzer College, California State University, Fullerton, and UCLA, as well as venues like Bluestocking Bookstore and the KGB Bar Nonfiction Series in New York City. Her comments have been featured on radio, internet, and in print media, and she has presented papers at a variety of professional conferences.

Shira Tarrant has a PhD in political science from UCLA. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches courses on popular culture, masculinity, economy, and feminist theory.

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