Sociology of Women
It Hurts Down There
Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.
Defending Women's Rights in Europe
Comparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union.
Living on Your Own
An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.
Imagining Black Womanhood
Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.
Mothers Who Deliver
New directions in thinking about mothering.
The Culture of Teenage Mothers
Explores teen mothers’ perceptions of their situations and the social stigma that affects them.
Governing the Female Body
A feminist and Foucauldian analysis of a variety of emerging gendered discourses.
The Anorexic Self
Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.
Heads above Water
An in-depth exploration of women's lives after a natural disaster.