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Betsy Ettorre
Elizabeth Mary Ettorre (born 28 June 1948) is an Anglo-American feminist sociologist.
Ettorre completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology at Fordham University, New York, before earning a Ph.D. in the subject with a thesis 'The Sociology of lesbianism: female "deviance" and female sexuality' at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She attended the UK's first National Lesbian Conference in Bristol in 1974 and helped to organise the UK's ninth national Women's liberation movement conference in London in 1977. Ettorre did sociological research at Institute of Psychiatry, Birkbeck College and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School all of the University of London in the 1970s – 1980s; became Professor of Sociology at University of Plymouth and as of 2011 is emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. Since the mid-1990s, Ettorre has been a Docent in Sociology at Åbo Akademi University and University of Helsinki. Aside from lesbianism and feminism, her academic interests include women and substance use, reproduction and genetics and autoethnography.
Since 1990, Ettorre has lived in Helsinki, Finland with her wife, Irmeli Laitinen, a Finnish feminist psychotherapist and group analyst.
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Betsy Ettorre
Elizabeth Mary Ettorre (born 28 June 1948) is an Anglo-American feminist sociologist.
Ettorre completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology at Fordham University, New York, before earning a Ph.D. in the subject with a thesis 'The Sociology of lesbianism: female "deviance" and female sexuality' at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She attended the UK's first National Lesbian Conference in Bristol in 1974 and helped to organise the UK's ninth national Women's liberation movement conference in London in 1977. Ettorre did sociological research at Institute of Psychiatry, Birkbeck College and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School all of the University of London in the 1970s – 1980s; became Professor of Sociology at University of Plymouth and as of 2011 is emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. Since the mid-1990s, Ettorre has been a Docent in Sociology at Åbo Akademi University and University of Helsinki. Aside from lesbianism and feminism, her academic interests include women and substance use, reproduction and genetics and autoethnography.
Since 1990, Ettorre has lived in Helsinki, Finland with her wife, Irmeli Laitinen, a Finnish feminist psychotherapist and group analyst.