Valerie Bryson is Professor Emerita of Politics (ie officially retired but still academically active) at the University of Huddersfield.  She has published extensively on feminist theory and politics, and her work has been translated into Arabic, Russian, Japanese and Greek. Her books include Feminist Political Theory (latest, extensively revised, edition 2016), Gender and the Politics of Time (2007) and Feminist Debates (1999). She taught and researched at a number of UK universities before joining the University of Huddersfield in 1992. She is currently working on a new book: Western Feminism: contemporary challenges and debates.