Pauline Bart, a feminist sociologist who wrote with rigor about gender inequities in healthcare and violence against women, died on Oct. 8 at a hospice facility in Raleigh, NC. She was 91.

Dr. Bart documented the ways in which society’s gender biases had harmed women. While teaching women’s studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, Dr. Bart began to focus on rape because so many of her female students told her they had been assaulted, many by men they knew.

Dr. Bart was the co-editor with Eileen Geil Moran of Violence Against Women: The Bloody Footprints (1993), and the co-author with Patricia H. O’Brien of Stopping Rape: Successful Survival Strategies (1985). She and Linda Frankel wrote The Student Sociologist’s Handbook, first published in 1971.