Author: Paula J. Caplan

Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist, activist, and advocate, most of whose 11 books are about women’s issues from a feminist perspective. She is Associate at the Du Bois Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University and a past Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. As a nonfiction author, playwright, and filmmaker, she has won many awards.
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How Misogyny Drives the Marginalized to Kill

With “Requiem for a Serial Killer,” does Phyllis Chesler leave us feeling that it was acceptable for Aileen Wuornos to kill those men? Not at all.

What she does is leave us feeling that the whole world needs to know the full realities of all kinds of abuse of children, the way it often leads to prostitution, and the forms of abuse to which some johns subject the women they pay for sex. We need to be determined to make such abuse stop.