Alida Brill
Alida Brill is a writer and feminist social critic. About her most recent book, Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate a Life With Chronic Illness, Dave Isay, Founder of StoryCorps says, "Dancing at the River's Edge is an extraordinary meditation on illness -- a poetic, powerful and groundbreaking work that illuminates the resilience and strength of the human spirit. It is a remarkable book." This is not surprising.
Alida Brill is remarkable and has been writing remarkable books for years. Her life and her work span the generations of women through the second wave of feminism till now. There is almost no topic relating to women of any age which she cannot address. Her interests span diverse topics, including the personal and public politics of women and chronic illness, facilitating dialogue with young people, the right to reproductive choice, sexual privacy, the right to die, medical privacy, intolerance and prejudice.
Currently, Alida is working on her next book, Confessions of a Romantic Feminist: becoming a woman in a time of change and confusion. She is the co-author of Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe about Civil Liberties, Basic Books, 1983 (revised edition 1985.) Nobody's Business: The Paradoxes of Privacy, Addison-Wesley, 1990 (paperback 1991.) A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics 1995 (The United Nations and the Feminist Press).
The Women's Media Center (WMC) Progressive Women's Voices for 2008 selected Alida as one of their spokeswomen. Progressive Women's Voices connects media professionals with smart, media-savvy women experts in a variety of fields.
For more than a decade Alida Brill served as the Program officer of a national research program entitled, The Changing Role of Gender in American Institutions at the Russell Sage Foundation. She was co-convener of the Women's Dialogue US/USSR, a project which brought American and Soviet women together to discuss women's lives and domestic policies in both societies. And, was a distinguished visiting professor at Peking University, Beijing, China in 1991.
Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate a Life With Chronic Illness (Schaffner Press, January 2009) is a dual memoir, written with her physician, Michael Lockshin.
A frequent contributor to anthologies, Alida's longer essays include: Freedom, Fantasy, Foes and Feminism: The Debate Around Pornography, in Women, Politics and Change; Tomorrowland at 40, in Rethinking Los Angeles; From the Shards, in To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11.
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