Hester Eisenstein is a professor of sociology and Women’s Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  Her books include Contemporary Feminist Thought (1983);  Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State (1996); and Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World (Paradigm Publishers, 2009). She is Vice Chair of the Queens College chapter of the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York, the faculty-staff union.  She has taught at Yale University, Barnard College (Columbia University), and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and served as a “femocrat” in the state government of New South Wales, Australia.