Susan Starr Sered
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Susan Starr Sered | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 69–70) |
| Occupation | Professor |
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| Discipline | Anthropoligist; sociologist |
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Susan Starr Sered (born 1955) is Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University and Senior Researcher at Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights.[1] Previously, she was the director of the Religion, Health and Healing Initiative at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, and a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her interests include both research and advocacy/activism.
Sered works closely with the Massachusetts Women's Justice Network and other organizations advocating for women's human rights and against mass incarceration.
Published works
[edit]Sered is the author of seven books, nearly 100 scholarly articles, and numerous op-eds and shorter articles focusing on women's health, mass incarceration, and a variety of religious issues.
Books
[edit]- Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem, New York: Oxford University Press, (1992)
- Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women. New York: Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-508395-8.
- Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-512486-6.[2][3]
- What Makes Women Sick?: Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society. Brandeis series on Jewish women. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-58465-024-9.
- Religious healing in Boston : first findings, Ed. Susan Sered and Linda Barnes Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2001)
- Religious healing in Boston : reports from the field, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2002)
- Religious healing in Boston : body, spirit, community, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2004)
- Religion and healing in America, Ed. Susan Sered and Linda L. Barnes Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, (2005)
- Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-520-24442-9.; with Rushika Fernandopulle
- Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility. Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-520-28278-0.; with Maureen Norton-Hawk
Articles
[edit]- 2013 (with Maureen Norton-Hawk) “Criminalized Women and the Healthcare System: The Case for Continuity of Services,” Journal of Correctional Health Care 19(3): 164-177.
- 2012 (with Maureen Norton-Hawk) “Criminalized Women and Twelve Step Programs: Addressing Violations of the Law with a Spiritual Cure,” Implicit Religion 15(1): 37-60.
- 2011 (with Maureen Norton-Hawk) “Whose Higher Power: Criminalized Women Confront the Twelve Steps,” Feminist Criminology 6 (4): 308-322.
- 2011 (with Marilyn Delle Donne Proulx) “Lessons for Women's Health from the Massachusetts Reform: Affordability, Transitions and Choice,” Women’s Health Issues 21(1): 1-5.
- 2008 (with Amy Agigian) “Holistic Sickening: Breast Cancer and the Discursive Worlds of Complementary and Alternative Practitioners,” Sociology of Health and Illness 30(4): 616-631.
- 2005 Threadbare: Holes in America’s Health Care Safety Net (with Catherine Hoffman), Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Washington DC.
- 2002 “Healing and Religion: A Jewish Perspective,” Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, special issue “Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and Care of the Patient.”
- 1999 "'You are a Number, Not a Human Being': Israeli Breast Cancer Patients' Experiences with the Medical Establishment," Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(3): 223-252.
- 1999 "Talking about Mikveh Parties, or The Discourse of Status, Hierarchy and Social Control" in Rahel Wasserfall, ed. Women and Water: Niddah and Mikveh in Jewish Cultures, UPNE.
- 1995 "Rachel's Tomb: The Development of a Cult," Jewish Studies Quarterly 2(2): pp. 103–148.
- 1988 "Food and Holiness: Cooking as a Sacred Act Among Middle-Eastern Jewish Women," Anthropological Quarterly, 61(3): 129-140.
Awards
[edit]- 1993: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish Thought category for Women as Ritual Experts[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Susan Sered". Suffolk University. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
- ^ "Declaration of Concern" (PDF). Ryukyuanist (54).
- ^ "A Response to Critics" (PDF). Ryukyuanist (55).
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
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