Juliet Mitchell FBA is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Cambridge and London, and the Founder Director of the Centre for Gender Studies in the University of Cambridge. Her many books include: Psychoanalysis & Feminism, Women: The Longest Revolution, Woman's Estate, Mad Men and Medusas, Siblings: Sex and Violence, and, most recently, Fratriarchy. She is also a Fellow of both the British Academy and the International Psychoanalytical Association, and in 2022 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Metz-Lorraine (France).

The quality of Mitchell's thinking is revealed by her ability both to be critical of certain aspects of the women's movement, and yet keep herself free of the bitterness and disillusion of radicals of an older generation.