Sylvia Walby
Sylvia Walby
Sylvia Walby is UNESCO Chair in Gender Research and Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. She is an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the RSA, and has an OBE for services to equal opportunities and diversity. She played a leading role in establishing the UK Women's Studies Network and centres/institutes for women's/gender studies in UK Universities. She was founding President of the European Sociological Association. Books include: The Future of Feminism (Polity July 2011), Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (Sage 2009), Gender Transformations (Routledge 1997) and Theorizing Patriarchy (Blackwell 1990).
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
United Kingdom
Email: s.walby@lancaster.ac.uk
Web: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Sylvia-Walby/
