Pauline Bart, feminist sociologist who studied violence against women, dies at 91

Pauline Bart, a sociologist whose pathbreaking studies of women’s depression, gender inequality and violence against women made her a bridge between second-wave feminism and the historically male-dominated academy, died Oct. 8 at a hospice center in Raleigh, N.C. She was 91.

The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, said her daughter, Melinda Schlesinger.