Carol Riddell

Carol S. Riddell is a British feminist and socialist sociologist and transgender person who was active in the UK Women's liberation movement in the 1970s. She is known for authoring Divided Sisterhood, the first feminist critique of Janice Raymond's book The Transsexual Empire.

Career

Riddell was a radical professor of sociology at Lancaster University and taught women's studies in the United States. She co-authored a well-received sociology textbook with Margaret Coulson. In the paper, Riddell called for transvestite and transsexuals to join "with other sexually persecuted minorities, particularly, homosexuals, in confrontation with the police, the legal profession, the psychiatrists, the capitalist nuclear family, capitalist gender roles, capitalist attitudes, and fundamentally the capitalist system itself". In the 1990s she worked for Highland Renewal, a charity which restored natural ecosystems in the Ross of Mull.