Linda Hirshman

Linda Redlick Hirshman

Linda Redlick Hirshman (born April 26, 1944) is an American lawyer, pundit, and the author of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women of the World, The Woman's Guide to Law School and Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex.

Hirshman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a retired distinguished professor of philosophy and women's studies at Brandeis University. She holds a law degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD in philosophy. She wrote her dissertation on the problem of social organizing in the work of Thomas Hobbes. She has written for a variety of periodicals, including The New York Times,The Washington Post,Slate,Salon, and The Daily Beast.

For fifteen years she practiced law, representing mostly organized labor. She participated in three cases in the United States Supreme Court, including, in 1985, the landmark case of Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, which established the line between the federal government and the states. She then went into academia, teaching law, philosophy, and women's studies, before she retired from Brandeis University in 2002.

In 2006, Hirshman released Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World in which she developed the arguments in "Homeward Bound" in favor of women working, to use their capacities, be independent and be of benefit to the larger society, and addressed some of the criticism of her earlier work.

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