Biography:

Barrie Thorne has been a professor for over thirty years. She began teaching in sociology departments and later in more interdisciplinary fields such as women’s studies. She has also taught feminist studies and the studies of men and women in society. Barrie Thorne is currently a professor of women’s studies and sociology at the University of California Berkley. She has been a professor there for the past twelve years and currently teaches there today.
Barrie Thorne was born in 1942 and she was raised in Logan, Utah and her parents were Mormon pioneers. (In 1980, she was excommunicated from the Mormon church for her feminist activities, and this did not bother her.) Her father was the vice president at Utah State University. Her mother had a PhD in economics which she received in 1938.
Barrie’s partner is Peter Lyman, who is the University Librarian at Berkeley. Together they have raised their two children, a boy and a girl. In 1987 when their children were ten and fourteen, they moved from Lansing, Michigan to Southern California. Later, their son went to graduate school at John Hopkins School of Public Health, and their daughter went to Bryn Mawr.

Sources
Sommer, Julia. “A Feminists Feminist” (1996).