Lana F. Rakow (born April 17, 1952) is a professor emerita of communication at the University of North Dakota and author of Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (1992).
Rakow was born in North Dakota,[1] where she spent a majority of her life as a student and, later, as a professor, writer, and researcher.
The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.
The focus of Lana Rakow's research deals largely with subjects such as communication, feminist theory (the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse.
One of her major works, Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (1992), combines all three of these subjects.
Rakow's book, based on her dissertation at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Chaimpaign, looks at the way that women use telephones as a form of communication.