Elisabeth Jay Friedman

Elisabeth Jay Friedman was awarded her BA by Barnard College (1988) and her MA/PhD by Stanford University (1997). She is the author of Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996 (Penn State Press, 2000), the co-author of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences (SUNY Press, 2005) and the author of Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America (University of California Press, 2016). She has published articles on transnational women's organizing, women's rights in Latin America, same-sex marriage, and intergenerational feminism.

Friedman is also the editor of the collection Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide (Duke University Press, 2019), available in Spanish as: Género, sexualidad e izquierdas latinoamericanas: El reclamo de derechos durante la marea rosa (CLACSO 2020).

• Gender and politics
• Latin American feminist and queer movements
• Social and political meaning of the internet

• Department Chair, Politics
• Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Feminist Journal of Politics
• Co-Coordinator, USF Global Feminist Forum

• BA, Barnard College
• MA/PhD, Stanford University

• University of San Francisco College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Scholar Award for Achievement in Research, 2020

• University of San Francisco Sarlo Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2010

• Friedman, Elisabeth Jay, ed. (2019) Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Spanish translation: Género, Sexualidad y izquierdas latinoamericanas: El reclamo de derechos durante la marea rosa. CLACSO, 2020.

• Friedman, Elisabeth Jay. (2016) Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

• Friedman, Elisabeth Jay. (2005) Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences New York: SUNY Press.

• Friedman, Elisabeth J. (2000) Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996. Penn.: Penn State Press.