Mab Segrest | |
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Born | Mabelle Massey Segrest February 20, 1949 Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | Duke University (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Scholar, Writer |
Notable work | Memoir of a Race Traitor |
Mabelle Massey Segrest, known as Mab Segrest (born February 20, 1949), is an American lesbian feminist, writer, scholar and activist associated with the American South. Segrest is best known for her 1994 autobiographical work Memoir of a Race Traitor, which won the Editor's Choice Lambda Literary Award. Segrest is the former Fuller-Matthai Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College.