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Theodore Roszak is Professor of History at California State University, Hayward. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, San Francisco State University, California State University, Hayward, and Schumacher College in the U.K.
His books include Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders, a comprehensive study of the cultural and political implications of our society's lengthening life expectancy, and the widely acclaimed The Making of a Counter Culture, a much discussed, best selling interpretation of the turbulent sixties, now available in a new edition from the University of California Press. He has also written The Voice of the Earth (Touchstone Books), The Cult of Information, (University of California Press) a study of the use and abuse of computers in all walks of life, and The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science, a study of gender-bias in the theory and practice of science, with a preface by Jane Goodall. His books The Voice of the Earth and Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth are the founding texts of the ecopsychology movement. With his wife Betty, he is co-editor of the anthology Masculine/Feminine: Essays on Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women.
His fiction includes Flicker (Simon and Schuster and Bantam Books) and the award-winning Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Random House and Bantam Books), both of which are under option for major feature films. His most recent novel, published in 2003, is The Devil and Daniel Silverman. Theodore Roszak has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was twice nominated for the National Books Award.
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