Betsy Hartmann

Author, scholar, and activist Betsy Hartmann addresses critical national and global challenges in her books, articles, and public appearances. She is the author of the feminist classic Reproductive Rights and Wrong: The Global Politics of Population Control and of The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness . Eerily prescient, her two political thrillers, The Truth about Fire and Deadly Election , explore the threat the Far Right poses to American democracy. Betsy did her...See more

Author, scholar, and activist Betsy Hartmann addresses critical national and global challenges in her books, articles, and public appearances. She is the author of the feminist classic Reproductive Rights and Wrong: The Global Politics of Population Control and of The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness . Eerily prescient, her two political thrillers, The Truth about Fire and Deadly Election , explore the threat the Far Right poses to American democracy. Betsy did her undergraduate degree at Yale University and her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is professor emerita of Development Studies at Hampshire College, where she taught for twenty-eight years. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Last Place Called Home is her latest book. For more on Betsy, visit ... See less