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About Janice Raymond
- Janice G.
- Raymond (born January 24, 1943) is an American lesbian radical feminist and professor emerita of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- She is known for her work against violence, sexual exploitation and the medical abuse of women, and for her controversial work on transsexuality. Raymond is the author of four books: The Transsexual Empire (1979), A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection (1986), Women as Wombs (1993), Not A Choice, Not A Job (2013); co-author of RU 486 (1991) and co-editor of The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (1990).
- She has published numerous articles on prostitution and lectures internationally on many of these topics via the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
- Her statements on transsexuality have been criticized by many in the LGBT and feminist communities as transphobic.
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