Ivy George

Dr. Ivy George teaches sociology at Gordon College, in Massachusetts. She was trained at the University of Madras, Bryn Mawr, Brandeis and Harvard. She has written two books on child labour, (From Child Labour to Child Work, 1990) and cross-cultural comparisons of romance and marriage (An Uncommon Correspondence – East West Conversations on Friendship, Intimacy and Love, 1998, co-authored with Margaret Masson). She has published articles and contributed book chapters and lectured on a wide variety of crucially important topics including masculinity, feminism, religion, social stratification, and international adoptions.

Excerpts from her memoir Blind Sight – When Freedom Was Not Enough (2026) have been published in The Journal of Expressive Writing (2025), Braided Way (2025) and The Other Side of Hope (2025).