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Bettina Aptheker

University of California, United States

Biography

Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). A scholar-activist Bettina co-led both the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley 1964-65, and the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis (1970-1972). Bettina began teaching in the Women’s Studies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1981 and helped to build it into one of the leading Feminist Studies departments in the country. In 2019 Bettina launched an online course, Feminism & Social Justice. As of now over 127,000 people have taken the course across the globe. Bettina’s two most recent books are Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech & Became a Feminist Rebel (2006).  
Communists in Closets: Queering the History, 1930s-1990 (2023)

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