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agreed to continue as Executive Director employment differently? How are these By: Marlese Durr for an additional year (May 2006). The patterns changing over time?" Executive Council has been discussing Our meeting (Marriott Courtyard, 21 SWS President forming an ad hoc Search Committee, North Juniper Street, Philadelphia, his year has been busy as we prepare whose task will be to help us identify can- August 13-16, 2005) begins what we hope Tfor our Summer meeting. didates for the position of Executive will become an institutionalized, yearly, Unfortunately, Diane Wysocki's spouse's Director. You will be hearing more on this joint session between ASA/SWS illness would not allow her to remain as at the summer meeting. /SSSP/ABS. During our Winter Meeting in our new Executive Director. On behalf of Since our last newsletter, we have worked Miami, all of the Presidents, including SWS I thank her for her service and work very diligently with other associations to ASA President-Elect Cynthia Fuchs on the IT committee during her short time make changes within our society. For Epstein, met to discuss this first joint ses- with us. She remains dedicated to SWS. example, SWS has signed the letter sion, which will span across our meetings Thank You Diane! Nancy Miller has protesting the 4uforgovernment website. in Philadelphia. The panels planned for Susan Chase has worked on discrimina- this year are: Social Security (ASA), The contents... tion in the tenure process for members, and Elimination of Gender & Race statistics by Mary Vinoche, Ezster Hargitti, Laura the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and Student Concerns...... pg 5 Fingerson, Barbara Duckles, Marita Attacks on Academic Freedom (SSSP). McComiskey, Joan Biddle, Judith Lorber, Nancy Naples has organized the panel on Job Opportunities...... pg 5 Diane Wysocki, Nancy Miller and Nancy The Elimination of Gender & Race Naples have developed a website policy Statistics. Panelists for this session are Members’ Bookshelf...... pg 6 which you will hear more about at this Philip N. Cohen, Paula England, and Heidi People and Places ...... pg 7 summer's meeting. Nancy Naples and the Hartmann. Heidi Hartmann will represent Scholarship and Human Rights Committee SWS on the Social Security Panel. We New Officers ...... pg 8 have responded to the Discontinuation of thank you Heidi! I also wish to thank the Women Workers Data Series (WWS) and many members who responded to my New Committee Members . . pg 8 noted our opposition to the proposed dis- request for names of persons to serve as continuation of the WWS of the Current panelists representing SWS. Barbara Call for Proposals ...... pg 12 Employment Statistics (CES) survey. Risman has been asked to represent us a They have done a wonderful job in their disccusant/respondent on the Solidarity Local and Regional...... pg 13 response. I quote from their letter: "We Panel of the SOCIOLOGISTS WITHOUT consider the data collected in this series BORDERS meeting whose theme this year indispensable for several reasons. Without is WHERE SOCIOLOGY MEETS SOLI- next issue... these data, it will be impossible for sociolo- DARITIES, August 12, 2005 at the Submissions Due. . .September 15 gists and economists to answer important Philadelphia Sheraton Society Hotel. Other Publication Date. . . . October 15 questions regarding women's employment panelists are: Edward Murguia, Chair, and job loss across the business cycle: Section on Latina/o Sociology; Benjamin Editor...... Leslie Hossfeld Where are women acquiring or losing jobs? P. Bowser, President, Association of Black Phone...... (910) 231-6802 How do economic up- or down-turns, eco- Sociologists; and Alberto Moncada, nomic restructuring, and changes in the President, Sociologists Without Borders. Email. . . . [email protected] business cycle affect men and women's ...continued on page 2

SUMMER 2005 VOLUME XXII NO. 2 Philly...continued from page 1 In The Conservative Counter-Revolution), Our own Cathy Zimmer is the Thomas Frank (What's The Matter With Secretary/Treasurer of Sociologists Kansas). So we will be busy! Without Borders. To accommodate this schedule of co- Published and distributed by Sociologists for On the heels of the many e-mails and sponsorships, our meeting this year will Women in Society, an international news reports surrounding Harvard, women feature special-topic breakfasts and lunch- organization of more than 1,000 social scientists, faculty, undergraduate and graduate and work, Barbara Risman and I have eon panels designed to examine our aca- students, sociology practitioners and independent worked with ASA to co-sponsor a special demic lives. Organized by Abby Ferber scholars who share a dedication to social equality. session entitled Women & Science: and Joan Spade, the chairs of the Task Editor ...... Leslie Hossfeld Empirical Responses to the Summer's Force on Feminists Transformation of Graphics Editor ...... Allison Alvarez Controversy. I will act as presider and the Academy, and the Awards Committee, Mary Frank Fox as discussant. In this ses- "The Life-Trajectory of an Academic Sociologists for Women in Society sion, we have decided to cover the three Career" will examine the road to tenure, President...... Marlese Durr President -Elect ...... Christine Bose arguments Summers' made and one that then the slump many women faculty face Past President ...... Nancy Naples extends to race. We will accomplish this after tenure on the road to Full Professor. Vice-President ...... Cathy Zimmer through employing a very interactive Disrupting the Culture of Silence is an Secretary...... Mary Bernstien panel. Each panelist and the discussant open discussion for SWS members to Tresurer...... Cynthia Anderson will speak for 5-7 minutes. Then we will examine the various issues many of face in Deputy Treasurer...... Kathleen Slobin open for dialogue. Panelists will end with a balancing our personal and professional Executive Officer...... Nancy Miller summary statement lasting no more than lives. Some of the issues we will discuss Standing Committee Chairs: five minutes. Panelists for this session are: include battling eating disorders, feeling Awards ...... Joan Spade Cecilia Ridgeway (University Implicit like a fraud, dealing with difficult col- Career Development ...... Denise Copleton Bias, Performance, And Perceived Ability leagues, etc. The goal of this discussion is Discrimination Support ...... Susan Chase In The Workplace); Gail Simmons (The to provide a venue where we can support International...... Manisha Desai Adaptive Landscape Of Academe: Why each other and share strategies. Membership...... Cathy Zimmer Female Scholarly Fitness Is Not Recognizing and Rewarding Women's Publications ...... Lisa Brush Publications ...... Susan Hinze Maximized); Bonnie Thornton Dill Work in the Academy , sponsored by the Social Action ...... Virginia Rutter (Multiplied Jeopardies: Race, Gender, Awards Committee, will examine the nom- Nominations ...... Nancy Naples Genes And Science(?); Marta L. Wayne ination process for academic awards, why Gender & Society Editor . . . Christine Williams (Vive la variance? On Genetic Differences women are less likely to nominate them- Book Review Editor ...... Barbara Ryan In Science Aptitude Between The selves and other women for awards, and Student Representative . . . . . Marcia Hernandez Genders); and Jerry Jacobs, (Limiting The how to better market our achievements. Material for publication (including advertise- Limitless Academic Work Load). Using this meeting format allows all of us ments) should be submitted to Networknews Our co-sponsored session with SSSP is to hear Joan Acker our 2004 Feminist Editor: Leslie Hossfeld, Department of entitled Attacks on Academic Freedom, Lecturer's talk entitled Inequality at Work: Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of moderated by Sherryl Kleinman featuring Gender, Race, and Class in the Workplace. North Carolina at Wilmington speakers/panelists: Michael Schwalbe, The response to the Transgender 101 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC (What Is Academic Freedom?); Melanie session was so great that Betsy Lucal and 28403. Phone: (910) 231-6802. Bush (Contested Meanings Of Academic Tre Wentling have planned Transgender Email: [email protected] Freedom And Diversity); Elyse Crystall 102. This workshop will focus on raising Deadlines for submission: (Malign Neglect: A University's the visibility of low income people and Summer - May 15; Fall - September 15; (Non)Response To Heterosexism); and Persons of Color who experience gender Winter - November 15; Spring - March 15 Ruth Milkman (Academic Realpolitik: identity discrimination; the homeland Attention: For those submitting time sensitive The Case Of The University of California security act and how it has affects trans- materials, target dates for publication and Institute For Labor And Employment). The gendered persons; foster care and state cus- mailing are: Summer-June 15, Fall-October 15, Voting Rights co-sponsored session will tody of children who are gender non-con- Winter-December 15, Spring-April 15. feature Aldon Morris, Donald Cunnigen, forming; prison environment for transgen- Fee schedule for advertisements: Full page- Kenya Covington and Benjamin P. Bower dered persons; and homeless and domestic $200.00; Half-page-$100.00; Quarter-page or discussing the history of voting rights and violence shelters responses and actions less-$50.00; Job announcements-$25.00. potential changes to this precious right. In toward transgendered persons. Invoices will be sent after announcements addition to the joint co-sponsored sessions This is our fourth Sister-to-Sister meeting appear. and women in Science panel, SWS will co- with the Association of Black Sociologists Please send membership and change of address sponsor President Troy Duster's (ABS) and our second co-sponsored recep- information to: SWS Executive Office, Comparative Perspectives on The tion with the American Sociological Department of Sociology, University of Akron, Rightward Turn In US Politics. ASA pre- Association (ASA). This year's reception Akron, OH 44325-1905 senters are Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres theme is Getting to Know Ourselves and Phone: (330) 972-7918; Fax: (330) 972-5377 (The Miner's Canary), Dan T. Carter (From Each Other, reflecting this project's Email: [email protected]. George Wallace To Newt Gingrich: Race ...continued on page 3

2 advancement to a third step in building and All students at the conference are encour- solidifying our relationships. So this year, aged to attend the roundtables and learn as the title denotes, we will get to know about each other's work, offer feedback each other using an ice-breaker format to and join a network of emerging scholars. meet someone we do not know and begin a Meeting, greeting, congratulating each working relationship (i.e., paper for publi- other and just catching up leisurely will cation, conferences, etc.). Barbara occur during our SWS Banquet Awards Risman, Joey Sprague and Bette Banquet at Zanzibar Blue from 7-10 PM Dickerson will chair this activity. (tickets $40.00). Established in 1990, Part two of our Sister-to-Sister meeting is Zanzibar Blue is Philadelphia's first and our Collaborative Opportunities only upscale restaurant and jazz club pro- Roundtables, led by Julia McQuillian. viding a truly unique experience that com- Tables will be organized according to inter- bines the very best in international jazz and est in similar projects thus providing an global cuisine. Located in the historic opportunity to discuss ideas and find Bellevue building, on the prestigious potential collaborators, collaboration sug- Avenue of the Arts, the heart of gestions, and mutual opportunities for Philadelphia's cultural arts and dining dis- increased success. For example, a senior trict, Zanzibar Blue is heavily credited with faculty member may want to start a the revitalization of Philadelphia's research agenda in a new substantive area, nightlife. Zanzibar Blue's stage is home to and a junior person may be deep into that many talented local musicians as well as area but not have the experience to effi- nationally and internationally recognized ciently get through the publication/grant performers. Legends of the jazz world process. Similarly, someone may be teach- Our meetings Nancy Wilson, Jimmy Scott, Shirley Horn, ing an innovative course and want to write Chuck Mangione, Hendricks and Ross and a textbook for it, someone else may have Ahmad Jamal, have graced the Zanzibar textbook writing experience and want to Blue stage. But it is also a home for the move into teaching that course. They could will be exciting younger jazz generation and has featured discuss writing a text book or an edited Harry Connick, Jr., Dana Krall, Stacy volume together. Denise Copleton and Kent, Steve Tyrell and Gerald Veasley. Our Tamara Smith of the Career Development Awards Banquet will be held at Zanzibar Committee will offer a breakfast workshop and busy, Blue, 200 South Broad Street, just three designed to cover the ABC's of Mentoring, blocks from our hotel. which will discuss how to find a mentor, To further our talk on the trajectory of how to nurture the relationship, and how to tenure and promotion, Mr. Alan Mc Clare, gracefully exit the arrangement if it is not but wrapped Senior Acquisitions Editor of Rowman & working. Attendees will be provided tools Littlefield Publishers, will be attending our with which to assess their own mentor rela- ASA/SWS/ABS Sister-to-Sister Reception tionships. Testimonials from people in var- and will be available to discuss publishing ious stages of the academic career will in the goals plans and ideas with you. Rowman & enhance the workshop. The session will Littlefield now publishes our Gender Lens conclude with information on how to join series. Please make sure to mark your cal- the SWS Hand Mentor Program and the endars to meet and greet and set up SWS Professional-Needs Mentoring of our work. appointments (bring your idea and or pro- Program. posals as well). Look for a flyer with Part three of our continued collaboration information on how to make appointments has been organized by Marcia Hernandez with Alan in advance. who has planned our student session with Our meetings will be exciting and busy, ABS entitled Emerging Scholarship in but wrapped in the goals of our work. Sociology: ABS-SWS Student However, as I continue to build the Roundtables. The roundtables will feature One of the goals of the session is to have Summer schedule, one or two more ses- research by students who are in varying a comfortable environment for students to sions will be added, but not so many to stages of their academic career, providing create a relationship with others in their obscure our work and compete with the them an opportunity to discuss research research area. For example, those invited other sessions. See you in Philly! interests and goals with other students and to present may consider forming writing faculty. A range of research topics includ- groups to maintain a forum in which they ing religion, sexuality, family and educa- can receive critical feedback, suggestions tion will be covered during the session. and encouragement to continue their work. Marlese 3 4 SWS Student Concerns Committee

work of emerging scholars doing interest- by the Membership and Career By: Marcia Hernandez ing and engaging research. The roundtable Development Committees that match jun- session will take place on Saturday, August ior with senior SWS members; instead it he Student Concerns Committee wel- 13th, the time and room information is will compliment them by focusing primari- T comes all of the new student members forthcoming. ly on student experiences. to SWS! Thanks to those of you who To participate in the Student-to-Student recently signed on to participate on the Student-to-Student Mentoring Program Mentoring Program, complete the applica- SWS student listserv, and to everyone who Participation in the student mentoring tion form available on the Student has taken the time to respond to the email program is an opportunity for students who Concerns link or respond to the listserv surveys and messages. are seasoned SWSers to assist new (or jun- post regarding the mentoring program. If you are a student member, but not on ior) student members as they progress in Please return the completed form by July the student listserv, send an email to SWS- their graduate programs. For junior mem- 24th and email it to Rachel Kutz- [email protected] or you may con- bers, having a student mentor is useful, as Flamenbaum ([email protected]). tact Jenny Korn (the listserv manager) students offer an unique perspective Include "student mentoring program" in directly at [email protected]. regarding the concerns and issues related the email heading. Students will be to comprehensive exams, tips for new matched prior to the Summer meeting; par- Ongoing Committee Efforts teachers, and the challenges of starting a ticipants will be notified by email of their The committee has space on the SWS master's or dissertation project. New stu- mentor-partner in August. website to post information related to student members can benefit from other's dent issues. If you would like to add an experiences and wisdom in learning how to Student Happy Hour item to this page, contact me via email at network, socialize, and navigate a confer- SWS will sponsor a Student Happy Hour [email protected]. The follow- ence. during the summer meetings. This event is ing items are currently posted on the Involvement in the Student-to-Student open to all SWS students, and mentor-part- Student Concerns page: the Student-to- Mentoring Program will not exclude you ners are welcome to use it as an opportuni- Student mentoring application, the Student from signing up for other SWS mentoring ty to socialize with each other. The place, Representation survey and Hey Jane! programs. This program will not replace date and time will be announced on the Columns (the Student Edition). the existing mentoring programs organized SWS listservs. There is need for further discussion among students regarding representation in SWS based on the responses to a survey posted in February 2005. A new, revised survey is now on the Student Concerns link Job Opportunities of the SWS website. Please take a few min- Luther College. The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work utes to complete the survey. The results invites applications for a tenure eligible position as Assistant Professor of Sociology will be presented at the Summer meeting starting late August 2006. Applicants should have completed the Ph.D. in sociology and available online after August. by August 2006. A demonstrated passion for teaching is a must. Specialization in crime or deviant behavior is preferred and experience in teaching sociological theo- Student Events at the Summer Meeting ry is a plus. Teaching load will include Introduction to Sociology, Crime or Emerging Scholarship in Sociology: Deviance, Sociological Theory a plus. The sociology program consists of three full- ABS-SWS Student Roundtables time faculty and seeks to offer students a broad-based curriculum by faculty with The roundtables will feature research by diverse research interests. We seek a scholar who is passionate about teaching, is students who are in varying stages of their well versed in the fundamentals of the discipline, and is interested in inclusive and academic career. One of the goals of the innovative pedagogy. Review of applications begins immediately and continues session is to have a comfortable environ- until the position is filled. Applications completed by September 30, 2005 will ment for students to create a relationship receive full consideration. Women and members of diverse ethnic backgrounds are with others in their research area. For strongly encouraged to apply. All correspondence, including: 1) letter of application; example, those invited to present may con- 2) detailed curriculum vitae; 3) statement of your educational philosophy, 4) three sider forming writing groups to maintain a official reference letters, and 5) official transcripts should be sent to: Char Kunkel, forum in which they can receive critical Ph.D., Chair, Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and feedback, suggestions and encouragement Social Work, Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045, to continue their work. Therefore we wel- Telephone: 563/387-1624 (office), FAX: 563/387-1107, E-mail: come all conference participants to attend [email protected]. An EEO employer. PO # 115807 the roundtable session to learn about other's work, offer feedback and join a net-

5 Members’ Bookshelf

Heartwood: The First Generation of nity initiatives; Kathleen Duffy, a Catholic ucts, and participation in voluntary soci- Theravada Buddhism in America religious and professor of physics; eties. The pan-ethnic identities that result By: Wendy Cadge, University of Chicago Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, an assistant demonstrate both a resilient attachment to Press, January 2005. dean and a professor of psychology; Azza "heritage" and a celebration of reinven- Karam, a director of women's programs tion. Theravada is one of the three main for an interfaith organization; Anna branches of Buddhism. In Asia it is prac- Karpathakis, who teaches behavioral sci- Not-so-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender ticed widely in Thailand, Laos, Burma, Sri ences; Judith Lorber, founding editor of and Networks of Care Lanka, and Cambodia. This fascinating Gender & Society; Mira Morgenstern, a By: Karen V. Hansen, Rutgers University ethnography opens a window onto two professor of political science; Vanessa Press, 2005. communities of Theravada Buddhists in Ochs, a professor of Jewish studies; and contemporary America: one outside Louise M. Temple-Rosebrook, a professor In recent years, U.S. public policy has Philadelphia that is composed largely of of biology. The book also includes essays focused on strengthening the nuclear fam- Thai immigrants and one outside Boston by the editors exploring their journeys in ily as a primary strategy for improving the that consists mainly of white converts. feminism and religious belief. An intro- lives of America's youth. It is often Cadge first provides a historical duction and conclusion frame these socio- assumed that this type of family is an overview of Theravada Buddhism and autobiographies within the sociology of independent, self-sufficient unit adequate considers its specific origins here in the religion literature and feminist theorizing for raising children. However, half of all United States. She then brings her find- on religion and sociology. U.S. households with young children have ings to bear on issues of personal identity, two employed parents. How do working immigration, cultural assimilation, and the Negotiating Ethnicity: Second parents provide care and mobilize the help nature of religion in everyday life. Her Generation South Asian Americans that they need? Hansen contends that work is the first systematic comparison of Traverse a Transnational World working parents must create networks of the ways in which immigrant and convert By: Bandana Purkayastha, Rutgers care - friends, paid caregivers and extend- Buddhists understand, practice, and adapt University Press, 2005. ed kin - to close the "care gap" for their the Buddhist tradition in America. The school-aged children. She debunks the men and women whom Cadge meets and Focusing on second-generation South myth that families in the United States are observes speak directly to us in this work, Asian Americans, Bandana Purkayastha independent, isolated, and self-reliant, and both in their personal testimonials and as offers fresh insights into the subjective breaks new ground by asserting that net- they meditate, pray, and practice experience of race, ethnicity, and social works of care can provide unique and Buddhism. class in an increasingly diverse America. valuable bonds that nuclear families can- The young people of Indian, Pakistani, not. Hansen's in-depth study is based on Still Believing: Jewish, Christian, and Bangladeshi, and Nepalese origin that are extensive interviews with four low, mod- Muslim Women Affirm Their Faith. the subjects of the study grew up in most- erate, and high-income white, working Edited by: Victoria Lee Erickson and ly white middle-class suburbs, and their families. She chronicles their individual Susan A. Farrell, Orbis Press, 2005 linguistic skills, education, and occupa- conflicts, hardships and triumphs in con- tion profiles are indistinguishable from structing networks of care for their chil- Women of three religious traditions share their white peers. By many standards, dren, and gives justifiable weight to the stories that affirm the power that faith and their lifestyles mark them as members of differences in their economic and social belonging have to illuminate life. In these mainstream American culture. But, as resources. She concludes with a series of stories, women from several academic Purkayastha shows, their ethnic experi- policy suggestions intended to improve disciplines show how faith structures their ences are shaped by their racial status as the environment in which working fami- personal and professional lives and how neither "white" nor "wholly Asian," their lies raise children. "belonging" to a tradition remains mean- continuing ties with family members ingful. The narratives are arranged across the world, and a global consumer Rape Work: Victims, Gender and Emotions according to three ways of remaining con- industry, which targets them as ethnic in Organization and Community nected to the various religious traditions consumers. Drawing on information gath- By: Patricia Yancey Martin, Routledge, along a continuum of believing and ered from forty-eight in-depth interviews 2005. belonging, believing but not belonging, this book illustrates how ethnic identity is and belonging but not believing. The negotiated by this group through the adop- After 20 years of feminist protest and authors include Nura W. Ammat'ullah, a tion of ethnic labels, the invention of "tra- legal reforms that were intended to take Muslim developer of faith-based commu- ditions," the consumption of ethnic prod- care of this problem, rape victims are still

6 Members’ Bookshelf cont... pervasively mistreated. One reason is that harm victims nevertheless. The book ties gathered through personal interviews, the officials who process victims in the reveals the vital role of rape crisis centers on site observation, and archival sources legal and therapeutic systems of local by showing that they not only help victims (e.g., reports, protocols, rape kits). The communities do harm in simply doing but they also coordinate the efforts of book shows that people of goodwill treat their jobs. Martin's book shows how mainstream organizations and educate the victims unresponsively when the frames mainstream organizations instruct--and public about rape. of their organizations orient them to prior- often require--their members to treat vic- Rape Work argues that officials who itize organizational interests over victims' tims "unresponsively," in ways that add to work with rape victims are told by their interests. rather than alleviate the trauma of rape. employers to do their work in ways that For example, they instruct them to remain are harmful to victims. Analysis of the skeptical, emotionally aloof, and unin- organizational frames and practices volved and to challenge victims as wit- behind these dynamics accounts for why nesses whose stories must be validated this occurs. To make the case, Martin ana- rather than comfort them as victims lyzes the range of organizations that work deserving of empathy and support. with victims: law enforcement (police Conditions like these are the focus of this and sheriff), hospitals, rape crisis centers, book. Viewing rape victims through an prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys, organizational lens, Martin shows how and juries. The analysis is based on data and why even compassionate officials from 80 mainstream organizations and 25 with no intention of doing harm routinely rape crisis centers in 22 Florida communi-

PEOPLE AND PLACES

Wendy Cadge is currently serving a two year fellowship through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program where she is developing a number of new research projects about religion and medicine.

Shannon N. Davis (post-doctoral scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill) received the 2004 Kenneth R. Keller Research Award for Excellence in Graduate Research from North Carolina State University.

Shobha Hamal Gurung's photo exhibit on women weavers in Nepal is currently on view at the University of Connecticut. This exhibit was earlier shown in Boston.

Leslie Houts has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position starting this fall at the University of Dayton.

Anjana Narayan, a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, was awarded one of two university-wide 100 Years of Women's Scholarship awards. Anjana also received a citation from Governor Jodi Rell for her scholarship and activism for women of color.

Celine-Marie Pascale received the 2005 Multicultural Affairs/International Student Services Award for Distinguished Faculty in recognition of demonstrated scholarly accomplishments and unselfish commitment to the enhancement of cultural awareness at American University.

Rosalie Torres Stone (University of Nebraska) and Bandana Purkayastha (University of Connecticut) were featured in several Nebraska newspapers for their article on Mexican American Earnings in the Midwest.

Rose Weitz won the 2005 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and won the Special Nominee (finalist) award for the Arizona State University Professor of the Year Award.

7 SWS Elects New Officers and Committee Members

President Elect - Christine E. Bose is Chris says that she has worked to pro- Professor of Sociology at the University at mote feminist/gender studies and equality Albany, SUNY, where she also serves as for women, with a focus on feminist Chair of the Department of Women's activism and institution building for more Studies (2004-07) and holds a joint than thirty years. She was elected Chair of appointment in the Department of U.S. the ASA's Sex and Gender Section (1989- Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean 90) and has been an SWS member since Studies. She founded and was the first her graduate school days in the early Director of Albany's Institute for Research 1970s. Chris was a member of the commit- on Women (IROW) (1987-91), is an active tee that established Gender & Society member of the campus's Initiatives for (1985-86), and became a reviewer, editori- Women (IFW) Fund-Raising Committee, al board member, and Editor (2000-2003) and co-directed a Ford Foundation Project of our journal, where she promoted global entitled "Gender Studies in Global gender issues especially by publishing per- Perspective," which has provided assistant- spectives articles on gender research in a ships to 15 Master's level students whose variety of countries. As 2006 President of research combined gender studies with SWS, she plans to build upon the efforts of regional area studies. She is currently previous presidents to further extend our working on two edited books, Global transnational connections and knowledge Dimensions of Carework and Gender and to emphasize our diverse constituen- (Mary Zimmerman, Jacqueline Litt, and cies. To begin this effort, Chris has already Chris Bose) to be published by Stanford announced that the 2006 Winter Meetings University Press and Global Perspectives will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from on Gender Research (Chris Bose and January 26-29, 2006 at the Normandie Minjeong Kim) to be published by Hotel. Start looking for those e-saver air- Routledge. line tickets!

Vice President - Cathy Zimmer has been a passion is quantitative analysis; she teach- member of SWS since Barbara Risman es the first year graduate students in started a local chapter when Cathy was a Sociology at UNC how to do quantitative graduate student at the University of North sociology. She also consults with social Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a feminist scientists from all disciplines on how to sociologist, SWS became her professional design and execute quantitative studies. home. As a faculty member at North Since her move back to UNC, she has Carolina State University, she helped served on the SWS Publications organize the winter meeting held in Committee as a member, and for the past Raleigh, NC. Cathy served as Treasurer of two years, as co-chair. In addition, Cathy SWS from 1999 until 2002. At about that and Rebecca Bach have organized the time, she became a statistical consultant at annual silent auction for the past several the Odum Institute for Research in Social years. As Vice President, Cathy wants to Sciences and Adjunct Professor of keep the membership momentum going Sociology at the University of North that Jan Thomas has so successfully gener- Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cathy's teaching ated.

Career Development Chair - Denise Career Development Committee since 2003 Copelton is an Assistant Professor of and organized a session on CV construction Sociology at SUNY Brockport where she for the 2004 summer meeting. She was also teaches courses in medical sociology, intro- the co-coordinator (with Patti Giuffre, 2004- duction to sociology, and family. Her 2005) of the Professional-Needs Mentor research areas include medical sociology Program and oversaw the transition of that and gender and she has published articles on program from the Membership Committee the social impact of the legalization of to Career Development. Denise is also a mifepristone (formerly RU-486) and men- member of the Beth Hess Memorial strual extraction as a home abortion method. Scholarship Committee and is the Program She has been a volunteer member of the Chair for the Midwest chapter of SWS. 8 SWS Elects New Officers and Committee Members

Student Representative - Marcia Hernandez is activities, and the Hand Program. Marcia ABD at the University of Albany, SUNY and also serves on the Membership Committee. has recently accepted an offer to be an She has organized various panels and work- Assistant Professor in the Sociology shops on graduate student experiences for Department at the University of Pacific. Her ABA and ASA. As the current Student research focuses on women's experiences in Representative Marcia works with other stu- historically Black sororities. Marcia's aca- dents in SWS to increase the ways in which demic interests include race, gender and the organization may be of service to stu- class in education and popular culture. dents. For example, the Student Concerns Marcia has been a member of SWS since committee now has a link on the SWS web- 1999 and has attended numerous summer site where information related to students and winter meetings. Some of the SWS can be posted. The committee has begun a events she has participated in include serv- "Hey Jane!" column for students and a stu- ing as a facilitator for a Faculty-Graduate dent focused mentoring program will begin Student Roundtable in 2000, Sister-to-Sister in August. Social Action Chair - Virginia Rutter is the manages the National Couples Survey, a study newly-elected chair of the Social Action of how couples' relationships-including power Committee-working to continue the great suc- differences-influences their contraceptive choic- cess of Tracy Ore, who ushered in the SWS Fact es. For the past five years she has been an Sheets and to get the word out far and wide instructor in the department of sociology at the about the work of feminist sociologists. It makes University of Washington, where she recently sense that Virginia would be involved at this completed her Ph.D. and defended her disserta- point: before she became a sociologist, she tion, "The Case for Divorce: under what condi- worked for years as a public affairs person for tions is divorce beneficial and for whom?" mental health organizations, Congress, publish- Virginia got involved with SWS through one of ers, and in higher education. Now, she is a health her advisors, Judy Howard, and got to know the research scientist at Battelle Centers for Public organization when she worked on the SWS Health Research and Evaluation in Seattle: she Mid-Winter meeting in Seattle in 1996.

Career Development Committee - Jennifer collections. Jennifer held visiting positions at Keys became part of SWS as a University at Denison University and Kenyon College. Albany graduate student. While there, she Currently, she lives in Chicago and is an served as a managing editor of two journals, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Sociological Forum and Gender and Society. Central College. She has served on the Career Her primary areas of scholarly interest are gen- Development Committee of SWS for a year and der and social movements and her dissertation a half and has just assumed her new role as the focused on emotion work in women's abortion coordinator of the Professional-Needs experiences. Several of her teaching activities Mentoring Program. and syllabi have been published in various ASA Publications Committee - Mimi Schippers ology and women's studies at Tulane University received her PhD. in sociology from the in New Orleans. At Tulane she teaches under- University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her work graduate and graduate courses in the sociology focuses on gender and sexuality in everyday cul- of gender, the sociology of sexuality, and the tural practice and interaction. Using multiple sociology of the body, and the required graduate qualitative methods, she conducts cultural course in sociology on contemporary theory. In ethnographies to build theory on gender and women's studies, Mimi teaches courses in femi- sexuality as they intersect and diverge at multi- nist theory, research in women's studies, and ple levels of social organization. Mimi's current popular culture. Mimi has been a member of research project is a comparative, ethnographic SWS since the mid-1990s and has served on the study of the social organization of sexuality in membership committee. For Mimi, SWS has Paris and Chicago. Mimi held a tenure-track been absolutely central in shaping her identity position at Albion College in south central and work as a feminist sociologist. Mimi feels Michigan for 5 years, and is currently in the sec- honored to be able to serve the organization as a ond year of a tenure-track, joint position in soci- member of the publications committee.

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Publications Committee - Bandana and West Africa (Lexington Press, 2004) Purkayastha, is Associate Professor of examined the relevance of informal net- Sociology and Asian American Studies at works and poor women's agency in a glob- the University of Connecticut. She was alizing world. She is also the Series Editor educated at Presidency College (Kolkata, for the Asian American Studies Institute on India), University of Calcutta, University of Asian Americans in Connecticut, which Massachusetts, and the University of includes Census data publications and Connecticut. She uses a race/gender/ class socio-historical research reports on specific lens to study ethnicity/transnationalism, Asian American groups in Connecticut. She international and US based marginalized is currently working on gender/race and women's organizing, as well as earnings of human rights issues. She is a co-Founder of Asian American and Latino groups (with The South Asian Tree, a network focusing Rosalie Torres Stone, University of on improving and sustaining links between Nebraska). Her peer reviewed articles and people of different nationalities, religions, chapters have been published in the US, and other socially constructed differences. UK, Germany, and India. Among her recent She currently serves on the editorial board publications are her new research mono- of Gender & Society and is a member of the graph on Negotiating Ethnicity: South publications committee. She is also an Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational executive board member of Research World (Rutgers University Press) which Committee of International Sociological examines the lives of the children of post- Association. She has won AAUP and State 1965, highly educated, non-white, middle- awards for her teaching, a UCONN Woman class immigrants from a racialized transna- of Color award for leadership, achieve- tional perspective. Her earlier book, co- ment, and service, and was honored for her edited with Mangala Subramaniam, The research and activism relating to immigrant Power of Women's Informal Networks: populations by the Connecticut State Lessons in Social Change from South Asia Legislature.

Nominations Committee - Rebecca Bach education on adolescent birth and STD is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the rates. She served as President of SWS- Department of Sociology at Duke South and on the Membership committee University. Her teaching and research of SWS. Along with Cathy Zimmer, interests include gender and sexuality and Rebecca has coordinated the auction at the she is currently at work on a project exam- past 3 SWS winter meetings. ining the impact of abstinence-only sex

Awards Committee - Abby Ferber is the Hate: Gender and the White Supremacist author of White Man Falling: Race, Movement (2004). She has served as a pan- Gender and White Supremacy (1998); co- elist for press and congressional briefings author of Hate Crime in America: What Do on hate crime, and is a frequent presenter We Know? (2001) and Making A and workshop facilitator on diversity Difference: University Students of Color issues. Abby also chairs the SWS Speak Out (2003); co-editor of Privilege: A Taskforce on the Feminist Transformation Reader (2003) and editor of Home-Grown of the Academy.

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Membership Committee - Mary Virnoche is recently accredited Practicing Sociology MA an Assistant Professor at Humboldt State program. Mary loves walking to work, teaching University in Arcata, California. She teaches in the same department as her husband, Josh, graduate and undergraduate research, gender and playing with her kids Zachary (6), pictured and technology courses and coordinates their here, and Noah (1).

Membership Committee - Heather Laube my dissertation and enjoyed every second has been a member of SWS since 1995 of it. I've enjoyed introducing new and when she began work on her master's potential members to the group and the degree at the University of Wisconsin- individuals within it." Heather has served Milwaukee. Heather is now an assistant as a volunteer member on the membership professor at the University of Michigan - committee for several years, and was the Flint. Heather says, "SWS has sustained first student representative (appointed). me and I truly don't believe I'd have gotten She most recently worked on the document my PhD without this organization. SWS on the "Impact of Gender on the has given me mentors, friends, connection Evaluation of Teaching" (available on the to great scholars and scholarship, and the website and the fall 2004 issue of Network feeling of being an "insider" in a discipline News). Heather enjoys promoting SWS to that has (and does) not always welcomed a those who are unfamiliar with the organi- feminist (critical) perspective. And, when I zation and is excited to continue the great say SWS played an important role in com- work that the membership committee has pleting my PhD, I mean it in a very con- begun. crete way. I interviewed many members for

Awards Committee - Shirley A. Hill is a focused on African American families; she including the Publications Committee and Professor at the University of Kansas, most recently authored Black Intimacies: the Social Action Committee. No photo where she teaches courses in marriage and Family and Intimate Relationships available. the family, social inequality, and medical (AltaMira Press, 2005). Shirley has served sociology. Much of her research has on many SWS committees over the years,

Nominations Committee - Josephine addressing gender and cultural identity (1998). She teaches graduate and under- Beeoku-Betts is an Associate Professor of issues in African-American communities graduate courses on Poverty and Society, Women's Studies and Sociology at the in the coastal islands of Georgia and South Feminist Perspectives on Women of Color, Florida Atlantic University. Josephine Carolina, and women and education in Gender, Science and Technology, Global Beoku-Betts' research is primarily interdis- Sub-Saharan Africa, the latter culminating Perspectives on Gender, and Feminization ciplinary, with area interests in Sub- in a co-edited anthology entitled: Women of Poverty. No photo available. Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: United States. She has several publications Power, Opportunities and Constants

Please note change in Network News Contact Information: Leslie Hossfeld, Editor Network News Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403 910 231 6802 [email protected]

11 Call for Proposals The Publications Committee of Sociologists for Women in Society announces a search for the next Editor of our journal, Gender & Society. The Editor will serve a four-year term beginning May 1, 2006, and ending with Volume 24 in June, 2010 (with a possible discretionary fifth year). The Publications Committee seeks an Editor with a vision and strategy for maintaining and strengthening Gender & Society as a prestigious interdisciplinary specialty journal.

The publisher and organization provide significant resources to the editorial office, but the institution that hosts the journal will also be expected to provide support for both the Editor and the office. The proposal should indicate the expected institutional support.

The proposal must also formally specify the details of the proposed editorial structure, including names and qualifications of all Editors who will be actively involved in the reviewing and editing processes. The Publications Committee encourages proposals that specify either a system of Co-Editors or a formally elaborated Deputy or Associate Editor system (or some other creative alternative).

The current publisher (Sage) expects electronic delivery of all accepted manuscripts (including book reviews). The Publications Committee encourages proposals that indicate capacity and willingness to work with the publisher to move toward exclusively electronic systems for submitting, reviewing, and tracking as well as delivering manuscripts.

A preliminary discussion of resources provided and expected is strongly encouraged, either with the Co-Chair of the Publications Committee, Lisa D. Brush (University of Pittsburgh), or with the current Editor, Christine Williams (UT-Austin), or both. Members of SWS are encouraged to apply and/or suggest colleagues who might be encouraged to apply.

Applicants should send a cover letter of application, detailed outline of the proposed editorial structure, documentation of institutional support, and curriculum vitae of the proposed Editor(s) and any Deputy Editors by August 1, 2005 to: Lisa D. Brush 2425 Posvar Hall Department of Sociology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 U.S.A. Electronic submissions and inquiries are encouraged via email to: drbrush@groovy

12 Local and Regional Chapters

Lansing, Michigan Chapter SWS-South Chapter Southeastern North Carolina Chapter By: Lori Baralt By: Margaret Leaf and Christine Wernet By: Leslie Hossfeld

In April we hosted a discussion on getting SWS-South was productive and prosper- This spring our chapter sponsored two through the process of comprehensive ous at the Southern Sociological Society undergraduate students from the exams. A few SWS members who had Annual Meetings in April in Charlotte. We University of North Carolina at Pembroke, recently passed their comprehensive exams co-sponsored 14 sessions, ranging in topics Helen Warwick and Tara Govan, to attend in different areas, but all with some focus from sexual education to sociology of film the Southern Sociological Society annual on gender, advised those of us who are to researching motherhood. Additionally, meetings in Charlotte, North Carolina. preparing to take them in the coming year. our silent auction raised an impressive SWS-National Membership Committee Later in April we had an SWS potluck at $711.50 to be donated to the ASA Minority kindly provided $170.00 to assist us with Rita Gallin's home. We donated requested Scholarship fund. Finally, we elected three these expenses. Helen and Tara served as paper products to our local Safe Place, an new officers for 2005-2006: Vice discussants during a presentation on tex- on-campus domestic violence shelter. We President: Angela Lewellyn Jones, Elon tile-manufacturing job loss. This was their are looking forward to an active 2005-2006 University; SWS National Liaisons: first conference and found the experience year with monthly discussion meetings, a Margaret Leaf, Florida State University rewarding and meaningful, especially in new gender faculty member, another and Christine Wernet, University of South terms of networking and professional search for a gender faculty position, and a Carolina Aiken. For more information on development. Helen and Tara send their new cohort of graduate students! SWS-South, including a full list of our thanks to SWS for their generous sup- officers, membership information, and our port. recent newsletter, visit our Web site at http://www.irss.unc.edu/cathy/SWS- South/home.htm. The Carework Network is pleased to announce its 2005 summer event the day before the beginning of the ASA meetings, a plenary and reception on Friday, August 12 from 4-6pm at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, will be one of the keynote speakers. All SWS members are invited to attend.

For more information, log onto the Network's website: www.carework-network.org.

13 14 15 Local and Regional Chapters ACTIVE STATUS REGIONAL (Meet on a regular basis) MIDWEST (MSWS) TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA Michelle Miller ([email protected]) Irene Padavic ([email protected]) NORTH CENTRAL Pat Martin ([email protected]) Martha Schmidt (schmid1@uakron@edu) LANSING, MICHIGAN SOUTH (SWS-SOUTH) Julie Hartman ([email protected]) Diane Everett ([email protected]) Lori Baralt ([email protected]) PACIFIC (ORGANIZING) LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Stephanie Nawyn ([email protected]) (http://www.unlv.edu/faculty2/jkeene/SWS/) Kari Lerum ([email protected]) Jennifer Keene ([email protected]) Julie Setele ([email protected]) Anastasia Prokos ([email protected]) INTERESTED IN FORMING CHAPTER NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Jackie Skiles ([email protected]) Christina Borel ([email protected]) NORTH CAROLINA Mary Churchill ([email protected]) Southeastern: Leslie Hossfeld ([email protected]) ALBANY/TRI-CITIES, NEW YORK Triangle (Raleigh/Durham): Cheri Chambers Sally Dear ([email protected]) ([email protected]) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA KENT-AKRON, OHIO Dina Pinsky ([email protected]) Vicki Hunter ([email protected]) WASHINGTON, DC Martina Grier ([email protected]) Amy McLaughlin ([email protected]) PIONEER VALLEY, WESTERN MASSACHUSSETS Kat Jones ([email protected])

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