 | @quot;No One Helped@quot;: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy Subjects: Genovese Catherine –1964; Murder in mass media; Murder -- New York (State) -- New York; Bystander effect -- New York (State) -- New York; Marcia M. Gallo provides a sensitive and multifaceted exploration of one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese. Marcia M. Gallo received her Ph.D. with distinction from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2004. She has worked as Field Director for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco; she also worked in social justice philanthropy in New York. Currently, she is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she teaches courses on race, gender and sexuality as well as oral history and public history. Her first book, Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement, won the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her second book, "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography) |
