Susan Jacoby

This reproduction of a book flap has a photo of Jacoby and some biographical information. How reliable do you find this info? How do you determine such things?

AARP's Webplace put up this brief biography of Jacoby after she wrote this article about modern maturity and sex for the site. If you had to choose between the information on this page or on the one above, which would you choose and why?

Here's a 2002 essay by Jacoby called "Stigma: There's No Shame in Telling—The Power of the Truth About Rape." What connections can you make between it and the essay in your text?

An interesting way to see the scope of Jacoby's work is to browse through the list of her citations at the Library of Congress. Did anything you found there surprise you?

Click here and you can read the first chapter, "Always Say Jewish," of Jacoby's Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past. After your reading, consider: how can you reconcile the title of the book with the title of the chapter?

Reason magazine posted this essay by Cathy Young about date rape. Read it and think about the essay by Jacoby in your text. How are these two pieces similar? Can you find any differences?

The Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network has created a site with information about rape counseling centers, rape statistics, and RAINN's mission and vision. If you'd like to do some research about these issues, their homepage is a good place to start.

Interested in putting Jacoby's work into the broader cultural context of feminist literature? This page of literary resources about feminism and women's literature will help you do just that.

Speaking of feminism, this 1998 reaction to a Time magazine essay entitled "Is Feminism Dead?" should be a great help researching Jacoby.