Kathleen O'Grady
Researcher, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University; Principal, QUOI.
Last Contribution:
Toxic Mother's Day Gifts
Contributor Biography
Ms. O'Grady is a writer and editor living in Ottawa. She is a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University and the author and editor of numerous books and articles on women’s health and cultural issues.
Her book publications include, with Paula Wansbrough, Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation (Sumach), and, with Morny Joy and Judith Poxon, French Feminism and Religion: A Reader (Routledge); Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives (Routledge) and Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology (Sheffield). She has also authored children’s stories, including First Words (Bayeux).
Her writings on women's health, sexuality, and cultural issues have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers in North America, including: The Chicago Tribune, The Women's Review of Books, BUST magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, The Toronto Star, and many others.
She has been educated in the field of religion from a cultural studies perspective at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, and at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
