US-amerikanische Professorin für Rechtswissenschaften, Frauenforschung und Politikwissenschaften. PhD, University of California Los Angeles, 1981. Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University the State University of New Jersey. Visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Professorin an der Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1989-1994