Zoe Strimpel

Summary

Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British writer. She is the author of three books on gender and relationships [1] and writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph.[2] She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's A Point Of View and presents a podcast on culture called Hyped!, with the historian Tom Stammers.

Zoe Strimpel
Born
Zoe Strimpel

8 July 1982 (1982-07-08) (age 41)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materJesus College, Cambridge
Wolfson College, Cambridge
University of Sussex
Occupation(s)Journalist, Academic (Gender Studies)
Years active2010-present

Early life and education edit

Strimpel grew up in a small town in New England.[3] She attended Bedales School, then studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge.[4], where she completed an MPhil in Gender Studies. She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s.[5]

In November 2020, she became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969.[5]

Career edit

Author edit

Strimpel is the author of What the Hell is He Thinking?: All the Questions You've Ever Asked About Men Answered,[6][7] which was published in July 2010. It is aimed at providing an insight into men's thinking, researched by Strimpel interviewing men. Her second book, The Man Diet: One Woman's Quest to End Bad Romance was published on 22 December 2011.[8][7] Both books received positive reviews from critics.[citation needed]

Strimpel is the author of an academic book, Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of 'the Single', which charts the emergence of the dating industry in Britain in the final decades of the 20th century against the backdrop of rapidly changing gender politics, class and sexuality.[9]

Journalist edit

From 2006, Strimpel was the author of the Girl about town column in The London Paper,[10] a now-defunct free daily newspaper. From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM, a business-orientated London daily newspaper.[11] She has written on relations between men and women for Elle,[12] the Sunday Times Style magazine,[10] and HuffPost.[13] She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle,[14] and writes for The Spectator,[15] and UnHerd.[16]

She writes a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph.[2][17]

Commentator edit

Strimpel has appeared on radio and television as a commentator to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity.[18][19][20] Her piece in The Sunday Telegraph on the #MeToo movement[21] led to appearances on the BBC[22] and Al Jazeera[23] to discuss the matter. She appears frequently on BBC Radio 4's A Point of View.[24][25][26] and has presented BBC Radio 4's Analysis episodes.[27][28] She appeared in the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age in 2018 to discuss online dating apps.[29][30] At the beginning of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Strimpel argued on Bari Weiss’ blog for a hawkish response by NATO.[31]

References edit

  1. ^ "University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies Annual Report". University of Cambridge. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b "The Telegraph, Articles".
  3. ^ Strimpel, Zoe. "Like many Jews, I always feel like an outsider". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  4. ^ The Wolfson Review, 2012-2013 no. 37, Wolfson College, Cambridge, p. 32
  5. ^ a b "Dr Zoe Strimpel". University of Warwick - Department of History. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (30 November 2011). The Man Diet: One woman's quest to end bad romance. Harper Collins. ISBN 9781847563064.
  7. ^ a b "Zoe Strimpel". www.amazon.co.uk.
  8. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (1 July 2010). What the Hell is He Thinking?: All the Questions You've Ever Asked About Men Answered. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141049380.
  9. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (5 March 2020). Seeking Love in Modern Britain Gender, Dating and the Rise of 'the Single;. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350095939.
  10. ^ a b "The People's Book Prize Website" (PDF). 20 April 2010.
  11. ^ Gunter, Joel (19 May 2008). "Zoe Strimpel joins City AM". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Elle Magazine, Article". 27 April 2015.
  13. ^ "HuffPost, Articles". HuffPost.
  14. ^ "Zoe Strimpel (articles)". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  15. ^ "The Spectator, Articles".
  16. ^ "UnHerd, Articles".
  17. ^ Honeybun, Michelle (20 October 2016). "The Burkini Is A Sign Of Religious Oppression And Not A Fashion Statement". Forbes. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  18. ^ Dunant, Sarah (Host) (1 October 2018). The Dating Game (Radio broadcast). When Greeks Flew Kites. BBC.
  19. ^ Gittos, Luke (14 October 2018). "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby". Battle of Ideas. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  20. ^ Buerk, Michael (Host) (25 July 2018). The Morality of Diversity (Radio broadcast). Moral Maze. BBC.
  21. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (17 October 2017). "I've had enough of MeToo 'hashtag feminism' and its intellectual laziness". The Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  22. ^ Murray, Jenni (Host) (18 October 2017). The Problem With #MeToo (Radio broadcast). Woman's Hour. BBC.
  23. ^ Hasan, Mehdi (Host) (10 October 2018). Head to Head - Has #MeToo failed? (Television production). Al Jazeera.
  24. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (11 September 2020). Having the 'Wrong' Politics (Radio broadcast). A Point of View. BBC.
  25. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (11 June 2023). "Beyoncé, Beauty and the Pursuit of Youth". A Point of View. BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  26. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (9 September 2023). "My Love Affair with the Mysterious". A Point of View. BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  27. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (23 July 2023). "How far should reparative justice go?". Analysis. BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  28. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (23 March 2023). "Is Britain exceptional?". Analysis. BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  29. ^ Sales, Nancy Jo (Director) (10 September 2018). Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (Television production). HBO.
  30. ^ Johnson, Eric (19 September 2018). "'Swiped' HBO documentary - director Nancy Jo Sales explains why swiping on Tinder is addictive". recode.com. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  31. ^ Strimpel, Zoe (24 February 2022). "America Is Afraid of War. Putin Knows It". Common Sense. Retrieved 24 February 2022.