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Gordon, Linda Ph.D.

Linda Gordon, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of history at New York University, New York, NY and recipient of many awards and honors. She is also a Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2004-05. Her areas of expertise include orphans and single mothers, Twentieth-century U.S. social, political, and social policy history. Linda Gordon’s books include: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction; Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America; and Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the Origins of Welfare which won the Berkshire Prize for best book in women’s history and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award. In 2009 Gordon published Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, a study of the photographer Dorothea Lange and the political culture of the New Deal and World War II.