Jacklyn Cock is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and an Honorary Research Professor in the Society, Work and Development Research Unit (SWOP). She has written extensively on environment, gender and militarisation issues. Her most recent previous book is The War Against Ourselves: Nature, Power and Justice (2007). She is best known for Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of Exploitation (1980).
