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2009
ASA Meeting Information
I. Invited Sessions
1. Gender & Power in Global Perspective: A Forum on the Work of Raewyn Connell
Organizer: Michael Messner
Session Description: For more than two decades, the work of Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell has been at the forefront of gender scholarship. Drawing from her own empirical work and that of others, Connell introduced concepts that capture gender’s multiplicity and dynamism in life histories, institutional gender regimes and societal gender orders. In recent years, Connell has turned her attention to examining dynamics of the global gender order. In this session, a distinguished group of invited gender scholars will take Connell’s work as a point of departure for discussing their own strategies for thinking about gender and power in global or transnational perspective.
Michael Messner
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies
Department of Sociology
University of Southern California
Office: KAP 352
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2539
Phone: (213) 740-8848
E-mail: messner@usc.edu
2. Sexualities, Gender and the State
(Co-sponsored with the Sexualities Section)
Co-Organizers: Kristen Schilt and Tey Meadow
Session Description:While feminist research on the connections between gender ideologies and state regulation enjoys a long and complex history, only in recent years have scholars looked systematically at the ways in which sexuality, sexual norms and heteronormativity interact with and reinforce modern statehood. The invited papers in this session interrogate connections between popular and scientific concepts of gender and sexuality, and the practical ways states use them to make policy, and to make citizens.
Kristen Schilt
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago
Social Sciences 320, 1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 702-7753
Email: kschilt@uchicago.edu
Tey Meadow
Doctoral Candidate
New York University
Email: sm1286@nyu.edu
II. Open Submissions
3. Movements and Identities: Transnational Feminist Approaches
Co-organizers: Orit Avishai and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Session Description: This session invites papers that examine the gendered, sexualized, classed and racialized structures, activities, and cultural repertoires of movements that challenge thestate and other structures of governance, the identities that they facilitate, and their modes of organizing and mobilization. Papers may address, but are not limited to, the gendered and sexualized dimensions of immigration, religion, and contemporary global struggles (such as struggles over basic resources like water, militarism, the AIDS epidemic, and global warming).
Orit Avishai
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Fordham University
Email: orit.avishai@gmail.com
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: daniellehidalgo@mac.com
4. Gender, Bodies and Health: Negotiating and Contesting the “Healthy” Body
Organizer: Shari Dworkin
Session Description:This session invites papers that explore the ways in which “healthy” gendered bodies are produced, challenged and contested across a variety of social institutions (e.g. medicine, work, sport, and media). Papers may examine a range of issues including (but not limited to): the medicalized body, the arenas in which neoliberal ideals intersect with the call to health and/or biomedicalization; how gender relations shape and are shaped by media representations of men’s and women’s health, mental health, or well-being; how masculinity and femininity structure the promises and limits of health; the ways in which the discourses and/or practices of public health and/or medicine paradoxically structure gendered bodies and healthy living. Interdisciplinary approaches and multiple methods are welcomed.
Shari Dworkin
Associate Professor
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
3333 California St., #LHts-455
San Francisco, CA 94143-0612
Tel: (415) 476-9487
Email: sharidworkin@earthlink.net
5. Gender and New Immigrant Communities
Organizer: Stephanie Nawyn
Session Description: Immigrant communities have developed in new places and in new ways, and these new communities (be they geographical or imagined) are inextricably linked with gender. This session seeks papers that examine the ways that gender operates within interpersonal interactions, social institutions, and macro-structures to shape theexperiences of international migrants, and the movement of people to and relations within new immigrant communities. Topics may include transnational communities, new immigrant destinations, or new immigrant social movements.
Stephanie Nawyn
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
434B Berkey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1111
Tel: (517) 353-7747
Email: nawyn@msu.edu
6. Race/Ethnicity and Gender
Co-organizers: Belinda Robnett and Rebecca Klatch
Session Description:This session focuses on research that analyzes the intersection of race/ethnicity and gender. We are interested in papers that examine the ways in which constructions of gender and race/ethnicity influence and are influenced by interpersonal relationships, institutions and organizations, and/or the cultural/symbolic realm.
Belinda Robnett
Associate Professor, Sociology
School of Social Sciences
University of California - Irvine
4297 Social Sciences Plaza B
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
Tel: (949) 824-1648, 2376
Email: brobnett@uci.edu
Rebecca Klatch
Professor, Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
484 Social Science Building
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
Tel: (858) 534-4629
Email: rklatch@ucsd.edu
7. Gender, the Economy and Work
(Co-sponsored with the Section on Economic Sociology)
Organizer: Mary Blair-Loy
Session Description:This session will explore how gender, the economy, and work (paid and unpaid) are closely intertwined. Gender and families impact the economy and work in various ways. At the same time, social location with respect to the economy and work construct the experience of gender and family responsibilities.
Mary Blair-Loy
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
401 Social Science Building
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533
Email: blair-loy@ucsd.edu
III. Roundtables
8. Sex and Gender Section Roundtables
Organizer: Jennifer A. Reich
Jennifer A. Reich
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Criminology
University of Denver
2000 E. Asbury Avenue, Sturm Hall 432
Denver CO 80208
Tel: (303) 871-2066
Email: jreich@du.edu
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