Email: rebecca@clitoraltruth.com
Ph.D. Candidate in Sexuality Studies at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human
Sexuality, San Francisco, California
Graduate Seminar in Sexuality Studies, Sexuality Institute, San Francisco State University, San
Francisco, California, July, 2004. Full tuition scholarship award.
M.A., English Literature, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 1975
Thesis: “A Psychoanalytic Reading of Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener”
B.A., Political Science and Humanities, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 1966
2004 - ongoing Visiting Lecturer, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. “Sexual Revolutions from the Ice Age to the New Millennium,” undergraduate and graduate course in the Women’s Studies Program
2000 - ongoing Adjunct Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Pace University, New York, N.Y., “Sexual Revolutions from the Ice Age to the New Millennium,” undergraduate course in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, in class and online
2004 February Lecturer, The Museum of Sex, New York, NY. Four part series, “Sexual Revolutions from the Ice Age to the New Millennium”
1966 – 1967 Peace Corps Teacher, The College of Social Work, Tehran, Iran. Freshman English
Brachytherapy for Cancer and Heart Disease: The Best Kept Secret in Modern Medicine, ghost writer for Dattatreyudu Nori. Nori Foundation, 2004
The Clitoral Truth. Seven Stories Press, 2000
A Woman’s Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486 (senior author).
Seven Stories Press, 1992
Overcoming Bladder Disorders: Medical and Self-Help Advice on Incontinence, Cystitis, Interstitial Cystitis, Prostate Problems, and Bladder Cancer (senior author). HarperCollins, 1990
The Complete Cervical Cap Guide. Harper & Row, 1987
A New View of a Woman’s Body (editor). The Federation of Feminist Women’s Health
Centers. Simon & Schuster, 1981; Feminist Health Press, 1991
How to Stay Out of the Gynecologist’s Office (editor). The Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers. Peace Press, 1981; Feminist Health Press, 1991
The Cervical Cap, The Clitoris, Female Ejaculation, and The IUD, articles in Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. Jo Eadie, ed. Arnold (U.K.), 2004.
Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health, review. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, Vol. 30, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2004.
Inspra™ (eplerenone). Product monograph, Pfizer Inc., 2003.
The G spot: Some Missing Pieces of the Puzzle, letter, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 187(2), August, 2002.
A Collaborative Approach to Treating Interstitial Cystitis, (co-author) Journal of Urology (Supp.), May, 1997.
Examining Sexual Politics, review, Journal of Sex Research, 34(2), 1997.
Etude comparative de l’anatomie clitoridienne, Cahiers de Sexologie Clinique, 22:132, 1997.
Updating the Model of Female Sexuality, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS Report), Vol. 22, No. 5, June/July 1994.
The Cervical Cap, contribution to The Childbirth Encyclopedia, B. Katz-Rothman, ed., Oryx Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1993.
A Walking Tour Through the Clitoris, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, July, 2008
A Walking Tour Through the Clitoris, Babeland, Soho, New York, March, 2008
The Fundamentalist Attack on Women’s Sexual Rights, Social Justice Seminar, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, April, 2007.
The Fundamentalist Attack on Women’s Sexual Rights, The Oxford Roundtable on Women’s Rights, Trinity College, University of Oxford, U.K., March, 2005
Beauvoir on Sex: Prescient or Passe? Workshop presentation at the Beauvoir Society Symposium, The Sorbonne, Paris, France, June, 2003.
Sexual Revolutions from the Ice Age to the New Millennium, workshop presentation at the World Congress of Sexology, Havana, Cuba, March, 2003.
How the Clitoris Got Lost, workshop presentation at the World Congress of Sexology, Hong Kong, China, August, 1999.
Feminists Redefine Male-Centered Sexuality, workshop presentation at the World Congress of Sexology, Hong Kong, China, August 25, 1999.
The History of Donor Insemination From an Activist Perspective, lecture to Graduate Seminar in New Reproductive Technologies, The New School University, New York, NY, and Seminar in New Reproductive Technologies at New York University, New York, NY, October, 1998.
The Male Model of Sexuality, Two part lecture series, Pace University, March, 1998.
The Right Wing Attack on Sexuality: Historical Precedents, facilitator and presenter, American Public Health Association, New York, New York, November, 1996.
Menstrual Extraction, workshop presented at the 10th Annual Reproductive Rights Conference, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, March, 1996.
Reclaiming Women’s Sexuality, workshop presented at the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September, 1995.
Techniques for Safe Abortion, workshop presented at the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September, 1995.
The Cervical Cap: Little Known Barrier Contraceptive, workshop presented at the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September, 1995.
A Comparative Study of the Clitoral Anatomy, 12th World Congress of Sexology,
Yokohama, Japan, August, 1995.
The Cervical Cap, World Congress of Sexology, Yokohama, Japan, August, 1995.
Featured Speaker, Earlham College Pro-choice Week, Richmond, Indiana, January, 1995.
Feminists Rewrite the Male Model of Human Sexuality, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Regional Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June, 1995.
The Redefinition of the Clitoris, facilitator and presenter, American Public Health Association, San Diego 1995, San Francisco 1994, Washington D.C. 1993, Atlanta, October, 1992.
The Redefinition of the Clitoris and Its Therapeutic Value for Women, Proceedings of the
First International Conference on Orgasm, New Delhi, India, February, 1991.
Factors Preventing RU-486 From Being Distributed, American Public Health Association,
New York, NY, 1991.
Survey of 125 Interstitial Cystitis Patients: Experience with Medical and Complementary Treatments, Quality of Life and Sexuality, Sixth National Meeting, Interstitial Cystitis Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, May, 1990.
Use and Provision of the Cervical Cap in the United States, Cervical Cap Symposium, Royal College of Medicine, London, England, June, 1988.
The Women’s Health Movement’s Participation in the Revival of the Cervical Cap in the United States, United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Panel Considering Approval of the Cervical Cap, Washington, D.C., March, 1988.
The Revival of the Cervical Cap in the United States, Featured Speaker, World Congress of Sexology, Special Symposium on the Cervical Cap, Heidelberg, Germany, 1987.
Researching the Stone: Recent Research on Sexuality, On Our Backs, September, 2005.
Rx Homeopathy: Beyond the Cranberry Cure, Delicious! July, 1998.
Changing the Change (Menopause Options), The Village Voice, June 16, 1998.
Female Ejaculation: Fact or Fiction? New York City Lesbian Health Fair Journal, May 4, 1996.
Clitoral Anatomy, New York City Lesbian Health Fair Journal, May 4, 1996.
Anatomy of the Clitoris, New York City Lesbian Health Fair Journal, April 29, 1995.
Unscripted Pleasure, cover article, Ms., Nov.-Dec. 1995.
Updating the Model of Female Sexuality, cover article, Journal of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), 22:5, June/July 1994.
Redefining the Clitoris, NYC Lesbian Health Fair Journal, April 16, 1994.
A New (Old) Contraceptive Choice, Ms., Nov.-Dec. 1993.
RU-486: Yes, Ms., March/April, 1993.
RU-486, The Village Voice, July 16, 1993.
The Whats, Hows, and Whys of Menstrual Extraction, On the Issues, Spring, 1993.
Incontinence, Ms., March/April, 1990.
Copy Editor, Medicus International, 2001.
Writer of articles and brochures for the National Bladder Foundation, 1998.
Editor, The ICA Update, quarterly newsletter, and writer, patient resource materials for the Interstitial Cystitis Association, 1993 – 1998.
Newsletter Writer/Editor, News and Reviews, and publicity writer, Ballantine Books, 1986 – 1988.