Deborah Lynn Steinberg
{{Short description|British sociologist}}
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Deborah Lynn Steinberg (7 October 1961 – 6 February 2017) was a British-based American academic, author, educator and sociologist.{{cite web|url=http://discoversociety.org/2017/02/12/remembering-deborah-lynn-steinberg/|title=Remembering Deborah Lynn Steinberg|date=12 February 2017|website=Discover Society|accessdate=17 August 2017|archive-date=17 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817205316/http://discoversociety.org/2017/02/12/remembering-deborah-lynn-steinberg/|url-status=dead}}[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/06/deborah-lynn-steinberg-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Deborah Lynn Steinberg obituary], Theguardian.com; accessed 17 August 2017.{{cite news |last1=Tessler |first1=Gloria |title=Obituary: Deborah Lynn Steinberg |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/obituary-deborah-lynn-steinberg-1.436447 |access-date=3 March 2021 |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=19 April 2017}} She was a professor of Gender, Culture and Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
Steinberg was born and brought up in Los Angeles, the daughter of Irwin Steinberg, a radiologist, and his wife, Maxine (née Beckerman) Steinberg, a lawyer. She had a BA in Women's Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; an MA from the University of Kent, and a PhD from the University of Birmingham.{{cite web|title=Profile: Deborah Lynn Steinberg|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/steinbergd|publisher=Department of Sociology, University of Warwick|accessdate=17 August 2017}}
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, but was given the all clear in 2013. However, the disease returned the following year. She continued to work until incapacitated by the disease, and died in 2017, aged 55.
Books
- {{cite book | last1 = Steinberg| first1 = Deborah Lynn | last2 = Spallone | first2 = Patricia | title = Made to order: the myth of reproductive and genetic progress | url = https://archive.org/details/madetoordermytho0000spal| url-access = registration| publisher = Pergamon Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780807762264 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Steinberg| first1 = Deborah Lynn | last2 = Klein | first2 = Renate | title = Radical voices: a decade of feminist resistance from women's studies international forum | publisher = Pergamon Press | location = Oxford England New York | year = 1989 }} {{ISBN|9780080364834}}.
- {{cite book | last = Steinberg | first = Deborah Lynn | title = Bodies in glass: genetics, eugenics, embryo ethics | publisher = Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press | location = Manchester New York New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780719046681 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Steinberg| first1 = Deborah Lynn | last2 = Epstein | first2 = Debbie | last3 = Johnson | first3 = Richard | title = Border patrols: policing the boundaries of heterosexuality | publisher = Cassell | location = London Herndon, Virginia | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780304334797 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Steinberg| first1 = Deborah Lynn | last2 = Kear | first2 = Adrian | title = Mourning Diana: nation, culture and the performance of grief | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780203260432 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Steinberg| first1 = Deborah Lynn | last2 = Johnson | first2 = Richard | title = Blairism and the war of persuasion: Labour's passive revolution | publisher = Lawrence & Wishart | location = London | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780853159926 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Steinberg| first1 = Deborah Lynn | title = Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture | publisher = Routledge | location = London | year = 2015 | isbn = 9781409462552 }}
References
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External links
- [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F283398 Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (c1970-2000), academic and sociologist], papers at the National Archives
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Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Kent
Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Category:Academics of the University of Warwick
Category:American expatriates in the United Kingdom
Category:American sociologists
Category:American women sociologists
Category:Writers from Los Angeles
Category:Place of death missing
Category:Deaths from breast cancer
Category:21st-century American women
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