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Hanna Rosin (born 1970) is an Israeli-born American writer. She is the editorial director for audio for ''
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with
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. She was co-founder of DoubleX, the now closed women's site connected to the online magazine ''
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'', and the ''DoubleX'' (now ''The Waves'') podcast. Rosin has written for ''
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'', '' GQ'', '' New York'' and ''
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''. She is the author of ''God's Harvard'' (2007) and '' The End of Men: And the Rise of Women'' (2012).


Early life and education

Rosin was born in
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
; she grew up in
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, where her father was a taxi driver. She is
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. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1987, where she won a number of competitions on the debate team with her debate partner
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. She attended
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.


Career

Rosin is a co-founder of Slate magazine's DoubleX, a women's site. She is also a writer for ''
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''. She has written for ''
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'', ''
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'', '' GQ'' and '' New York'' after beginning her career as a staff writer for ''
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''. Rosin has also appeared on ''
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'' and ''
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'' on
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. A character portrayed by actress Chloë Sevigny in the 2003 film '' Shattered Glass'' about Rosin's colleague at ''The New Republic'',
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, was loosely based on Rosin. Rosin partly has specialized in writing about
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issues, in particular the influence of
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on the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign. She is the author of ''God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America'', published in September 2007. Based on a ''New Yorker'' story, the book follows several young Christians at
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, a new evangelical institution that teaches its students to "lead henation and shape heculture." In 2009, she published a controversial article in ''
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'' entitled "The Case Against Breast-Feeding," questioning whether current social pressures in favor of
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were appropriate, and whether the science in support of the practice was conclusive. In 2009 she was nominated for a National Magazine Award for "Boy's Life", a story about a young
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girl. In 2010 she won the award for her contribution to a package of stories in New York magazine about circumcision. Her stories have also been included in anthologies of
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2009 and Best American Crime Reporting 2009. Rosin has published a book based on her 2010 ''Atlantic'' story, '' The End of Men''. She gave a TED talk on the subject in 2010. In the talk, she details the emergence of women as a powerful force in the American workplace. For Rosin, this shifting economy has allowed women to use their most gendered stereotypical strengths to succeed. On February 27, 2012, following the death of children's author
Jan Berenstain Stanley Melvin Berenstain (September 29, 1923 – November 26, 2005) and Janice Marian Berenstain (née Grant; July 26, 1923 – February 24, 2012) were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book ser ...
, Rosin wrote an article critical of the
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series of books and said "good riddance" to the beloved children's author. After negative public reaction to her use of the phrase "good riddance," Rosin issued an apology.


Bibliography

* * * '' The End of Men: And the Rise of Women''. New York, New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. * ''The Patriarchy Is Dead: Feminists, accept it.'' Slate.com (Sept. 11, 2013).


References


External links

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Rosin articles on TheAtlantic.com

Video (with mp3 available) of discussion with Rosin and Ruth Lawrence
on
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