Kathleen O'Grady

Kathleen O'Grady is a Canadian author and academic. She has published two children's books,[1] but is more widely known as a feminist scholar who investigates women's health issues through a cultural lens and whose work addresses the under-researched intersection between feminism and the study of religion.[2] She is also a past Editor of Network, the national, bilingual health magazine for Canadian women, and has published several books addressing feminist theory and methodology.

Kathleen O'Grady
O'Grady at Parliament Hill, East Block, September 2010
Born1967 (age 53–54)
Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter, Academic
EducationWilfrid Laurier University (Canada); Cambridge University (UK
Period1990s to present
GenreNonfiction, adolescent literature, children's literature
Notable worksReligion in French Feminist Thought; French Feminists on Religion; Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology; Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation; First Words: Patti Kay's Dreamworks
Website
kathleenogrady.com

O'Grady is currently a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.[3]

Publications

O’Grady is the author of several journal and book articles and the co-editor of several books that document the influence of feminist theory in contemporary religious studies. Professor Pamela Sue Anderson of Oxford University has written that O’Grady is "a stellar scholar on French thinking, who writes brilliantly, with subtle, sophisticated and insightful prose about Kristeva, religion and feminism."[4]

O'Grady's co-edited collection of major French feminist writings on religion, French Feminists on Religion: A Reader (Routledge),[5] was the first representative selection of important writings by French-language feminist thinkers writing on the topic of religion, including the most influential and provocative texts on the subject from Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous,[6] Monique Wittig and Catherine Clément.[7][8]

Her co-edited companion volume, Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives (Routledge),[9][10] brings together some of the leading modern theological and religious responses to this body of work, and illustrates the ways in which French-language feminist thought has become a valuable tool in feminist efforts to rethink religion.

Her co-edited volume, Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology (Sheffield),[11] along with several journal and book articles on the topic of women and religion,[12][13][14] profile the important ways in which feminist thinkers are enriching and transforming traditional representations of women's religious lives.[15]

O’Grady is also an important figure in the women's health community, having been editor of the Canadian bilingual (French-English) women's health magazine, Network [16] (2002–2008), and having published numerous academic and mainstream press articles on topics related to women's sexual health, including writings on menstruation and menopause from a cross-cultural perspective, critical articles on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and menstrual suppression drugs.[17][18]

She also co-authored Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation,[19] a nonfiction book for adolescent girls that documents, through interviews and nonfiction short-stories, the many and varied lived experiences of first menstruation (menarche).[20][21][22][23]

Additionally, O’Grady has published a fictional children's book, First Words: Patti Kay’s Dreamworks.[24] O’Grady's other contributions on cultural issues have appeared widely in the mainstream press.[25]

Education

O’Grady was educated in the field of religion from a cultural studies perspective at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada and the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), United Kingdom. She has lectured in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary (Canada) and Wilfrid Laurier University, and given numerous guest lectures internationally. She is a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar and a former Bank of Montréal Visiting Scholar at the University of Ottawa (Canada).[26]

See also

References
  1. "Kathleen O'Grady - Children's Books Menu". Archived from the original on 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  2. "Kathleen O'Grady | Author and Editor". kathleenogrady.com. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2009-08-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Prof. Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford University) in The European Journal of Women’s Studies (13)1: p. 63.
  5. Joy, M.; O'Grady, K.; Poxon, J.L. (2002). French Feminists on Religion: A Reader. Routledge. ISBN 9780415215374. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  6. Cixous, Hélène; Sellers, Susan (2013-08-13). White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231519717.
  7. Lisa Isherwood, Feminist Theology, 15: 2006, p. 129)
  8. "Kathleen O'Grady - French Feminists on Religion (Reviews)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  9. Joy, M.; O'Grady, K.; Poxon, J.L. (2003). Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 9780415215367. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  10. "Book Review: Rethinking Religion/Rewriting Divinity -- Anderson 13 (1): 63 -- European Journal of Women's Studies". ejw.sagepub.com. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  11. O'Grady, K.A.; Gilroy, A.L.; Gray, J. (1998). Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology. Sheffield Academic. ISBN 9781850758549. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  12. Troyer, Kristin De (April 2003). Wholly Woman, Holy Blood: A Feminist Critique of Purity and Impurity. ISBN 9781563384004.
  13. "Forgiveness and the Logic of the Gift: Julia Kristeva" in Morny Joy (ed.), Women and the Gift, London: Routledge (2010); "The Semantics of ‘Taboo’: Menstrual Prohibitions in the Hebrew Bible," pp. 1-28 in Kristin De Troyer, Judith A. Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson and Anne-Marie Korte (eds.), Wholly Woman, Holy Blood: A Feminist Critique of Purity and Impurity. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International (Continuum International Publishing Group), 2003.
  14. Anderson, Pamela Sue (2004-01-01). Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings. Routledge. ISBN 9780415257503.
  15. Linda Woodhead, Theology (July–August) 1999
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-21. Retrieved 2009-08-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. Dan, Alice J.; Rosser, Sue V. (June 2003). Women's Health and Medicine: Transforming Prospectives and Practice. ISBN 9781558614383.
  18. "O'Grady". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  19. "Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation by Kathleen O'Grady and Paula Wansbrough". fathermag.com. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  20. Kaley Kennedy, Shameless magazine, Summer 2
  21. Karen Houppert, The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)
  22. Kimberly Arial, BUST magazine, 1998
  23. Sheree Haughian, Canadian Book Review Annual, 1998
  24. O'Grady, Kathleen; Keenan, Brona (2001-11-01). First Words: Patti Kay's DreamWorks. Bayeux Arts. ISBN 9781896209548.
  25. "Kathleen O'Grady - Newspaper and Magazine". Archived from the original on 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  26. "Sign Up | LinkedIn". linkedin.com. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
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