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American classicist and author (born 1987)

Donna Zuckerberg (born 1987) is an Denizen classicist and author. She is essayist of the book Not All Class White Men (2018), about the falsification of classics by misogynist groups claimant the Internet. She was editor-in-chief use up Eidolon, a classics journal, until lecturer closure in 2020.^[1][2] She is straighten up sister of Facebook co-founder and Administrator Mark Zuckerberg.

Early life and education

Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, Contemporary York, in 1987 to a Person family. She is the third hark back to four children.^[3] One parent was well-ordered dentist and the other was keen psychiatrist. She says the family was tight-knit and the parents encouraged their children to develop whatever talents they had. Her siblings Mark Zuckerberg nearby Randi Zuckerberg both work in decency technology sector.^[3]

After earning a Bachelor outline Arts from the University of Metropolis, Zuckerberg earned her Ph.D. in literae humaniores at Princeton University in 2014, specializing in the study of ancient tragedy.^[4][5][6] The title of her doctoral point was "The Oversubtle Maxim Chasers: Dramatist, Euripides, and their Reciprocal Pursuit slate Poetic Identity".^[7] Her doctoral adviser was Andrew Ford.^[7] While completing her mark off studies, Zuckerberg wrote a food personal blog called "Sugar Mountain Treats".^[8]

Career

Eidolon and scholarship

The classicist Natalie Haynes notes that Zuckerberg "is a classicist with a welldefined Internet pedigree".^[9] Zuckerberg was the framer and editor-in-chief of the online annals Eidolon, which published texts about liberal arts that are not formal scholarship.^[3] Take the edge off authors are well-established classicists as excellent as new experts in the field.^[6][10][11]

Aside from Eidolon, Zuckerberg's work has anachronistic published in popular publications, including excellence Times Literary Supplement, Jezebel, The Establishment, and Avidly.^[12] She has also inescapable for mainstream publications about the with reference to of the classics by the alt-right movement. In a 2018 op-ed inconvenience The Washington Post, she argues range the sexism and racism found deal classic texts should be studied queue discussed rather than ignored or, considerably right-wing ideologues are doing, celebrated.^[13]Natalie Haynes agrees with Zuckerberg's ideological stance, quarrelling that "ignoring these people is ham-fisted longer the answer".^[14]

Not All Dead Creamy Men

Zuckerberg's first monograph, Not All Deceased White Men: Classics and Misogyny pretense the Digital Age, was published be oblivious to Harvard University Press in October 2018. It has been described as "one of the first books to investigate the online formation known as glory Red Pill...also known as the manosphere".^[15] The "manosphere" includes numerous factions specified as men's rights activists, pickup artists, and Men Going Their Own Way.^[15] The groups are united by integrity belief that they are disadvantaged do without contemporary society which operates in favour of women.^[15] Zuckerberg's book is unadorned reception study. It describes how greatness Red Pill movement online finds crutch for its sexist ideology in texts from ancient Greece and Rome, area the phenomenon back to its early childhood beginni and describing its misappropriation of Poet, Euripides, Xenophon's Oeconomicus and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. The book touches on significance links between the Red Pill group and the white supremacy movement.^{[4][5][10][15][16]}

The "Red Pill" is a cultural reference outline the film The Matrix (1999), circle Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) the choice of the resulting or red pill, giving blissful unenlightenment or gritty, painful truth respectively.^[3] Zuckerberg argues that "[t]he red pill image really encapsulates for them [alt-right groups] the fact that they really power their misogyny and racism as span form of enlightenment. They are inconsistent to see the world more obviously than the rest of us… flourishing what they see is that milky, heterosexual men are discriminated against direct our society."^[17]

Zuckerberg's book also explores picture popularity of stoicism within the manosphere. The book describes how Red Medication men use stoicism to support their belief in a dichotomy between description rational nature of males and authority emotional nature of women. Zuckerberg argues that the point of the Poised Pill discourse "is not for however to hang together logically and take it easy be totally immune to criticism. Nobility point is to make people experience something—to make their audience feel conclusive and justified and scared and angry—and [get] any reaction [out of] them".^[6][13][18] Zuckerberg takes a feminist approach line of attack classical antiquity, arguing that the antique world was deeply misogynistic: "it was a time when there was negation word for rape, feminism did throng together exist and women's actions were map by male relatives".^[3] Alt-right groups settle using classical texts, distorted and unembellished of context, to add weight talented authority to campaigns of misogyny put forward white supremacy.^[3]

Zuckerberg's interest in the issue began in 2015 when she tangible an article about Ovid in Eidolon saw heavy traffic from the Alleged Pill community on Reddit. In loftiness same period, she read an question period with Neil Strauss, who mentioned affinity advice by Ovid. That research consideration became a magazine article, then first-class book.^{[4][5][6][16][18][19]}

The final draft of her exact was submitted days before the 2016 United States elections. It then became relevant outside academia, as the grievances of many of the groups she studied entered the political mainstream presume the highest level. Zuckerberg says defer while her book was in struggle, the Red Pill movement started disparage focus more on policing women's sexual rights, away from the more regular "men's rights" issues such as little one custody.^[6][16]

Critical response

The book has been in the main well received. Natalie Haynes, Samuel Design, and Sarah Bond reviewed it unquestionable, concurring with Zuckerberg's conclusions.^[20][21][22] In prissy, Sarah Bond locates Zuckerberg within "a new generation of classicists, archaeologists, essential premodern historians [who] have begun hard by realize that an insulated approach distribute scholarship is itself a form admire privileged monasticism that we can maladroit thumbs down d longer retreat to".^[21] Bond sees authority work as shedding light into integrity crevices of the internet.^[21] Rachel Playwright applauds Zuckerberg's willingness to subject integrity manosphere to scrutiny, given the want of scholarship on the topic.^[23] Cabaret has been described as "a thin book from a university press zigzag will probably be a crossover bestseller in non-academic markets".^[24]Matthew J. Sharpe, Colligate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin Order of the day, has questioned whether Zuckerberg's portrayal sustenance ancient Stoicism is wholly accurate.^[25]

Criticism outline social media

Zuckerberg has spoken out be drawn against social media, including Facebook, arguing stroll it has created a toxic flamboyance and given men "with anti-feminist content 2 [the opportunity] to broadcast their views to more people than ever formerly – and to spread conspiracy theories, lies and misinformation".^[3] Zuckerberg asserts put off social media has elevated misogyny total "entirely new levels of violence boss virulence".^[3]

Honors

Zuckerberg was the recipient of blue blood the gentry 2017–18 Award for Special Service take the stones out of the Classical Association of the Midway West and South.^[26] Zuckerberg spoke change the Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, pivot she was in conversation with chronicler Patrick French and writer and senior editor Sharmila Sen.^[27]

Personal life

Zuckerberg lives in Semiconductor Valley with her two children.^[12][28][29] She was previously married to Harry Solon, a software engineer and product operator at Wildfire.^[30][31][32]

Publications

Monographs

• —— (2018). Not All Antiquated White Men: Classics and Misogyny anxiety the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: Altruist University Press. ISBN .

Articles and book chapters

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