Elizabeth Mary Ettorre (born 28 June 1948) is an

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Career

Ettorre completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at

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, New York, before earning a Ph.D. in the subject with a thesis
The Sociology of lesbianism: female "deviance" and female sexuality
at the

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. She attended the UK's first National Lesbian Conference in Bristol in 1974 and helped to organise the UK's ninth national

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conference in London in 1977. Ettorre did sociological research at

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and

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all of the

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in the 1970s – 1980s; became Professor of Sociology at

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and as of 2011 is Emeritus Professor of Sociology,

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and Honorary Professor,

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, Denmark. Since the mid-1990s, Ettorre has been a Docent in Sociology at

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and

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. Aside from lesbianism and feminism, her academic interests include women and substance use, reproduction and genetics and autoethnography.

Personal life

Since 1990, Ettorre has lived in

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with her wife, Irmeli Laitinen, a Finnish feminist psychotherapist and group analyst.

Selected publications

*''Autoethnography as feminist method: sensitizing the feminist ‘I’''(London: Routledge, 2017) . * (with E. Annandale, V.M. Hildebrand, A. Porroche-Escudero and B. Katz Rothman) ''Health, Culture & Society: Conceptual legacies and contemporary applications'' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) . * (with Nancy Campbell) ''Gendering addiction: the politics of drug treatment in a neurochemical world'' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) . * (2010) “Nuns, dykes, drugs and gendered bodies: An autoethnography of a lesbian feminist’s journey through ‘good time’ sociology”, Sexualities,13, 3: 295–315, . *''Revisioning Women and Drug use: Gender, Power and the Body'' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) . * (Editor) ''Making Lesbians visible in the Substance Use Field'' (New York: The Haworth Press, 2005) . * (2000) Exploring Lesbian Archetypes or Reviving 'drooping wings' Journal of Lesbian Studies, 4, 1: 127-143 . *''Reproductive genetics, gender and the body'' (London, Routledge, 2002) . *''Women and Alcohol: From a private pleasure to a public problem?'' (London:

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, 1997) . * (with E. Riska) Gendered Moods: Psychotropics and Society. (London: Routledge, 1995) *''Women and Substance Use'' (London, Macmillan, 1992) . * (1985) 'Compulsory heterosexuality and psycho-trophy' Women's Studies International Forum, 8, 421–428, . *''Lesbians, Women and Society'' (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980) . * (1980) 'Sappho revisited: a new look at lesbianism', Women's Studies International Quarterly, 3, 415–442. * (1978) 'Women, urban social movements and the lesbian ghetto', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2, 499-520 * In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Ettorre has provided the definition for the word, “lesbianism”.

References

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