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Victoria Pitts-Taylor (née Pitts) is Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, and also Professor of Science in Society and Sociology there. She was formerly a professor of sociology at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, and visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, New York. Pitts-Taylor is also former co-editor of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly. She has won the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociological Association, and the Feminist Philosophy of Science Prize from the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.

Education

Pitts-Taylor gained her PhD in Sociology in 1999 from Brandeis University.

Publications

• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2003). In the flesh: the cultural politics of body modification. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312293116.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2007). Surgery junkies: wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813541624.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2008). The cultural encyclopedia of the body, Vol. I and 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313341458.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2016). Mattering: feminism, science and materialism. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9781479845439.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2016). The brain's body: neuroscience and corporeal politics. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822361268.

References

1. ^ Pitts, Victoria L. (1999). Body strategies: signifying the body in subculture (Ph.D thesis). Brandeis University. OCLC 42748009.
2. "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". wesleyan.edu. Wesleyan University. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
3. "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". cuny.is. Queens College. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
4. "Victoria Pitts-Taylor". centerforthehumanities.org. Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
5. "Visiting fellows". socialdifference.columbia.edu. Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
6. Pitts-Taylor, Victoria; Schaffer, Talia (Spring–Summer 2011). "Editors' Note: Security, Safety, Safe". Women's Studies Quarterly. 39 (1–2). The Feminist Press: 9–12. doi:10.1353/wsq.2011.0017. JSTOR 41290271.
7. "Science, Knowledge, and Technology". American Sociological Association. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
8. Julien, Alec. "Women's Caucus Home". womenscaucus.philsci.org. Retrieved 2018-07-06.

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