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 Katherine
K. Young
James McGill Professor
Faculty of Religious Studies,
McGill University
Katherine K. Young, James
McGill Professor, has a B.A. (University
of Vermont) in philosophy and religion, an
M.A. (University of Chicago) in the History
of Religions, and a Ph.D. (McGill University)
in the History of Religions. A professor
in the Faculty of Religious Studies and a
member of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics,
and law, she publishes in three fields: comparative
ethics and law from a humanities perspective,
gender studies, and religion (with a specialization
in Hinduism). In the field of ethics, she
has co-authored the book Hindu Ethics (1989),
coedited Religion and Law in the Global
Village (2000), contributed the article “A
Cross-Cultural Historical Case against Planned
Self-willed Death and Assisted Suicide” to
the McGill Law Journal (1994), written all
the entries on law and human rights for the
forthcoming Encyclopedia of Hinduism (Routledge),
and contributed six chapters for the forthcoming
A History of Medical Ethics (Cambridge).
On the topic of gender, she has collaborated
with Arvind Sharma on twelve books on women
in world religions including Feminism
and World Religions, which was selected by Choice in 1999 as an Academic Book of Excellence.
With Dr. Nathanson, she has co-authored
a trilogy on ethics, law, and gender. The
first volume has appeared under the title
Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt
for Men in Popular Culture (McGill Queen's
University Press, 2001); it has been the
subject of many radio and television interviews
and articles in print. The second volume
of the trilogy called Legalizing Misandry:
From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination
Against Men is currently in press and will
be released in March 2006.
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