Margaret Louise Cruikshank (born 1940) is an American lesbian feminist writer and academic.
[4] During the 1970s, Cruikshank played an active role in the explosion of lesbian feminist politics and culture.
[4] Upon moving to San Francisco, Cruikshank worked as resource director for the short-lived Gay National Educational Switchboard; an organization that provided information through a toll-free telephone number.
In August 1980 she became head of a small program of the Continuing Education department at the University of San Francisco.
This work by Cruikshank led to CCSF opening their Castro/Valencia Campus, and in 1982 she was the first woman to teach the college's lesbian and gay literature class, which she taught until 1996.
[4] Also at City College of San Francisco, Cruikshank taught an introductory women's studies course and lesbian and gay literature.
Her introduction to working with older people came when she did a graduate studies internship in gerontology at San Francisco State University, where she received an M.A.
[6] In her papers, donated to the UCLA Library Special Collections, Cruikshank explains the three anthologies, their genesis and their inclusions.
After her move, she began to teach women's studies at the University of Maine, where she is also affiliated with the Center on Aging (1997–present).
She is a recipient of two Fulbright Fellowship senior specialist awards to conduct seminars and lectures on women and aging.