Section Announcements

2009 Section Award Winners Announced!

The section would like to congratulate the award and honorable mention recipients. Details on the “Awards” page.

Nominations Committee Seeks Candidates

The Sex & Gender Section Nominations Committee seeks candidates for the 2010 elections, to fill the following offices: Section Chair; Two Section Council Members; Two members of the Sally Hacker Student Paper Award Committee. The Nominations committee will discuss all names that have been suggested, and will come up with a list of candidates.

Self-nominations are welcome. Send suggested candidates' names, affiliations and e-mail addresses to Mike Messner (messner@usc.edu) by October 23, 2009.

New Books by Section Members

Barclay, Scott, Mary Bernstein, and Anna-Maria Marshall (eds.). 2009. Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law. New York: NYU Press.

Joffe, Carole. Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. Forthcoming, December 2009.

Melzer, Scott. 2009. Gun Crusaders: The NRA’s Culture War. New York University Press.

Messerschmidt, James W. Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics: Unmasking the Bush Dynasty and Its War Against Iraq. Boulder, CO.: Paradigm Publishers. Forthcoming January 2010.

Mukerji, Chandra. 2009. Impossible Engineering: Technology and Terrotoriality along the Canal du Midi. Princeton University Press.

Richman, Kimberly D. 2009. Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law. New York University Press.

Rueschemeyer, Marilyn and Sharon Wolchik (eds.). 2009. Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Indiana University Press.

Sutton, Barbara. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming Spring 2010.

Walby, Sylvia. 2009. Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities.London: Sage.

Whittier, Nancy. 2009. The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State. Oxford University Press.

New Journal Articles/Book Chapters by Section Members

Bakehorn, Jill. 2009. “Women-Made Pornography” in Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry, 2nd ed. Edited by Ronald Weitzer. New York: Routledge.

Cortese, Daniel and Pamela Ling. “Enticing the New Lad: Masculinity as a Product of Consumption in Tobacco Industry-Developed Lifestyle Magazines.” Men and Masculinities. Forthcoming.

Frank Fox, Mary, Gerhard Sonnert, and Irina Nikiforova. 2009. “Successful Programs for Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering: Adapting versus Adopting the Institutional Environment.” Research in Higher Education 50: 333-353.

Kaufman, Joanne M. 2009. “Gendered Responses to Serious Strain: The Argument for a General Strain Theory of Deviance.” Justice Quarterly 26(3):410-444.

Teo, Youyenn and Piper, Nicola. 2009. “Foreigners in our homes: linking migration and family policies in Singapore.” Population, Space and Place 15(2): 147-159.

Teo, Youyenn. 2009. “Gender Disarmed: How Gendered Policies Produce Gender-Neutral Politics in Singapore.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 34(3): 533-558.

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