Ruth Frankenberg

Ruth Alice Emma Frankenberg (17 September 1957 – 22 April 2007) was a British–American social scientist and feminist, known for her pioneering work in the field of whiteness studies.

Biography Ruth Frankenberg was born in Cardiff, Wales, 17 September 1957. She was the daughter of Ronald Frankenberg (1929–2015), an anthropologist best known for his work Village on the Border, which demonstrated how anthropological methods could be appropriately applied to British society. Her partner Lata Mani is a feminist and historian, currently residing in California. Mani is the author of Contentious Traditions, an analysis of widow burning in colonial India. She is of Jewish descent through her father.

She was educated in Cambridge and at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Frankenberg is the author of White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness, In White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness, Frankenberg argues race shapes both the lives of the oppressor (white people, according to Frankenberg) as well as the oppressed. Frankenberg suggests that the white women she interviewed for White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness initially did not think that they paid much attention to race. of cancer.