Verta A. Taylor

Verta Taylor is Professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty member in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of 15 books and edited volumes and over 100 scholarly articles. Her books include Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help and Postpartum Depression, coauthor of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, and Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s, co-editor of The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement, and eight editions of Feminist Frontiers.