CLAUDIA
DREIFUS
Senior
Fellow
Expertise:Women's
rights; American politics; media criticism
Experience:
Writer
for Science Times of The New York Times and Contributing
Writer to The New York Times Magazine; contributes to Premiere,
Town and Country,
Playboy,TV Guide,
Modern Maturity,
Ms. Magazine,
Mirabella; Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in Creative
Writing, CCNY (1993-97); Guest Host on local New York City issues
on "Live Wire," on WNET-New York (1991); Commentator on health
and science topics for "City Edition" and "Special Edition, "WNET--TV
(1979-80)
Selected
Publications:
Dreifus'
book Interview (Seven Stories Press; reissued in paperback
with additional interviews,April 1999). Dreifus is a freelance
writer for national publications, producing articles in The
Atlantic,
The Nation,
Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times,
Entertainment Weekly,
Mother Jones,
Parade,
The Dial,
The Progressive,
Penthouse,
Ms.,
Redbook,
Reader's Digest,
McCall's,
Glamour. She is author of the preface to 25th Anniversary
Edition of The Doctor's Case: Against the Pill by Barbara
Seaman(1994); The Collected Playboy Interviews--CD Rom,
PIE, Chicago (1994). Contributor to: Evergreen Review Reader
(1999), Four Walls, Eight Windows, Ideologies, (Third Edition,
1997); Immigration: Debating The Issues (1997); Feminist
Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of Relations Between
Men and Women (1984); The Criminal Justice System and Women
(1982); Seizing Our Bodies: The Politics of Women's Health
(1978); Woman's Fate (1974); Radical Lifestyles
(1970).
Honors
& Affiliations:
Nominated
for 1992 National Magazine Award by TV Guide for investigative
report on censorship,"TVs Censor from Tupelo"; 1987 Outstanding
Magazine Article Award from American Society of Journalists and
Authors for "Rodrigo's Last Trip Home"; 1987 American Values Award
for "How Rural Woman are Saving the Family Farm"; 1987 American
Jewish Press Association's Simon Rockower Award for Distinguished
Commentary for "Why I Write"; Special Award for Service to Women,
YWCA of New York, 1980; Listed, "Who's Who In America, 2000";
Listed, "Who's Who In The World, 2000"; PEN; American Society
of Journalists and Authors; The Authors Guild; The National Writer's
Union
Education:
B.S. in
Dramatic Arts, New York University
Languages:
German
(fluent); French and Spanish (basic working knowledge)
Contact
Information:
E-mail:
claudreif@aol.com
website:
http://www.tribo.org/interview/
