Carole McCann PhD is a professor in Gender and Women's Studies and American Studies

American studies

American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the United States. It traditionally incorporates the study of history, literature, and critical theory, but also includes fields as diverse as law, art, the media, film, religious studies, urban...

 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

McCann is the author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 and co-author of Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives along with Seung-Kyung Kim.
The Feminist Theory Reader was updated with new material and rereleased by Routledge. Edition 2 was published July 2009.
It remains a foundational text for gender and women's studies courses.