Elisabeth Jay Friedman

Elisabeth Jay Friedman is Chair and Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. In addition to Interpreting the Internet, she is also the author of Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996 (Penn State Press, 2000), and the co-author of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences (SUNY Press, 2005). She has also published articles on transnational women's organizing, women's rights in Latin America, and same-sex marriage. Friedman is currently editing the collection “Contesting the Transformation: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Left,” which brings together 15 scholars from North and South America to explore to what extent the left-leaning governments of the “Pink Tide” have promoted the rights of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and engaged feminist and queer movements. Her work can be found here.