Ann Jones (author) explained

Ann Jones
Birth Date:3 September 1937
Birth Place:Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S.
Occupation:Writer, journalist, photographer, educator, civil rights activist
Genre:Non-fiction

Ann Jones (born September 3, 1937) is an American journalist and author of a number of non-fiction books about her research into women's and humanitarian issues: Women Who Kill, Kabul in Winter, Looking for Lovedu, Next Time She'll be Dead and When Love Goes Wrong. She has also written and taken photographs for a number of publications including National Geographic Traveler, Outside, The Nation, The San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times. The majority of her work and writings centers on women's issues, especially domestic violence. Jones has provided humanitarian aid around the world, including Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast.[1] She currently resides in Oslo, Norway.

Biography

Ann Jones was born September 3, 1937, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the daughter of insurance broker Oscar Trygve Slagsvol and musician Bernice Slagsvol.[2] She grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from Eau Claire Memorial High School in 1955. She received a doctorate in American literature and intellectual history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison[3] in 1970, and taught English at City College of New York from 1970 to 1973. She served as coordinator of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1973–1975) and was a member of the writing faculty at Mount Holyoke College (1986–1997). In 2002 Jones became a human rights researcher, teacher and women's advocate in Afghanistan.[2]

Books

Women's violence issues

Women Who Kill,[4] originally published in 1980 and then re-printed in 1996 was Jones' first widely released and read book and included coverage of notable mysteries including that of Lizzie Borden.[5] The book led to Jones being interviewed on subjects such as female incarceration,[6] battered wives,[7] and other issues affecting female violence. The book included controversial issues including whether homicide was a woman's last defense if she could not get support from others, including the police.[8] Next Time She'll be Dead,[9] like When Women Kill, examined known cases of domestic violence and its effect on women, including Hedda Nussbaum.[10] When Love Goes Wrong.,[11] which Jones co-wrote with Susan Schechter, was intended as a resource for women suffering from abuse.[12]

Travel related

Kabul in Winter,[13] written about Jones' experience in Afghanistan in 2002 and her observations of a city utterly destroyed by war, warlords and the Taliban where she felt a need to try to pick up the pieces.[14] While in Afghanistan, Jones drew on her training as an English teacher and helped to re-train the city's teachers,[15] a challenge in a city where more than 95% of the women are affected by domestic violence.[16] Jones is critical of the George W. Bush administration, especially its policies in Afghanistan,[17] and the ways in which relief funds are used,[18] and her book touches on how those policies made working in Afghanistan somewhat of a challenge.[14]

She has also reported from Afghanistan while embedded with U.S. and Afghan National Army troops.[19]

Looking for Lovedu,[20] chronicles Jones' experience as she travels the length of Africa from Morocco to South Africa and her experiences with border guards, who could not understand her travelling on her own.[21] Jones took the trip with British photographer Kevin Muggleton as a search for South Africa's Lovedu tribe,[21] but the trip ended up to be about far more, including women's issues in present-day Africa.[22]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A War on Women. 2008-02-23. 2008-02-17. Ann Jones. The Los Angeles Times.
  2. Ann Jones in Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. January 19, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
  3. http://www.uwec.edu/Activities/programs/forum/tradition/images/Jones_4-23-81.jpg Ann Jones Forum Special
  4. Book: Jones, Ann. Women Who Kill. 1996. 448. Beacon Press. 0-8070-6775-X.
  5. Web site: Was There a Conspiracy in the Infamous Murder Mystery of Andrew and Abby Borden. 2008-02-23. 2008-02-02. Denise Noe. Men's News Daily. https://web.archive.org/web/20141020012039/http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/02/02/was-there-a-conspiracy-in-the-infamous-murder-mystery-of-andrew-and-abby-borden/. 2014-10-20. dead.
  6. Web site: Number of Female Inmates Soars. 2008-02-23. 2003-03-05. M.L. Lyke. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  7. Web site: Convicting a Battered Wife. 2008-02-23. 1985-09-15. Ann Jones. The New York Times.
  8. Web site: The Final Self-Defense. 2008-02-23. 1989-12-31. Teresa Carpenter. The New York Times.
  9. Book: Jones, Ann. Next Time She'll be Dead. registration. 2000. 309. Beacon Press. 9780807067895. 080706789X.
  10. News: The Faces of Hedda Nussbaum. 2008-02-23. Francine Russo. The New York Times . 1997-03-30.
  11. Book: Jones, Ann. When Love Goes Wrong. registration. Susan Schechter. 1993. 368. HarperCollins. 0060923695.
  12. Web site: Susan Schechter, 57, Author of Books Exploring Impact of Domestic Violence. 2008-02-23. 2004-02-16. Campbell Robertson. The New York Times.
  13. Book: Jones, Ann. Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan. 2006. 321. Macmillan. 0805078843.
  14. Web site: Lowly Status of Women in a Land Struggling to Rise. 2008-02-23. 2006-04-05. William Grimes. The New York Times.
  15. Web site: Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan . 2008-02-23 . Foreign Policy Association . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070819210212/http://www.fpa.org/pubs_inventory2418/pubs_inventory_show.htm?doc_id=376888 . 2007-08-19 .
  16. Web site: Married to the Same Man. 2008-02-23. 2007-06-14. John Freeman. The Jerusalem Post.
  17. Web site: US's Afghan Policies Going Up in Smoke. https://web.archive.org/web/20070112154250/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HK01Df01.html. unfit. 2007-01-12. 2008-02-23. 2006-11-01. Ann Jones. Asia Times.
  18. Web site: Slow Pace of Change in Afghanistan Prompts Questions. 2008-02-23. ABC News. 2006-09-25. Peter Lloyd. The World Today.
  19. Web site: Tomgram: Ann Jones, In Bed With the U.S. Army . Jones . Ann . August 1, 2010 . tomdispatch.com . . August 17, 2016 .
  20. Book: Jones, Ann. Looking for Lovedu. 2001. 288. Knopf Publishing Group. 0375405542.
  21. Web site: The Footprints Women Make. 2008-02-23. 2001-08-29. Kate Madden Yee. The East Bay Express.
  22. Web site: Books of the Times; Trekking Widely Across an Africa of the Imagination. 2008-02-23. 2001-01-26. Richard Bernstein . The New York Times.

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