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12 Women & Crim. Just. 1 (2000-2001)

handle is hein.journals/wwcj12 and id is 1 raw text is: Born Feminist Joanne Belknap I was born in Denver, Colorado in 1958 and lived there, the fourth of five children, until I was seven, and then lived in rural Kentucky, on the farm my father was born and raised on, until I was 16. At that point my family returned to Colorado because my father had quite literally lost the farm, this time to live in a cabin in the Rocky Mountains, three miles up a dirt road from Highway 40. I finished my last two years of high school in rural Colorado, and then went to the University of Colorado. I always say I would have been a juvenile delinquent (or may be I should say a worse or detected juvenile delinquent) if it hadn't been for school athletics. I got in at the beginning of Title IX, and so in addition to my dedication to it now for all women and girls, I am personally grateful for it and believe sports teams helped me stay in high school and out of more trouble. I loved the team sports (like field hockey), but also enjoyed track and racing cross-country skiing. I was never a great athlete, but sports have always been important to me. I can't remember a time that I wasn't angry about life being unfair. I don't remember not being aware of sexism and racism, although I know I didn't always have those words for these phenomena. Given my obsession with the injustices of the world and in my own exis- tence, I guess it's not surprising that after changing majors from physi- cal therapy, to physical education, to political science in college, that I landed in criminology. My first interest in criminology/criminal jus- tice was in a political science course, Urban Public Policy, the end of my junior year. I am still in touch with the professor, Dennis Ekhart, who is now a colleague at the University of Colorado. It was in his Joanne Belknap, PhD, is Associate Professor, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Colorado. Women & Criminal Justice, Vol. 12(1) 2000 0 2000 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. I

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