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Cruikshank, Margaret (1940 - )
Genre: Non-Fiction - Scholarly
Margaret (Peg) Cruikshank was a professor of women's studies and LGBT studies at the University of Maine (retired, 2011) and a faculty associate of the Center on Aging. She is known for her ground breaking work establishing the importance of lesbian studies. She had Fulbright Fellowships in British Columbia and Austria. She previously taught at the City College of San Francisco and was affiliated with The Center for Research on Women at Stanford and the Beatrice Bain Center at UC Berkeley. She previously taught at the City College of San Fransisco. Cruikshank lived in Corea, ME and is now a resident of Scarborough.
Selected Bibliography
- Lesbian studies: present and future (1982) Editor
- The Lesbian path ( 1980 and 1985) Editor
- The gay and lesbian liberation movement (1992)
- Fierce With Reality: An Anthology of Literature on Aging (Rev.ed.2017)
- Learning to be old : gender, culture, and aging (3rd ed. 2013)
Papers
- UCLA Special Collections, Young Research Library donated by the June Mazer Lesbian Archive
- San Francisco Public Library, Hormel Collection
- University of Minnesota, Andersen Research Library, Tretter Collection
- University of Southern Maine, Glickman Library, Sampson Collection
