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Section Announcements Grad students! Please join the new facebook
group for graduate student members of the Section on Sex and Gender!
For more details contact grad rep Anna Sorensen at asorensen@umail.ucsb.edu Looking for short video clips to use in your sociology classroom? The Sociological Cinema (www.thesociologicalcinema.com) is an online resource for instructors of sociology who are interested in incorporating (short) video clips into their teaching. The heart of the website is an online video database that busy sociology instructors can search by sociological themes; all videos are accompanied by a concise summary and analysis. By far, our largest collection of clips are related to the field of Sex & Gender. Check us out and feel free to contribute your own video clips to the database! On behalf of the ASA Task Force on Sociology
and Global Climate Change I am writing to all Section Chairs to invite
input for our work. Our Task Force is charged with providing sociological
analyses of this vital subject, including but not limited to the causes
and impacts of climate change and efforts at mitigation and adaptation.
We are seeking input from across the discipline, as we recognize that
differing specialty areas can offer valuable insights on various aspects
of climate change. We are particularly interested in learning what issues
regarding climate change are of interest to your Section, and what perspectives
within your field might be valuable in addressing these issues.
I would therefore appreciate it if you would share this message with
your Section members. If you have a Section listserv, posting this request
would be ideal since we are anxious to receive input as soon as possible.
If not, a notice in your next newsletter would be appreciated. Conversely,
if you and your fellow officers would like to send us input on behalf
of your Section, that would be welcome as well. This email account asacctaskforce@gmail.com has been set up specifically for receiving input
to the Task Force, and all members of the Steering Committee with have
access to it. We look forward to hearing from your Section. On the theme for the 2012 ASA meeting:
"Real Utopias: emancipatory projects, institutional designs, possible
futures." I am hopeful that many of the sections will find this
an interesting, even exciting, topic to explore. I thought that it might
be a good idea if I prepared a memo which could be included in at least
some of the newsletters of sections (of course, only if the editor felt
this was appropriate or useful) so that people would have a better sense
of how I am thinking about the program. I welcome proposals from people
active in ASA sections for different kinds of thematic panels, and of
course I would be delighted if some of the sections explored aspects
of the real utopias theme in the sessions they directly organize. I
think the intellectual terrain of the Sex and Gender section is an especially
interesting intellectual space for this kind of discussion. I have
posted a full version of the memo on my website in any case at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~ ASA Section-in-formation: The Consumer Studies Research Network (CSRN) is seeking to become an official section of the American Sociological Association. If you are interested in supporting this petition effort, copy and paste the statement below and email it to csrn2011@camden.rutgers.edu. "In sending this email, I certify that I am an ASA member and that I pledge to join the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption section as a dues-paying member for at least the next two membership years once it commences." If someone is sincerely intending on becoming an ASA member by Jan 1, 2011, they may sign also. Sincerely, Patricia Arend.
2010 Section Award Winners Announced! The section would like to congratulate the award and honorable mention recipients. Details on the Awards page.
New Books by Section Members Almeling, Rene. 2011. Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm. University of California Press. LaRossa, Ralph. 2011. Of War and Men: World War II in the
Press.Garey, Anita and Karen Hansen, Eds. 2011. At the heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.LaRossa, Ralph. 2011. Of War and Men: World War II in the Guenther, Katja M. 2010. Making
Their Place: Feminism after Socialism in Eastern Germany. Stanford:
Stanford University Press. For more information, please see http://www.sup.org/book.cgi? Keating, AnaLouise and Gloria González-López, eds. 2011. “Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own.” University of Texas Press. (For the table of contents, an excerpt, and information on how to order the book (at a discount!), please see: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/keabri.html) Limoncelli, Stephanie.
2010. The Politics of Trafficking:The First International Movement
to Combat the Sexual Exploitation of Women. Stanford University
Press. More information about this book may be found at http://www.sup.org/book.cgi? Messerschmidt, James W. Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics: Unmasking the Bush Dynasty and Its War Against Iraq. Boulder, CO.: Paradigm Publishers. January 2010. Shapiro, Eve. 2010. Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age. Routledge Press. Sutton, Barbara. Bodies in
Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Spring 2010. To become a member of the Sex and Gender Section, you may visit the ASA website at www.asanet.org and add a section to your existing membership or you contact the ASA Membership/Customer Service staff by e-mail membership@asanet.org or by calling 202-383-9005. Page last updated September 19, '11 |
