Retired professor of women and gender studies. Author and editor of books on nineteenth-century women writers, women in history, feminist criticism, and men's movements. My memoir, TASTING HOME: COMING OF AGE IN THE KITCHEN, was published in 2013 with She Writes Press.I blog about the emotional meanings of food, travel, and gardens at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-newton/,http://ipinionsyndicate.com/author/judithnewton/and at http://tasting-home.com.

Author of Women, Power and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction; Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique; From Panthers to Promise Keepers: Rethinking the Men's Movement; co-editor of Sex and Class in Women's History and Feminist Criticism and Social Change; contributor to Boys Don't Cry; Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory; Wann Ist Der Mann Ein Mann?; Feminisms; Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship; Generations; The New Historicisms; Confessions of the Critics; Rewriting the Victorians; From Sociology to Cultural Studies, Alien Zone, Il neohistoriscimo. Four of my books are being reprinted this fall by Routledge and the University of Michigan Press.

Yes I am part of a writer's group.