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Elinor Burkett
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Journalism, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Author of The Right Women: A Journey Through the Heart of Conservative America and others.

Primary Contributions (2)
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Feminism, the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests. Throughout most of Western history,…
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Publications (2)
So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places
So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places (March 2005)
By Elinor Burkett
At a time when Americans were so riveted by questions about their place in a newly hostile world and were swearing off air travel, Elinor Burkett did not just take a trip - she took a headlong dive into enemy territories.\n Her yearlong odyssey began with her assignment as a Fulbright Professor teaching journalism in Kyrgyzstan, a faded fragment of Soviet might in the heart of Central Asia - a place of dilapidated apartments, bizarre food, and demoralized citizens clinging to the safety...
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The Right Women: A Journey Through the Heart of Conservative America
The Right Women: A Journey Through the Heart of Conservative America (March 1999)
By Elinor Burkett
Despite feminist predictions that women's liberation would forge a national sisterhood steeped in common values and goals, today's most outspoken voices come from women who ironically embody the ideal of independence even as they denounce the principles of "old" feminism. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, Elinor Burkett takes readers into the lives, minds, and hearts of conservative women, from prominent politicians like Elizabeth Dole to gun-toting militiawomen. Neither an attack on...
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