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By: Manisha Desai The meeting in New York was organized to continue the SWS President focus of the winter meetings on Solidarities Across Borders. I was really pleased with the attendance at our sessions. rom New Orleans to New York was both a dramatic There was standing room only at Doing Gender: 20 Years shift and yet a continuation of the story of the Later which honored Candace West and Don Zimmerman's contemporaryFF crisis of the US state, in particular the increas- classic article in Gender and Society. Similarly the panel, ing privatization and corruption of the state’s security and Straight Up No Chaser: Challenges Women of Color Face in reconstruction roles. While the attack in New York, six the Academy, and Evelyn Nakano Glenn's SWS Feminist years ago, marked the beginning of this crisis, New Orleans Lecture, Yearning for Whiteness: The New Global represented the depth of this crisis. The SWS meeting in Marketing of Skin Whitening Products, were well attended New Orleans showcased how every day men and women in and led to animated discussions. I also took advantage of our New Orleans were building solidarities across borders to location in New York City and organized jointly, with ASA rebuild even as the state had abdicated its responsibilities. and Women Make Movies, a day-long women's film The US model of privatization of state roles was also evident festival. It was a first for SWS and I hope we can continue in the cases of India and Nicaragua where people faced with it at future meetings. similar natural disasters exposed even more festering social As in past years we capitalized on the simultaneous meet- disasters compounded by their respective state’s roles. ...continued on page 3 President's Message: March On Washington: plus ça change plus c’est la même chose

By: Manisha Desai For example, a group of men and sal politics a lot of organizing is still President women, dressed as cheer leaders, per- done around identity politics. formed skits critiquing the Whatever the case, lack of diversity y fourteen year old son and I IMF/World Bank/WTO. Gender bend- continues to be an issue. joined thousands of marchers ing and camp were the norm as high- Another thing that has stayed the inMM Washington on Sept. 15th 2007 to lighted by the performances of Code same are the issues. Many of the protest the war in Pink, www.codepink4peace.org, activists who participated were veter- Iraq. This march which uses “humor and joy to “wage ans of Vietnam era anti-war move- was the first in peace.” The ‘die-in,” which began a ments. And most expressed deep dis- which Iraqi veter- few months ago in many local rallies appointment that forty years later we ans against the and protest is now spreading and rep- were still protesting wars. What had war and their fam- resents the growing number of new we accomplished in the intervening ilies led the symbolic repertoires. years they asked? While this despair protest. I was It was thrilling to see the park fill is not totally warranted, the nexus of struck by how up with people, young and old, flam- power between the elite and the peo- some things have boyant and sedate, veterans and civil- ple’s movements has not changed changed even as others have stayed the ians. But despite this apparent diver- much. As Piven and Cloward noted same. What has changed is the technology sity what struck us was how we, peo- many decades ago, elite respond only of organizing and the repertoires of protest. ple of color, were among the minori- when people are able to disrupt busi- Most of the information and planning of ty. It was predominantly a white ness as usual. And despite our suc- the event was done online. ANSWER, Act event. When the rally began, howev- cesses, we haven’t been able to effect Now to Stop War and End Racism, er, many of the speakers were men a real change in power. Our mes- (http://answer.pephost.org), the umbrella and women of color. The message sages have not become hegemonic organization that sponsored the event is a was also more global and made and we do not have the resources to national network with many local affili- explicit linkages between war and make it so. The mainstream media do ates. The event itself consisted of a rally at occupation of Iraq and other strug- not even feel compelled to acknowl- Lafeyette Park, across from the White gles such as those in Palestine, Haiti, edge our presence. House, a march on Pennsylvania Avenue and Afghanistan. Most of the mes- Neither of the two papers we read from the White House to the Capitol, and sages also made connections between daily, the New York Times or the ended with a “die-in” at the Capitol Steps. economic and social justice and Hartford Courant, covered the march The use of the internet and the cell phone peace. This was indeed heartening. on their front pages. Both devoted a have transformed the organizing of such But what explains the continuing quarter page to it and the focus was large events. We signed up and paid for whiteness of the peace movement in the confrontation between the pro- our bus on line. We were sent information the US? Even Codepink which war supporters, who lined part of about the departure, details of the event, defines itself as a grassroots move- Pennsylvania Avenue, and the and the cell phone numbers of the local and ment for social and economic justice marchers and the arrests of about 100 national ANSWER activists by emails. is primarily white. Jackie Smith, at a protestors who pushed the barricades The emails were also embedded with mul- session on the US Social Forum at the at the Capitol steps. And while both tiple links to organizing groups and current SSSP meetings in New York City, papers noted the numbers of protes- status of the events. Cyberspace has made a similar observation about the tors in the thousands, ANSWER’s become an efficient way to accomplish a whiteness and the insularity of the own web site notes that 100,000 peo- lot of the nitty-gritty of mobilizing people. US peace movement. While ple marched. We rode with about 40 marchers from ANSWER is a new umbrella organi- Despite the continuities of the issues Hartford and arrived in DC about five zation that has made ending racism and the limitations of our organizing, hours ahead of the rally which was to begin part of its anti-war agenda and does there is still reason for hope. For at noon. But the park was already filling not belong to the older peace move- many young people marching for the up with marchers, souvenir vendors, and ment organizations in the country, it first time, it was a radicalizing and various groups participating in the event. is still not able to mobilize people of inspiring moment. As Gramsci noted, Many of the participants had come as indi- color to participate in large numbers. we have to maintain a skepticism of viduals and not as part of a group or organ- Part of it could be the organizing the intellect and an optimism of the ization. The technologies of organizing strategies and the lack of presence in will as we work towards establishing facilitates such participation. While many the communities of color. Another counter hegemonies. of the repertories of protest remain the reason is despite our commitment to same, there were many variations. intersectional analysis and transver- 2 ...continued from Page 1 ings of SSSP, ABS, and ASA and organized several co-sponsored sessions. Among them were: Teaching Gender Through Film; The Praxis of Academics' Activism; and Gender Research: Linking the Global and Local for Social Change. In addi- Published and distributed by Sociologists for Women in Society, an international tion there were sessions organized by several of our committees such as The organization of more than 1,000 social Employment Package: Critique Me; Feminist Teaching Portfolio; and Dissertation scientists, faculty, undergraduate and graduate Research: International Fieldwork/Research Abroad. students, sociology practitioners and independent scholars who share a dedication to social equality. What was exciting about the other meetings this year in NYC is that both ASA’s and SSSP’s presidents are SWS members and in the case of SSSP, a past president Editor ...... Leslie Hossfeld of SWS. I doubt that our foremothers would have predicted this level of change Graphics Editor ...... Allison Alvarez Hedrick when they decided to channel their frustration with ASA by starting SWS. Both Sociologists for Women in Society ASA and SSSP programs were animated by a sociology linked with the struggles President ...... Manisha Desai that we face at this conjuncture of US hegemony. The ASA program included President -Elect ...... Joey Sprague activists and other non-professional sociologists among its plenary speakers. Past President...... Chris Bose Vice-President ...... Cynthia Anderson This revival of public sociology was also visible in the First Conference of Secretary ...... Tina Fetner Sociologists Without Borders on Sociology and Human Rights held at Columbia Treasurer ...... Kathleen Slobin University on August 15th. Deputy Treasurer ...... Tracey Steele The business of SWS is in good hands as indicated by the committee reports that Executive Officer ...... Jessica Sherwood follow. I want to highlight a couple of issues of interest to our membership. We Student Representative ...... Minjeong Kim continue to be in a strong financial condition and plan to undertake an investment Standing Committee Chairs: and spending plan for the organization. We voted, unanimously, to create a new Awards ...... Tracy Ore standing committee on The Feminist Transformation of the Academy. Abby Career Development ...... Tamara Smith Ferber, who made the case on behalf of the committee, agreed to further clarify its Discrimination Support ...... Shirley Jackson mission, think of a name to reflect that mission, and consult with the Career International ...... Trina Smith Development and Social Action Committees. The second vote on this motion will Membership ...... Cynthia Anderson be held at the winter meeting. Joey Sprague, announced the creation of a new task Publications ...... Toni Calasanti force, Mainstreaming Feminist Sociology, and gave us a preview of the upcoming Publications ...... Kerry Ann Rockquemore Winter Meeting in Las Vegas. Social Action ...... Marybeth Stalp Nominations...... Chris Bose As always we ended with a banquet, held at the Jewel of India, where excellent Gender & Society Editor ...... Dana Britton food and camaraderie were the order of the evening. At the summer banquet we Book Review Editor . . . . . Martha McCaughey present our awards and this year we had two new awards: The ASA/SWS Minority Fellowship and the Women of Color Dissertation Award. In addition to celebrat- Material for publication (including advertisements) should be submitted to Networknews ing our members' individual professional and personal achievements, we also, for Editor: Leslie Hossfeld, Department of the first time, celebrated the retirement of our members. Let’s continue with such Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of celebrations. North Carolina at Wilmington 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403. Phone: (910) 962-7849. Email: [email protected] Deadlines for submission: Sociologists for Women in Society Summer - May 15; Fall - September 15; Winter - November 15; Spring - March 15 CCAALLLL FFOORR PPAAPPEERRSS Attention: For those submitting time sensitive 2008 Winter Meeting February 7-10 materials, target dates for publication and mailing are: Summer-June 15, Fall-October 15, Las Vegas, NV Winter-December 15, Spring-April 15. We invite SWS members to submit papers or extended abstracts for presentation in one Fee schedule for advertisements: Full page- of our two research roundtable sessions. Detailed abstracts (2 pages) are acceptable. To $200.00; Half-page-$100.00; Quarter-page or be considered for presentation, abstracts or brief (15 page) presentation papers must be less-$50.00; Job announcements-$25.00. received by October 20th, 2007. Papers and abstracts should be sent via surface mail or Invoices will be sent after announcements email attachment (Microsoft Word, rich text format, or pdf documents preferred). appear. Please send to: Please send membership and change of address Liz Legerski, Roundtable Organizer, information to: SWS Executive Office, URI University of Kansas - Department of Sociology Sociology, Chafee Social Science Center 750 Fraser Hall Kingston, RI 02881 1415 Jayhawk Blvd , Lawrence, KS 66045 Office: 401.874.9510 [email protected] Fax: 401.874.2588 Email: [email protected] Please share this call for papers with other SWS members. Further information about the conference can be found on the SWS website (http://www.socwomen.org/meetings.php ). Looking forward to seeing you in Las Vegas! 3 Winter Meetings in Las Vegas

By: Joey Sprague applying the strategies we have among us. SWS is exactly the kind of President Elect learned to discussing what our key conference where breastfeeding is goals are as an organization and how welcome -- we're hoping that mothers hanks for your confidence in we can make SWS more effective at will feel comfortable nursing wherev- choosing me as President-Elect. accomplishing er they please dur- AsTT I said in my candidate statement, I them. ing the confer- see the most important role of SWS It won’t be all ence. The Alexis as making it easier for feminist soci- strategy and schol- Park hotel is small ologists to be feminist in how we do arship—we’re enough that it will the sociology we do – research, going to be in be easy to move teaching, service, and/or practice. Vegas! Our top from the meeting While we must remain flexible in notch local to a guest room addressing the varied flare-ups of arrangements com- with comfy chairs, social injustice, I think we could be mittee is exploring a sink and a even more effective as feminist getting a group fridge. However, scholars, teachers, and activists if we rate to see a Cirque if anyone has a were a little more focused and strate- du Soleil show on particular need for gic as an organization. I promised Friday night and a specified lacta- that if I were elected, I would work to we have a dyna- tion space please facilitate that process and I have mite banquet let us know. Send designed the coming Winter Meeting (including danc- an email to sws- in Las Vegas, February 7-10, to give ing) planned for [email protected]. us a running start. As a result, this Saturday night. I hope you Winter Meeting will be a little differ- And I hear there is a night life in are as excited as the local arrange- ent from what many of us are used to Vegas that some astute sociologists ments committee and I are about this so I wanted to fill you in a bit. may want to do field research on. winter meeting. We plan to both Some traditional winter meeting (More of that in the next issue of learn a lot and have a good time while components will be reprised. We’ll Network News.) we lay the groundwork for feminist begin on Thursday at 5 with a wel- I have a request of the new mothers social change! coming reception and will continue the tradition of finding fun ways to get to know each other. Then we will sign up to go out in groups of 8-10 to sample some great Las Vegas restau- rants. We’ll have open roundtables on Friday and Saturday mornings so we can catch up on one another’s research. And, of course, we’ll have a couple of sessions for committees to meet. However, this meeting will be a departure in a couple of ways. We will spend most of Friday being trained to think like community organizers by Jackie Kendall of the Midwest Academy. On Saturday morning, we will learn from a panel of our colleagues about strategies they are using to make their research, teaching, and/or community service a bit more like community organizing and get some feedback from Jackie Kendall too. Then we will use the bulk of the business meeting time

4 SWS 2008 Winter Meeting February 7-10 Alexis Park Resort Las Vegas, Nevada Thinking Like Organizers as We Do Our Work

Most of us entered sociology because we wanted to help make the world a better place and we in SWS are committed to that cause. Community Organizers have a lot to teach us about ways to be more effective in supporting feminist social change both as an organization of feminist sociologists and in our local work and community lives. The Midwest Academy is the premier trainer of community organizers in the U.S. and its director, Jackie Kendall, will teach us the basics of community organizing and how to think strategically as an organization. Building on this introduction will be a session geared to help us make our research and teaching more empowering for the communities we want to serve.

We will also have regular paper sessions, the usual fun organizational work, an incredible banquet and, of course, some free time to enjoy Las Vegas.

The Alexis Park Resort is an oasis of calm and beauty across the street from the Hard Rock Café and just a ½ hour walk or a short shuttle ride from the big casinos on “The Strip.” All of the rooms are recently remodeled suites and we have an incredible rate for this location--$109 for one person and $20 for each additional person up to a maximum of 4 in a room. Make sure to mention SWS to secure this rate, which extends for 3 days before and after our meeting.

The deadline for reservations is January 8, 2008. However, we may have a larger attendance than usual so we strongly advise you to reserve your room by early December to make sure you get a room in our block.

To make your reservation call the hotel at: (800-582-2228) and ask for the Sociologists for Women in Society group block. Visit the hotel here: http://alexispark.com/

Check out these great features: * All the rooms are suites! * No gaming on site * Really nice lobby with good space for mingling * Great location * Only a $7 cab ride from the airport!

5 2007 Recipient of ASA’s Jessie Bernard Career Award

Editor’s Note: the 1980s she broke ground in studying the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), The ASA Jessie Bernard Award is given conditions that foster violence against and in 2001 she was awarded the in recognition of scholarly work that has women; in the 1990s, she became a leader Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award, expanded the horizons of sociology to in studying organizational process, gender also from SWS. She has an accomplished encompass fully the role of women in soci- relations and identity. Her work on gender service record in the American Sociological ety. It is presented for significant cumula- has also long been noted for the inclusion Association, has served as President of the tive work done throughout a professional of studying men as being at least as impor- Southern Sociological Society in 2002- career. The award is open to women or tant as studying women. Her current 2003, and is a prominent and well-regarded men and is not restricted to sociologists. research on masculinity as used in corpo- member of SWS, the Society for the Study Not surprisingly, many SWS members (and rate settings for a variety of collective goals of Social Problems, and the International past presidents) have received the Jessie is a continuation of this interest. Looking at Sociological Association. She also has an Bernard Award (Margaret Anderson, how men in groups do not “see” women in admirable record of service at the universi- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Myra Marx Ferree, ty, community and state level. Cynthia Epstein, Judith Lorber, Joan Pat Martin’s teaching contributions to Acker, to name a few). This year’s recipi- gender scholarship have been tremendous. ent is SWS member Patricia Yancey She has helped to prepare a new generation Martin. Below is the announcement ASA of feminist scholars, not only at her own sent out for this year’s winner. Network institution but by mentoring and supporting News thanks Sally Hillsman, ASA young scholars around the country. At Executive Officer, for permission to reprint Florida State, for example, Martin has a portion of the announcement. chaired 20 dissertation committees and served on over 50 others; she has also chaired 9 thesis committees, and served on atricia Yancey Martin, Professor over 20 additional ones. With four universi- of Sociology and Department ty-wide teaching awards under her belt, she Chair,PP at Florida State University, is the clearly knows how to teach, but note also 2007 recipient of ASA’s Jessie Bernard that this acclaimed teaching comes in both Career Award. Pat Martin has a terrific and research methods and gender courses and at well-deserved reputation as an activist, both the graduate and undergraduate level. mentor, and scholar, whose work is at the She frequently publishes with her students forefront of studies of gender. Her career and continues to support them as junior fac- has been path-breaking in helping us to the way that women perceive and accom- ulty in other schools. Junior faculty mem- understand gender as an institution, rather modate to men and their interests gives rise bers report that Martin congratulates them than as simply a form of stratification. to a variety of interesting new questions whenever she sees progress they have Martin’s research on masculinity in her about gender perceptions and organization- made, and has always been willing to assist studies of fraternal gang rape and her writ- al processes. them, despite her own busy research, teach- ings on gender and complex organizations `Her newest book, Rape Work is an out- ing, and administrative life. stand as classics in the field. She has tire- growth of her decades of study of rape pro- Patricia Yancey Martin is the sort of emi- lessly nurtured several generations of cessing in organizations, assessing the fac- nent gender scholar whose entire career has future scholars, has established a reputation tors that contribute to making local commu- demonstrated the depth of her commitment as a particularly active mentor of women nities more responsive to the victims in to feminist ideals. Her scholarship on the scholars even of her own generation, has rape cases. Pat Martin shows how the gender practices of both men and women, fought for pay equity for women in her organization of hospitals, police stations on the politics of rape, and on the organiza- own university, and has promoted gender and courts has unanticipated consequences. tional contexts in which male dominance is equity through her service to a wide range Those few hospitals who use nurse-practi- institutionalized (and yet can still be chal- of regional and national professional tioners to administer the rape kit are there- lenged) has been at the forefront of the field organizations. Martin has also been an fore more responsive to rape victims’ for thirty years and remains the gold stan- active contributor to public sociology needs, not because of the gender of the dard. Her teaching, mentoring and commu- through consulting with numerous agen- care-giver (women doctors are often least nity activism at the state and university cies focused on sexual violence, and her responsive), but because the organizational level have been crucial in improving research illustrates that it is possible to factors allow prompter responses and more women’s lives. Martin’s career reflects the combine the advancement of basic knowl- time with the victim. generosity of spirit, the personal integrity, edge with a commitment to social justice. Martin has been recognized nationally and the commitment to public sociology for In the 1970s, she led the way in studies of for her gender work. In 2006 she received which Jessie Bernard stood. Jessie would what were then called sex role attitudes; in the Feminist Activism Award, from certainly have been proud of her.

6 The Life and Work of Jessie Bernard

Editor’s Note: own research on academic women, black tivism. In her freshman year, Jessie It has been mentioned that there are many women, and early American frontier Bernard audited a sociology class of anoth- SWS members who are not familiar with the women) by her emigration to the United er prominent sociology professor, Luther work of Jessie Bernard and her contribu- States as a young widow in the late 1880s. Lee Bernard, 21 years her senior, whom tions to feminist scholarship. With the Leaving her two grown sons behind in she served as a research assistant and, in announcement of the 2007 ASA Jessie Romania, Bettsy Kanter traveled from 1925, married. The marriage occurred in Bernard Award recipient, long-time SWS Transylvania to New York, accompanied defiance of her family’s serious objections member Pat Martin, Network News pro- only by her preadolescent daughter, Bessie. to age and religious differences. During the vides background on the life and work of Bessie Kanter, later the mother of Jessie 21 years of their marriage, L. L. Bernard pioneer Jessie Bernard. This article first Bernard, worked as a young girl in the created a personal and intellectual milieu appeared in the International Encyclopedia New York garment district, demonstrating infused with social positivism within of the Behavioral and Social Sciences in her own pioneering mettle by marching for which Bernard grew to maturity, but then 2000. Network News appreciates Jean women’s suffrage and chafing against her ineluctably renounced. L. L. Bernard, with Lipman-Blumen’s permission to reprint her mother’s refusal to let her join the union. whom Jessie Bernard, as a graduate student article. Almost six years later, when the brothers in at Washington University, coauthored Romania had arranged a suitable marriage Sociologyand the Study of International By: Jean Lipman-Blumen for their sister, both Bessie Kanter and her Relations (1934) and Origins of American mother returned to their native country, Sociology (1943), was a sociological heir oth Jessie Bernard’s life history where Bessie married David Solomon to Auguste Comte’s nineteenth-century and her sociological contributions Ravitch, a local candle maker. Shortly social positivism. She received her PH.D. BB emanate reasonable, but unyield- thereafter, the young couple and Bettsy from Washington University in 1935. ing, defiance—defiance of family tradition, Kanter returned to the United States, this It was on this intellectual foundation of life styles, occupational trajectories, socio- time, as the 1900 census records, settling in social positivism that L. L. Bernard based logical paradigms, and popular myths, as Minneapolis, where the bridegroom’s his belief in social science’s potential— well as age-related patterns. In the l4 solo brother lived (a pattern of immigration through scientific, particularly mathemati- books, 7 coauthored or edited volumes, 5 Bernard describes in an anonymously cal, methods—for objectively determining chapters for other authors’ or editors’ authored article, “An Analysis of Jewish “the best way to achieve desired societal books, and the 60-odd journal articles, her Culture” (1942b]). Even after Bessie and ends” (1978, p. 130). Thus, social posi- humane, but unflinching, examination of David Ravitch had their own family of four tivism was to transfuse Jessie Bernard’s the “givens*’ of sociological, and often children, Bettsy Kanter reigned as the personal and sociological perspective for psychological, historical, and political, “cheerful, industrious, pious” matriarch of almost two decades, from her undergradu- phenomena bespeak challenge and critical the family. ate days and early graduate work at analysis of the status quo. Bernard’s Jewish cultural heritage, dis- Minnesota through her doctoral work at Bernard’s unpretentious style, in her pensed —in daily prayers and rituals—by Washington University, where she was written work as well as in her personal and her grandmother, was counterpointed by trained “strictly in the measurement tradi- professional life, has created a medium in the “Americanization” practices which her tion” (personal communication, 1979). which her often defiant, even radical, mes- older sister, Clara, another pioneering Only the mid-1940s, the shock of the Nazi sage ultimately is attended without arous- influence, brought home from public Holocaust ultimately evoked her disbelief, ing resistance. Her private history may be school. The acculturation Bernard experi- denial, and defection—intellectually, from read as a contrapuntal theme of amiable, enced through her sister, whom she regard- the social positivist paradigm, and emo- but undaunted, rebellion against the expec- ed as second generation (compared to her tionally, from her mentor-husband, who tations that family and society pressed own second-and-a-half generation status) personified that position. upon a female born shortly after the turn of (1978, p. 327), served as a firsthand model The death of 69-year-old L. L. Bernard the century and living through two world for understanding and empathizing with in 1951 left Bernard responsible for their wars and the subsequent societal upheavals the American acculturation experience of three young children. Thus, she personally that were to mark the second half of the black generations in the postslavery years. became a reluctant pioneer in new socio- twentieth century. It was Clara Ravitch who “pioneered the logical territory—the female-headed fami- Early background. Born in Minneapolis, way” (1978, p. xix) for Bernard, not yet 17 ly, which was to become a major family June 8, 1903, to parents of Romanian years old, to enter the University of pattern of the future, as well as a focus of Jewish heritage, Jessie Bernard was the Minnesota, in January 1920, where she her own research. Again, Bernard’s person- third of Bessie Kanter and David Solomon was a student of Pitirim Sorokin, Alvin al life as widow and female family head Ravitch’s four children. Her maternal Hanson, N. S. B. Gras, and Karl Lashley, provided the experiential background for grandmother, Bettsy Kanter, set an early all before they left for teaching posts at empathetic and insightful understanding of model of feminine pioneering (a topic Harvard University. a major emerging sociological problem. which later was to concern Bernard in her Adulthood, marriage, and social posi- ...continued on page 8

7 ...continued from page 7 was intrinsically good” (p. 131). Although cism leveled against it. AcademicWomen The beginnings of an independent her faith in social science’s capacity to scrutinized the factors—both formal and career. Since her arrival with an aging shape the social order was extinguished, informal—that accounted for women’s scholar-husband at Pennsylvania State Bernard’s reliance on research findings as subordinate role in academia, before con- University in 1947, Jessie Bernard had the best, or only available, evidence cluding that sex was more salient than role been assisted in academia by another soci- remained a hallmark of her scholarly trea- as a status determinant. Bernard accounts ologist, Seth Russell, the chairman of the tises on dating, marriage, mating, mother- for women’s unequal condition in terms of sociology department and later, Associate hood, divorce, remarriage, and female cul- their propensity to teach in colleges rather Dean. Under Russell’s protective guidance, ture. than universities, to teach rather than Bernard “shot . . . up the academic ladder After Bernard’s year in Europe, she undertake research, to act as bearers or to the top in record time” (1978, p. 5). returned to Pennsylvania State, where she transmitters of established knowledge During L. L. Bernard’s declining days and continued to work on two new volumes, rather than “men of knowledge,” to follow last illness, Russell developed a closed the first study of Remarriage: A Study of patiently rather than innovate boldly— relationship with the family, becoming a Marriage (19570) and Social Problems at without tracing the discriminatory prac- father surrogate, particularly to the Mid-century: Role, Status, and Stress in a tices that force women into such “choices.” youngest child. During the ensuing two- Context of Abundance (1957b). A year as a Bernard recognizes that scientific produc- and-one-half years, Bernard relied on visiting professor at Princeton University tivity is a function of a researcher’s posi- Russell for emotional and familial help; (1959/1960), the first year in which women tion in the communication system rather however, by the fall of 1953, with her were allowed to enter the front door of the than of his or her sex. And she describes youngest child in tow, Bernard had left for university library, proved lo be a lonely the “stag effect,” a subtle, process exclud- Europe to study postwar trends in socio- and difficult experience. She later recalled ing women from the informal communica- logical research and to mend her emotion- smiling in the faculty club at faces that did tion system along which emerging scientif- al wounds. not smile back. The next year, Bernard ic knowledge is disseminated. Although Before coming to Pennsylvania State, moved to Washington, D.C., where she Bernard described the palpable procedures Bernard published her first solo book spent her sabbatical year. From 1962 to and processes of sexism (a term not yet American Family Behavior (1942a), and in 1964, she commuted from Washington to coined), she fell just shy of recognizing the early years in College Park, teach her classes at Pennsylvania State; them as the informal underpinnings of dis- Pennsylvania, she wrote American however, by 1964, she had decided to crimination. Despite highlighting the Community Behavior (1949a). In both vol- abandon the constraints of academic life, informal mechanisms by which women in umes there is a “preview of things to where she sensed it was necessary to “cen- academia were prevented from developing come,” a foreshadowing of later work in sor [her] ideas to fit the pattern of ideas their natural academic potential, she con- the early efforts to measure how well the surrounding [her]” (personal communica- cluded that no formal or structural discrim- American family was performing its sever- tion, 1979). ination existed in the Halls of Ivy. al functions, success in marriage, and the Academic women and a new intellec- Bernard’s analysis of the “stag effect’s” degree of “institutionalization” of marriage tual thrust. Bernard’s break from acade- preclusion of women from the informal and family norms, topics in which Bernard mia came almost simultaneously with the academic communication network and her would maintain a lifelong, but expanding publication of her most significant work to awareness of the relationship between interest. that time, Academic Women (1964). This innovation and a public of peers did not yet Renunciation of social positivism and study of women in academia, which include an unequivocal recognition of the academia. Bernard’s first major intellec- received the Pennsylvania State University underbelly of discrimination. In Academic tual defiance—against social positivism— Bell award and later the Kappa Gamma Women, Bernard senses the presence, but had left a permanent residue of skepticism honorary award, heralded a new thrust in does not yet perceive, as she will in her about social science’s potential for chang- intellectual energy and direction; however, later works, the crippling relationship ing the social order according to any as Bernard herself perceived, the academic between the informal practices and atti- rational plan. The trail of Bernard’s disen- Establishment responded initially with “a tudes of sexism and the formal structural chantment with the “social-salvation- great big yawn” ([1964] 1974, p. xxvii). manifestations of discrimination. through-science creed” is traced in a series Academic Women explored the condition Academic Women touched the beachhead of articles between 1947 and 1950 (1947; of women who taught and conducted of concern about women’s condition in 1949b; 1949c; 1949d; 1949e; 1950a; research in academe, dispassionately society just ahead of the swelling wave of 1950b). Later, in Self-portrait of a Family examining the evidence for and against feminism. The radical feminists railed (1978), she recall her disillusionment in a discrimination. In addressing the question against Bernard’s conclusion that no for- “faith” she had not questioned for more of discrimination ahead of the tide, it pre- mal discrimination existed and identified than 25 years: “It took a catastrophe as saged Bernard’s later attempts to identify the informal and subtle processes she had overwhelming as the Nazi Holocaust to and deal with significant social issues- sensed and described—but not recog- shake that faith. A whole network of intel- abortion, battered women, child abuse, the nized—as “sexism.” After her own conver- lectual, emotional, and moral roots were culture of poverty, female-headed families, sion to a feminist perspective, Bernard dug up and exposed in the process. The and sexism— before they had become the would side with her critics and applaud faith on which I had built a life was shak- incendiary social questions of the day. their deserved critique. But Academic en, the nineteenth-century faith in the Among her most influential works, both Women was the beginning of a new surge benign nature of science, a belief that it despite and because of the feminist criti- ...continued on page 9 8 ...continued from page 8 ed from her husband’s marriage. Later, in that both males and females are capable of of intellectual strength, which even the The Female World, the concept depicted in stroking (or expressive) as well as instru- male-dominated academic Establishment the title is elaborated to include a complex mental behavior, she notes that women’s could no longer ignore. analysis of women’s station, sphere, social specialization in stroking in most cultures Major themes and patterns. Over the class, and culture. Now not only do women throughout the world contributes to their next14 years, Bernard’s work gained a new live in different marriages than their hus- subordinate position. Harking back to the momentum, eventually breaking through bands, but they live in different families, Bales (1950) instrumental—expressive the functionalist (although not Parsonian) educational systems, social strata, occupa- dichotomy, she describes stroking as paradigm that had held mainstream sociol- tional structures, political and cultural expressive, supportive behavior in, which ogy in its thrall and entering the new ter- realms, as well. In short, from the time the stroker “shows solidarity, raises the sta- rain of the feminist perspective. they enter their first “pink world,” women tus of others, gives help, rewards, agrees, (Parenthetically, it is relevant to note live in the female world—a highly struc- concurs, complies, understands, passively Bernard’s defiance of the mythology about tured society. accepts” (1973, pp. 88-89). Such stroking age and creativity.) Beginning in her sixth Bernard does not deny that women also behavior, Bernard argues, is incompatible decade, long after conventional wisdom live in the world of men, simply that they with high-level occupational roles, in would have us believe creativity is quelled, are not “of” that male world, in much the which instrumental, aggressive, and often she began to mine a new, related, richer same way that an American living in Paris competitive behavior is required. sociological vein that would prove to be is not a bona fide Frenchman. The anatomy Bernard then introduces the “cichlid her strongest and most prodigious intellec- of the female world’s unique class struc- effect,” stemming from Lorenz’ descrip- tual contribution. ture is probed, and Bernard suggests that tion (1963) of cichlid fish, a species in A chronological review of four decades the very subconcepts underlying the notion which the male’s sexual drive is extin- of Bernard’s work reveals complex recur- of social class (long accepted in main- guished by fear of his partner, and the rent patterns. Themes touched upon in her stream—read “male”—sociology and female’s sexuality is similarly affected by early work reemerge later, each time with applied to the male world) fail to reflect the lack of awe for her male partner. Women, greater maturity and enlarged understand- class structure of the complex world with- she argues, are denuded of their aggres- ing. The seeds of later books can be seen as in which women spend much of their lives. sion, held in awe of males by their assign- they are unconsciously planted, often three Other major themes weave in and out the ment to the subordinate stroking or sup- or four volumes earlier. Ideas and insights fabric of Bernard’s work: formal vs. infor- portive role—all in the name of sexuality, first appear, as grains of sand in an oyster, mal discrimination; power; women as a male and female alike. Bernard traces the then begin to expand, creating an irritating, subordinate, dependent group; “stroking” crippling that depriving women of aggres- insistent presence, finally culminating in as a fundamental unit of social action; the sion inflicts on their achievement and cre- an independent entity—a new volume. conflict between women’s family and work ative potential and suggests that very high A case in point is Bernard’s treatment of roles; sexism as power relationships; the achieving women are the primary victims. biculturality, first discussed in terms of deteriorating effect of housework and total Why, she asks, do all women have to ran- Jewish immigrants in America (1942c). responsibility for child care on women’s som sexuality by subordination and She later expands this theme in Marriage mental health; homosociality; sex differ- dependency? Why do women have to sac- and Family Among Negroes (1966) by ences, including typical vs. characteristic rifice achievement vis-à-vis men with developing the notion of two black cul- differences between males and females; whom they have no sexual relationships? tures—the externally adapted and the biological sex roles vs. cultural gender Stroking, the behavior that addresses the acculturated—within the larger white con- roles; the function of stereotypes as mech- cichlid effect, is not single-handedly text. anisms for papering over the lack of fit responsible for women’s inequality, The Sex Game (1968b), an interactionist between gender roles and individual differ- according to Bernard; however, “taken in approach to communication between the ences; tipping points and turning points; conjunction with other aspects of the sexes, returns to the bicultural motif. Here social policy as an instrument for alleviat- ‘sphere of women’ . . . [stroking] is a recipe Bernard elaborates the concept to depict ing the disadvantages women face; the his- for subservience” (1971, p. 94). the sexes as two large, relatively unstruc- torical youthfulness of the nuclear family; By the very next year, Bernard had tured collectivities living in sexual and the “cichlid effect.” moved beyond the cichlid effect in her apartheid, beset by the difficulties common This recurrent and intensified explo- explanation of women’s subordination and to discourse between inhabitants of differ- ration of themes, particularly since the its link to the stroking function. In The ent cultures. In Women and the Public appearance of Academic Women, repre- Future of Marriage (1972), she makes an Interest: An Essay on Policy and Protest sents a relentless search for new under- important distinction between the physical (1971), a variation of the bicultural theme standing, even when that enhanced percep- power of men and the male mystique, is introduced: women’s sphere. This variation would require relinquishing comfort- which identifies it with sexuality . . . If tion is further explored the following year able metaphors and previous interpreta- power is measured as the ability to conquer in The Future of Marriage (1972) probably tions. Thus, in Women and the Public a woman and if masculinity is defined as her most widely read published work. Here Interest: An Essay on Policy and Protest, such power, the subjugation of women is Bernard conceptualizes each marital union Bernard discusses the pervasive influence demanded for potency. And, in fact, such a as composed of two different, noncoincid- of the “stroking” or supportive function definition of masculinity has characterized ing marriages or worlds, in which the wife performed by females. the male mystique for centuries. From time inhabits her own sphere, distinct and isolat- Although Bernard marshals evidence ...continued on page 10 9 ...continued from page 9 remain aloof, through that single distorting debunked the notion that black family immemorial, therefore, sex has meant lens. Missing, until the feminist perspec- structure was typically “broken.” By care- power to men . . . The very term impotence tive developed, was the female lens, the ful, scholarly use of census data, she betrays the power component in the male second lens essential to complete the social demonstrated that the modal black family mystique, (pp.168-69) stereoscope through which the images of structure consisted of a marital union Feminist paradigm shift. Replacing the two worlds could be combined to pro- between original spouses living with and the cichlid effect concept with the equation duce the realistic depth, compassion, and caring for their own offspring. She traces between masculine power and subjugation involvement of reality. the profound influence of the history of of women was an insight born of her break- Since that important paradigmatic shift, slavery and racism on the relationship through to a feminist paradigm. As she Bernard has studied the female world between black women and men. Although recounts in the autobiographical note in through the feminist prism, insisting upon she perceives the black female as an unwit- The Future of Marriage (1972, afterword, showing her audience, reasonably but firm- ting participant in the travail of black men, pp. 329-330), during the gestation of that ly, previously unseen structures. she more properly attributes the condition work, she had her consciousness painfully Deliberately casting only occasional confronting blacks to urbanization, with its and wrenchingly raised to the feminist per- glances toward the male world, Bernard crowding, mobility, and discontinuities, as spective. In the late 1960s, a growing fem- reports the new feminist historical discov- well as to unemployment and poverty. inist consciousness had begun to infuse the eries, speaking boldly for the emerging Bernard’s empathetic analysis of black scholarship of radical women, the same options that will reduce the loss of women society within a white environment (echo- radical scholars and activists who had to meaningless relationships and empty, lit- ing her earlier writing about immigrant taken her to task for failing to take that erally maddening lives. The Female World Jews)— albeit with some interpretations important next step in Academic Women. is an incisive examination of the worlds in she would now reject—led a number of her Just as Bernard had moved agonizingly, which women have lived separated from black readers to conclude that Bernard her- but irrevocably, from the social positivism men—their own world of family, friend- self, was black. She hails the importance of her first two decades of scholarship, ships, education, occupations, childbirth and predicts the rise of black racial pride now she was able to make an analogous and illness, politics, art, and death. Bernard and suggests that the self-emancipation of quantum leap from a functionalist to a fem- concludes the ambience of the female blacks is the critical treatment for the black inist perspective. After this new paradig- world is sadness; however, she makes no male’s wounds. matic shift, she was able to look back at apologia for women or for the sex differ- Another major myth that Bernard Academic Women, describing it as a study ences whose irreducibility she has insisted explodes is the fiction that marriage and “conceived, researched, and written in the upon both before and after her feminist motherhood are desirable for women. In old-fashioned scientific and scholarly tra- conversion. The Future of Marriage and The Future of dition, quite well-mannered and subdued” The Female World is a serious, docu- Motherhood (1974), Bernard, with ([1964] 1974, p. xxvii). mentary celebration of women’s unique Durkheimian precision, carefully demon- Surveying sociological phenomena strengths and differences, on which strates that marriage benefits men more through a feminist prism cast a different, Bernard rests the chances for the future sal- than women and that the Western, more vivid spectrum of colors than vation of both men and women in a postin- Postindustrial structure of marriage, as Bernard had seen before. The cool “objec- dustrial society. Sex role transcendence well as motherhood, is deleterious to tivity” of social science could now be per- and shared roles may be the wave of the women’s mental health. ceived more objectively as a distortion, a future as Bernard predicted (1972; 1974; Analogous to her foresight in identifying rationalization for remaining emotionally 1975; Lipman-Blumen & Bernard 1979), timely substantive issues is Bernard’s uninvolved in the fundamental inequities but now the entire panoply of the female anticipation of methodological strategies and moral dilemmas of social life. Value world with its complicated structure and ahead of the trends. As early as 1966, she judgments implicit in the selection of ethos, past and present, is dealt with in still advocated investigations of the differential research topics suddenly became obvious, well-mannered, but this time unsubdued, experiences of groups born or socialized at and social scientists’ responsibility for tones. different points in history, the method to be helping to redress the gaping social dispar- An eclectic perspective ahead of her raised to recent prominence under the label ities could no longer be denied—a new time. Earlier in this essay, Bernard’s of “cohort analysis.” Her early call for lon- variation on an earlier social positivism, an propensity to move ahead of her time in gitudinal studies to offset the distortions of integration of previous positions. Social addressing the key issues that were to con- cross-cultural research was ahead of the science now could be diagnosed as part of cern scholars and policy makers was noted. vogue. Earlier still, in 1964, Bernard was the problem, the same social science that, Her research was groundbreaking, not sim- using cross-national data to make key com- in its scholarly cool, dispassionate stance ply in terms of issues per se, but also with parisons among academic women in the simply studied social problems and implic- respect to the strategies by which she Soviet Union, France, Italy, Britain, and itly accused, rather than helped, the vic- attacked her subject. Here, again, we see the United States—again, a methodologi- tims. her most salient intellectual characteris- cal approach which has since gained an Social science, long the bastion of tic—critical defiance of conventional impressive following. Establishment male dominance, had pos- beliefs and myths. Bernard’s scholarship is eclectic, spread- sessed only the male lens through which to A case in point is Marriage and Family ing over a wide range of substantive areas study society. Male and female researchers Among Negroes in which she laid bare the and using a complicated palette of method- alike had to view society, record its ills, but fallacies of the “black matriarchy” and ...continued on page 11 10 ...continued from page 10 Sex Game, Bernard moves easily to an sented by Pennsylvania State University ologies. Stemming from her training in interactionist (although neither a Meadian (1976); the outstanding achievement award measurement, Bernard’s earliest work, nor Goffman disciple) perspective. And from the American Association of such as American Family Behavior her shift from social positivism to non- University Women (1976); honorary doc- (1942a), through The Future of Marriage Parsonian functionalism to feminism ulti- torates from Hood College, Northwestern utilizes macrodata, including macrostatis- mately seems a humanistic integration of University, Washington University, and tics from census and other government the strengths of each paradigm. Radcliffe College; the Stuart A. Rice merit reports, to compare the patterns of various Awards and Honors. Recognition of award from the District of Columbia sociological groups and to gauge the Jessie Bernard’s work as a major contribu- Sociological Association (1974), as well as strength and trends of sociological phe- tion to the discipline, as well as to the edu- the merit award of the Eastern Sociological nomena. Later, she turned to microdata in cation of general audience, has come from Society and the Burgess award from the the form of personal documents, the letters every quarter. Ironically, her ability to National Council of Family Relations she and her children exchanged over more speak lucidly and incisively to a larger (1973). than 25 years, in a courageously self- public, as well as to her social science col- Several awards have been established in revealing effort to chronicle the intimate leagues, probably delayed her inevitable Bernard’s name, awards designed to honor infrastructure of family life. In her work professional recognition. (She once face- those, who, like Jessie Bernard herself, on black marriage and family structure, as tiously warned a colleague whose work have contributed intellectually, profession- well as her most recent research on the had been cited in the popular press to ally, and humanely to the world of scholar- female world, Bernard focuses on blacks “shield your co-workers from this; how ship and feminism. Thus, the Jessie and women, respectively, deliberately giv- good can a sociologist be if she is worth Bernard awards, annual prizes established ing scant attention to comparisons with quoting in a popular magazine?” [personal by the American Sociological Association whites and men. Thus, she intentionally communication, 1978]). in 1976 and the District of Columbia eschews measurements of blacks com- Amiably defying professional customs Sociologists for Women in Society in pared to whites, women compared to men. and mores. Bernard declined nomination 1978, reflect the esteem in which her con- In defiance of traditional social science to the presidency of the American tributions-intellectual eclecticism, personal canons, Bernard makes a conscious Sociological Association, as well as to a courage, reasonable defiance, unpreten- attempt to see blacks as blacks (not as host of other organizational positions. tious humanity, and feminist sisterhood-are deviants from white patterns) and women Nonetheless, in recent years, she has been held. as women (not as would-be males). In The the recipient of the Kurt Lewin award pre-

WORKS BY BERNARD

Bernard, L. L.; and Bernard, Jessie Sociology and the Study of International Relations, St. Louis, Mo: Washington University Studies. (1942a) 1973 American Family Behavior. New York: Russell. Includes a new introduction. 1942b An Analysis of Jewish Culture. Pages 243-263 in Isacque Graeber and S.H. Britt (editors), Jews in a Gentile World. New York: Mcmillan.Published anonymously. 1942c Biculturality: A Study in Social Schizophrenia. Pages 264-293 in Isacque Graeber and S.H. Britt (editors), Jews in a Gentile World. New York: Mcmillan 1943 BERNARD, L. L.; and BERNARD, JESSIE. Origins of American Sociology: The Social Science Movement in the United States. New York: Crowell. Social Salvation Through Science, South Atlantic Quarterly 46:44-55. (1949a) 1962. American Community Behavior: An Analysis of Problems Confronting American Communities Today. Rev. ed. New York: Holt. 1949b The Art of Science: A Reply to Redfield. American Journal of Sociology 55:1-9. 1949c A Note on Sociological Research as a Factor in Social Change: The Reception of the Kinsey Report. Social Forces 38:188-190. 1949d The Power of Science and the Science of Power. American Sociological Review 14:575-584.

1949e Prescriptions for Peace: Social Science Chimera? Ethics 59:244-256.

1950a Can Science Transcend Culture? Science Monthly 71:268-273. 1950b The Validation of Normative Social Theory. Journal of Philosophy 47:481-493. (1957a) 1971 Remarriage: A Study of Marriage, New York: Russell.Includes a new introduction. 1957b Social Problems at Mid-century: Role, Status, and Stress in a Context of Abundance. New York: Dryden. (1964) 1974 Academic Women. New York: Meridian, 1966 Marriage and Family Among Negroes. Englewood Cliffs, N.I: Prentice-Hall. 1968a Community: 11. Community Disorganization. Volume 3, pages 163-369 in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Edited by David L. Sills. New York: Macmillan and Free Press. 1968b The Sex Game: Communication Between the Sexes. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, -> A paperback edition was published by Atheneum in 1972. Women and the Public Interest: An Essay on Policy and Protest. Chicago: Aldinc-Atherton. The Future of Marriage. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company. à A paperback edition was published by Bantam in 1973. The Sociology of Community. Glenview, IL: Scott-Foresman The Future of Motherhood. New York: Dial. A paperback edition was published by Penguin in 1975 Women, Wives, Mothers: Values and Options. Chicago: Aldine. Self-portrait of a Family. Boston: Beason Press. Lipman-Blumen, Jean; and Bernard, Jessie Sex Roles and Social Polity. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage. The Female World. New York: Free Press. 11 The 2007 Feminist Activism Award to Professor Carroll Estes

n behalf of the members of SWS, scholars in the areas of aging, long term 1997 she served as a Consultant to the the Awards Committee is pleased care, child health, health economics, Commissioner of the US Social toOO present the 2007 Feminist Activism health & diversity, and substance abuse Security Administration. In recent Award to Professor Carroll Estes. policy.” years, Carroll has also been an active Carroll, now Professor Emerita in the In addition to her work at IHA, member of the Women’s Task Force of Department of Social and Behavioral the Gerontological Society of Sciences and the Institute of Health and America, holding several leadership Aging (IHA) at UC-San Francisco, is prob- positions, and of the Older Women’s ably best known for her pioneering work League. and extensive scholarship in the field of Carroll has particularly been an gerontology. activist in working to protect Social As a young UCSF faculty member, she Security. She served as Vice-Chair on established the Aging and Health Policy the Board of Directors of the National Center within the School of Nursing and, Committee to Preserve Social Security under her guidance, it evolved into the and Medicare, and is a member and Institute of Health and Aging. IHA is now co-founder of the activist group, a UC-system wide research unit that hous- Concerned Scientists in Aging and es five research centers, among them the Students for Social Security. Carroll first national Lesbian Health Research has provided testimony and consulta- Center. Carroll served as Director for IHA tion for three decades to the US House between 1979 and 1998 and her involve- and Senate Committees, and is cur- ment with IHA, which now has more than rently consulting with Congressional $14 million in funding, has continued. representatives Nancy Pelosi and Nearly one-fourth of the IHA budget is Barbara Boxer on how women might devoted to research on women’s health, be affected if social security is priva- and more than 50% to aging and long-term tized. As one nominator wrote: “I am care, issues that greatly affect women continually inspired by Carroll’s tire- because they make up the majority of the Carroll has held many professional less energy for social justice, her elderly population. And, as one letter of leadership positions. For example, vision of gender equality, her generos- recommendation noted, it has fostered the between 2001 and 2007 she was ity of spirit and, of course, her incred- careers of many women: Senior Technical Advisor on Health ible scholarly and professional “Because of [Professor Estes’] extraordi- Aging at the California Endowment; record.” nary leadership, the IHA has served as the from 1981-1992 she was chair of the We are, too, and it is our honor to beginning of interdisciplinary research UCSF Department of Social and present to Professor Carroll Estes the careers and the home to countless women Behavioral Sciences, and in 1996 and SWS 2007 Feminist Activism Award.

2007-08 SWS MFP Scholar

he 2007-08 SWS MFP Scholar is projects focus on regional cultures and young and Postmodernism,” published by the Hooks Zandria F. Robinson. Zandria is a black women’s repro- Institute Working Paper Series, Contemporary doctoralTT student in the Department of ductive decision-mak- Frontiers in Civil Rights and Social Justice. Sociology at Northwestern University. A ing processes. She is co-author with Wanda Rushing of a native of Memphis, Tennessee, she earned During her tenure as chapter in African Americans and Whites: the Bachelor of Arts in English and African an MA student, Changing Relationships on College and African American Studies in 2003 and Zandria served as a Campuses (2006, University Press of the Master of Arts in Sociology in 2005 Graduate Fellow with America). from the University of Memphis. Her gen- the Benjamin L. Zandria is also a classically trained violinist eral research interests include epistemolo- Hooks Institute for and taught violin throughout high school and gy and social theory, urban sociology, race, Social Change and received a grant for college to children who traditionally do not class, gender, and sexuality, and the sociol- research for her working paper, “Stratification have access to such lessons. She has a daugh- ogy of culture. Zandria’s current research Processes in the City Schools: Race, Property ter, Assata, age 4.

12 Cecilia L. Ridgeway- 2008 SWS Feminist Lecturer Award

ecilia Ridgeway is the Lucie Stern always insisted on the generalizability of gender and other forms of group status, and Professor of Social Sciences at her claims about status value and expecta- the interactions between gender and other StanfordCC University where she has taught tion states. This means that her work is also forms of power and entitlement, her since 1991. well designed to incorporate race, class and research has provided a sound empirical Specializing in social psychology and other forms of inequality in social status base for challenging these relationships in gender, Cecilia has been the leader in practice. Moreover, her empirical work has rethinking the social psychology of gender extended beyond the laboratory to consid- and move it beyond a simplistic sex roles er how the status issues intertwined with socialization model to understanding the gender are played out in practice in work- interactive effect of the social environment places, both corporate and academic, and (in the form of diffuse and group-specific considered explicitly what kinds of poli- social status) with the mental processes of cies for change would be more or less individuals in that environment (in the effective given what we understand about form of norms and beliefs about gender the social psychological dynamics that and gender specific expectations about the anchor current gender relations. Her self). This focus on interaction produces a review essay in Contemporary Sociology complex and dynamic model that she has (2000) is just the most tight and trenchant developed theoretically and tested empiri- example of an overall argument about how cally in a large number of articles and syn- feminist change can effectively happen in thesized in several books as well. In effect, the social groups where we live most of our Cecilia has taken the key issue of the “per- lives. formativity” of gender and concretely Her research on gender is also a great operationalized this in ways that allow her model of feminist scholarship in the ways to study interaction in the lab as well as in in which she has engaged her graduate stu- naturally occurring settings. into the same models of social psychology. dents in joint ventures and trained the next This contribution has been noted and The new article on expectation states theo- generation of feminist social psycholo- rewarded in the discipline at large, though ry in the prestigious Handbook of Social gists. A cursory look at her vita since 1990 such honors as being elected chair of the Psychology and her edited volume on shows she averaged close to an article per social psychology section of ASA and Gender, Interaction and Inequality are per- year co-authored with one of her students, being selected to edit its journal, Social haps the best summary indicators of the and several of her students have gone on to Psychology Quarterly, serving as president overall strength of her contributions in this be leading voices in the new wave of fem- of the Pacific Sociological Association, area. inist scholarship on the social psychology and as a council member for the Theory Cecilia’s work on the social psychology of gender. So her establishment of new section and on the editorial board of of gender has always shown a strongly ways of looking at gender in interaction is Sociological Theory. Her work on gender feminist orientation because it is both not going to be ephemeral, but is already has been recognized as theoretically signif- about power and geared toward social rooted in the discipline through the ways icant for the overall social psychology of change. By identifying the ways that power her students and others have taken up the the person rather than left marginalized in in groups is expressed and made effective, models and tools that she has provided and a corner, in part because Cecilia herself has the similarities and differences between extended and applied them. SWS 2007 Women of Color Dissertation Scholarship Award WS is pleased to announce that Her dissertation is a comparative analysis questions about immigration and its con- Maria Olivia Salcido is the first of both Latina and non-Latina U.S. born nection to criminal justice policies. Her recipientSS of the Women of Color Dissertation and Latino foreign-born women who are long-term goals are to pursue an academic Scholarship Award. The award includes survivors of domestic violence. She hopes career while also using her research to $15,000 in order to complete the dissertation to gain a greater understanding of how the develop and promote forums that link the research. Ms. Salcido is currently a doctoral criminal justice system responds victims needs of immigrant communities to candidate in the school of Justice and Social and survivors of domestic violence. Ms. resources at both the domestic and interna- Inquiry at Arizona State University. Salcido’s dissertation raises important tional level.

13 Linda Grant and Barbara Risman 2007 SWS Feminist Mentoring Award Recipients

his year the SWS Mentoring Award that were on-going and self-sustaining, and tive award illustrates just how impressive Committee - Lora Lempert, Judith her positioning as both a ‘mover and shak- their consistent, compassionate, and Wittner,TT Kathleen Slobin, and Ann er’ in institutional settings and in the important work is for their colleagues, their Goetting – had the honor and pleasure of broader fields of sociological influence. universities, and their surrounding commu- unanimously selecting two co-recipients One of her nominators summarized nities. The contributions of Linda Grant for this award. In the opinion of the com- and Barbara Risman are fruitful both inter- mittee, both Linda Grant and Barbara personally and for sociology. Linda and Risman embody the depth and breadth of Barbara are generous and hard-working in ways in which feminist mentoring is prac- their mentoring of others, as well as in their ticed. Their mentoring practices include teaching and research contributions. not only anticipating needs and providing As evidence of their clear and continu- concrete guidance and feedback for junior ous service, scholarship, and general good- colleagues, but also compassion and guid- will on behalf of women, the committee ance with regard to feminist concerns; offers a brief selection from the nominating helping colleagues (junior, peer, and sen- narratives of these two outstanding men- ior) to write and effectively communicate tors. Their nomination letters reflected as authors, activists and teachers; provid- contributions from sociologists all over the ing support, strategies and models for bal- country and at various stages in their ancing family and work; offering gendered careers, demonstrating yet again their wide understandings of institutional biases and ranging inclusivity. strategies for overcoming them; building About teaching: formal and informal institutions that sup- Linda Grant: “I learned how to teach dif- port feminist interests (personal, career, ficult courses and maintain high and reach- research and teaching); and embracing a able expectations at the undergraduate and philosophy and practice of inclusion inside graduate levels. Gender courses have great academia, especially with those most mar- potential to raise student ire, and Linda ginalized. demonstrated calmly and surely the impor- Linda Grant’s service to her fellow tance of employing multiple attempts to scholars and the academy is exemplary and teach course concepts, patience with the defining of all of the above. The commit- unevenness of student comprehension in tee was impressed by Professor Grant’s the classroom, and provided clear ways scholarly and personal support of women with which to deal with student hostility.” within academia at all levels, her capacity Linda Grant: ‘When I get impatient with and skill at creating institutional practices the demands of teaching and want to take that effectively link academics at all levels, shortcuts so I can get back to my ‘real’ and the ways in which she combines the Barbara’s influence succinctly: work (i.e., research), I think of Linda, and best of intellect and passion to inspire “Barbara’s work on gender has impact- how her door is never closed to me or any achievement and personal growth and ed the field of sociology in general, and she other student, and how she seamlessly change among women in all locations has been instrumental in shaping my incorporates teaching, research, mentoring, within the academy. The following quota- career in particular. I feel that this combi- and scholarship. This is what it means to be tion from one of her nominating letters nation of individual mentoring plus trans- a feminist teacher, and I strike to emulate illustrates the general tenor of the others: formative scholarship makes her a truly Linda in this regard. I’ve stopped short of “She so keenly understands the complex- instrumental leader in SWS and in sociolo- sporting a ‘WWLD?’ bracelet, but the ities of being an academic and an activist, gy. She shapes us through her research, thought has occurred to me.” a sociologist and a feminist, a nice person service, teaching, and personal attention.” Barbara Risman: “The heart of mentor- and an incisive critic, an intellectual and a Both of these outstanding, and clearly ing is interpersonal relationships – between flea market scavenger.” exhilarating, mentors were described by teachers and students and among col- The committee was likewise inspired by their nominators as: Inspirational teachers; leagues. The best mentors move their stu- Barbara Risman’s formal and informal Effective activists inspiring many through dents into colleagues and this is the theme support of students, colleagues, and lay example and access; Extraordinary aca- underlying every interaction I have women; her demonstration of considerable demic, professional, and emotional men- observed between Barbara and her current skill and savvy in academic appointments tors for students and colleagues. and former students. I know she spends a where she created institutional practices Choosing them for this highly competi- ...continued on page 15

14 ...continued from page 14 ing] “Though the meetings only lasted a them or recruit them or bombard them. She lot of mental energy keeping her students few days, Barbara provided more mentor- simply makes space for them. She includes in mind, always on the lookout for an ing to me in that time than did most of my them in the “we”s. She introduces them to opportunity for them.” advisors in graduate school. Little did I other “us”es. She creates community and Barbara Risman: “Her students serve on know that this was simply a foreshadowing makes that community the most interesting national committees, submit papers to of the mentoring she would provide in the place on campus (in town, in Georgia, in national and regional conferences, partici- next couple of years. Barbara was sociology).” pate in numerous ways to develop a profes- absolutely central to my landing a job at a Linda Grant: “Through her exceptional sional identity; Barbara’s active encour- research institution.” research on the feminist critique of sociol- agement underlies most of these efforts.” About institutional practices: ogy research and publication…Linda has About mentoring: traced the pathways of gender research, Linda Grant: “I cannot count the number publication, and training of new students of times that I have stepped into her office and faculty in a variety of disciplines. She feeling like a failure and like my ideas had has always involved her graduate students no worth, only to leave with a renewed and junior (and a few recalcitrant senior) sense of self and a fresh confidence in my In the opinion colleagues in her grant writing and abilities.” research, and made them active partici- Linda Grant: “I have never known a per- pants in data collection, analyses, and as son like Linda Grant. I would be such an co-authors. As a result, her research and idiot right now if I have not had the oppor- of the committee, mentoring has inspired and supported sev- tunity to learn from her.” eral generations of students and Linda Grant: “Linda was simply a model research…” feminist colleague. She constantly demon- Barbara Risman: “Barbara practices strated for me how to be a great mentor. what she preaches. In doing so, she has She read my papers, gave me thoughtful both Linda Grant been an inspiration to me. Barbara has comments, and strategized with me about worked tirelessly to promote sociology, my career and how to find the right kinds both within and outside the discipline, with of publication outlets for my scholarship.” local, regional, national, and international Linda Grant: “In terms of mentoring, and Barbara Risman communities. She never turns down an what is amazing about Prof. Grant on this opportunity to use sociology to make a dif- point is that she always pulls students into ference in our world. And along the way, the projects she is doing, and she always you can be sure she will prepare a cadre of gives us credit for it…On every project we students and junior faculty to lead sociolo- worked on together, she invited me to par- embody the depth gy in the future.” ticipate, she regularly expressed gratitude Barbara Risman: “In the past two years for my work, and she publicly lauded my [at UIC], she has taken the department contributions, however meager they were.” through an institutional change process Barbara Risman: “Attentive to the chal- that has healed the open wounds and ral- lenges that new junior tenure-track faculty and breadth of ways lied department members around a collec- may face, she has always made it a point to tive vision for the future. I believe that her ‘check in’ with me to see how my transi- devotion to mentoring has been at the core tion from graduate student to faculty mem- of this transformation…” ber was going, while highlighting opportu- in which feminist Barbara Risman: “In addition to encour- nities for professional growth.” aging feminist scholarship, Barbara has Barbara Risman: “It does not matter if consistently encouraged students to you are in the same institution or where become a part of the feminist transforma- you are in your career, she is always there tion of the academy. More specifically, she to listen and if needed, advise…when it mentoring is practiced. nominates or encourages self-nomination comes to mentoring, she is the ‘real deal’.” of students for elected positions in profes- Barbara Risman: “She has provided indi- sional associations.” vidual support when needed by answering Barbara Risman: “Barbara is one of a questions that I was too embarrassed to ask Linda Grant: “What she really did…was core of people who are at the heart of the anyone else, by giving me objective to create a border culture, where those of most exciting institutional change within advice, and by telling me the hard truth us who didn’t completely fit into our cho- SWS and in Sociology that I have experi- when I needed to hear it. But equally sen disciplines could come to collectively enced in my career: the Sister-to-Sister net- important, she has opened doors for me struggle with concerns that were larger work which bridges the divides of race/eth- and pushed me through them when neces- than these disciplines could contain.” nicity and class by creating opportunities sary.” Linda Grant: “She seeks feminists out, for honest and direct talk about race and Barbara Risman: [mentee voluntarily almost like she can smell them from across discrimination and for working on devel- matched with Prof. Risman at annual meet- campus. And then she doesn’t overwhelm oping strategies for ending it.” 15 2008 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Winners ach year the committee selects a Elizabeth started her education at also their struggles for insurance pay- student for this scholarship who Pensacola Junior College in Florida, comments for treatment. Elizabeth has exemplifiesEE Beth’s commitments in the pleted her BA in Cultural Anthropology at served as the campus-wide director for broadest possible way – her contributions the University of West Florida and her Purdue’s Take Back the Night Events to scholarship on gender, aging, and social Master’s at Purdue, where she is now and is an active participant in her local disadvantage, her dedication to her com- Sexual Assault Prevention Coalition, the munity college students and mentoring Clothesline Project, and the women’s more generally, and her whole hearted studies program. activism to correct social injustices of 2008 Beth B. Hess Memorial class, race and gender. Each year the schol- Scholarship Winner, Mairead Eastin arship committee is confronted with the Maloney difficult task of choosing among a group of Mairead began her education at highly talented individuals who began their Young Harris College in Georgia, education at a community college and have received a BA from Wofford College progressed to a Ph.D. program. This year in Spartanburg, SC, and completed her was no exception – we had 14 wonderful MA at the University of North applicants from all over the country with a Carolina, where she is currently work- variety of activist commitments and ing on a dissertation entitled “It puts research agendas, all of which would have you on an uneven playing field: expe- made Beth really proud. We ended up, riences of disclosure, accommodation unusually, selecting not just one awardee, and stigma management among work- but also two students for honorable men- ing women with disabilities.” Mairead tion. worked for four years at the Institute Honorable mention Jackie Gabriel for Community Inclusion in Boston, Jackie started her higher education at on the issues of gender, work and dis- Muscadine Community College in Iowa, ability, which became her research received a BA at the University of Iowa agenda. She has co-authored several and an MA at the University of Nebraska at papers on aging and the new economy, Pictured are Elizabeth Sternke, honorable mention Omaha with a thesis on “Organizing Latino and on mentoring students with dis- Immigrant workers in the South Omaha (standing), and Mairead Eastin Maloney, 2007 abilities. This award will help her to Meatpacking Industry.” She is currently scholarship recipient (seated). Jackie Gabriel, complete her dissertation this year, writing her dissertation at Colorado State honorable mention, is not pictured. especially the qualitative portion of University on “International framework the study. Her commitment to research agreements as a strategy for global labor writing her dissertation on “Unruly bod- in aging and gender, which were organizing.” Jackie worked for two years ies: the narrative of the disabled female Beth’s passion, make her an ideal as a community organizer in the meat body and the incapacity to become preg- recipient for this award. Moreover, her packing industry and has published several nant.” Her research focuses on infertility desire to mentor students from non- papers on this topic. and social class, looking not only at the college backgrounds would have made Honorable mention Elizabeth Sternke self-labeling of women as infertile but Beth extremely proud.

Cheryl Allyn Miller Award Presented to Laura West Steck he winner of this year’s Cheryl notion of "work" of gendered organizations and Garey's Allyn Miller Award for award for in examining conceptualization of TTgraduate students and recent Ph.D.s how student- "weaving" work and motherhood to illumi- working in the area of women and work parents negoti- nate the ways in which gender organizes went to Laura West Steck. Laura ate the compet- expenditures of time, effort, energy, and received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the ing demands of physical labor as student-parents navigate University of Connecticut and is now parenting, family, schooling and employment respon- an Assistant Professor at York College. postsecondary sibilities. Laura is currently building on In her paper, titled "Parenting and schooling and this research to develop recommendations Postsecondary Schooling: Weaving the paid work. for expanding campus resources for stu- Gendered Work Practices of Everyday Laura employs dent-parents at York College. Life," Laura employs an expanded Acker's theory

16 THE 2008 BETH B. HESS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Hand Program The Membership Committee would like to The Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to a new or continuing graduate student who began thank all of the “senior” members who her or his study in a community college or technical school. A student accepted in an accredited PhD program volunteered to be mentors in the in sociology in the United States is eligible to apply if she or he studied for at least one full academic year at a Hand Program at the 2007 Summer Meeting. two-year college in the US before transferring to complete a BA. We had more senior members who volunteered than we had junior members needing mentoring, which The Scholarship carries a stipend of $3500 from Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) to be used to is the best kind of inequality we can support the pursuit of graduate studies, as well as a one-year student membership in SWS (including a think of! We also wanted to publicly subscription to Gender & Society), Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and the American acknowledge the 14 women who Sociological Association (ASA). The Scholarship will be awarded at the Annual Meetings of SWS, ASA, and served as mentors. SSSP in Boston, MA, August 1-4, 2008. The awardee’s economy class airfare, train fare or driving mileage/tolls will be paid by SSSP, SWS and ASA (applicants for this award should also apply for an ASA Denise Copelton student travel award; more than one such award may be given). Each association will also waive meeting registration, and provide complementary banquet or reception tickets for the awardee. Susan Ferguson To honor Beth Hess’s career, the committee will be looking for: x Commitment to teaching, especially at a community college or other institution serving less-privileged Lara Foley students. x Research and/or activism in social inequality, social justice, or social problems, with a focus on gender Carla Howery and/or gerontology being especially positive. x Service to the academic and/or local community, including mentoring. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld x High quality research and writing in the proposal and letter of application.

An application for the award should contain: Heather Laube 1. a letter of application (no more than 2 pages) that describes the student's decision to study sociology, career goals, research, activism and service that would help the committee to see how the Scholarship Lora Lempert would be a fitting honor 2. a letter confirming enrollment in or admission to a sociology Ph.D. program (and aid award if any) Marita McComiskey 3. a letter of recommendation from a sociologist (in a sealed envelope, signed on the seal) 4. full curriculum vitae, including all schools, degrees awarded, years of study, and full or part-time Stephanie Nawyn 5. (Optional) a one-page letter describing a community college faculty member who particularly contributed in a significant way to the decision to study sociology or pursue higher education 6. A cover sheet with: Barbara Risman x Name and full contact information, including phone and email x Current academic or organizational affiliation, with years Sarah Sobieraj x If not currently enrolled, future Ph.D. program and date of entry x Community college attended, with years and credits taken OR transcript Tracey Steele x Name and contact information for references x If included, name of honored faculty member Jan Thomas Six complete copies of the application should be submitted to: Prof. Myra Marx Ferree Ronni Tichenor

Department of Sociology Note: we will be sending out a call for University of Wisconsin-Madison participation in the Hand Program for the 1180 Observatory Drive Winter Meeting soon. Junior folks, or those of Madison, WI 53706 you who will be attending your first Winter Meeting, don’t hesitate to request a mentor. To be considered applications must be postmarked no later than March 31, 2008 Know that this organization and its members For further information contact Myra Marx Ferree -- [email protected] all take mentoring seriously and that we’ll do what we can to ensure your Winter Meeting experience is warm and welcoming.

17 SWS Summer Business Meeting Minutes and Executive Board Meeting Minutes

Executive Council Meeting Romanienko requested funding for litiga- response, member signatures on petitions, etc. Summer 2007 Meeting tion, asking to apply to SOROS under the Cindy Anderson will take this to the Social Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007 auspices of SWS. The EC decided that while Action committee for consideration. Minutes respectfully submitted by Tina we can offer support and offer some funds for Fetner, Secretary, with additional note-taking her litigation case, it is not appropriate for b. Website Press Room from Tracey Steele. SWS to become the institutional home for her Joey Sprague is concerned with getting case. The Discrimination Committee will feminist scholarship out to the mainstream Present: Manisha Desai, Minjeong Kim, Joey address this in its usual capacity. Manisha will press. Joey proposes establishing a Task Sprague, Cindy Andersen, Tina Fetner, email Shirley Jackson, Discrimination Chair, Force on Mainstreaming Feminist Sociology Tracey Steele, Chris Bose, Kathleen Slobin, to inform her of the EC’s decision. to explore various ways to do this. This Jessica Holden Sherwood Chris Bose raised a question about the should include someone from Publications Discrimination Committee budget and how committee to act as liaison. Meeting called to order at 3:13pm. the committee chair should recruit its mem- Joey Sprague will write up a one-page mis- bership. Jessica will look it up and email the sion statement for the Task Force, and set a 1. Existing business EC. date to review the Task Force. a. International research center collabora- tions e. Feminist Transformation of the Academy c. Consider calling for SWS historians We had voted previously to reach out to Task Force Proposal to become CIA commit- Kathleen Slobin recommends that we cre- researchers on gender issues by establishing tee ate a Task Force on the Recovering SWS links with 10 research centers by giving mem- The EC reviewed the proposal to create a History, to create a more elaborate history of berships to SWS, including Gender & Society Creating Inclusive Academies committee. the SWS. The Task Force would take one subscription, and in return, international Questions were raised about the overlap year to identify projects that would be appro- scholars would publish news in the Network between the Career Development Committee, priate. News. Some delays happened over the past Social Action Committee, and the Publication Chris Bose noted that one of the things that few years, and we want to get it back on track. committee. would be important would be to upload all of Trina Smith will make announcements at the It was suggested that rather than create a the historical documents of SWS onto a mem- Business Meeting, and we will formalize the new standing committee, the focus of the ber-only part of the website. process there. SWS Members will nominate Career Development Committee can be re- international scholars for this intellectual imagined to include transforming the acade- d. Moms Rising exchange. my be a part of its mission. Jessica Holden Sherwood recommended The EC decided to make this recommenda- that we sign on as an Aligned Organization. b. Motion to sign on to the American tion to the membership and discuss it in that The EC agreed. Association of University Professors 1940 setting. Statement on Academic Freedom and Tenure e. Explore carbon pass for conferences We had some discussion over whether this 2. Potential new projects The EC discussed the idea that we offset should be voted upon to the membership, or a. Action Alliances our carbon use by purchasing carbon passes. whether the EC should invite input from the Joey Sprague wants to establish key The Council decided not to take this action at membership and take responsibility for the alliances to help SWS do activism, to facili- this time. decision. tate rapid response without overwhelming the ***Tina Fetner exits meeting at this point. The EC decided to post the document on organization or its members. Joey recom- Tracey Steele records minutes from this point the SWS website, invite comments from the mends starting with a few groups and review- forward*** members until Nov 1, and the EC will make a ing in a year. decision after November 1. 3. EO-related business Feminist Majority Foundation a. Bylaws change in EOB composition c. Maloney and Ginsberg Parry High Court NGLTF Council agreed to bylaws change in EOB Ruling National Network of Immigrant Rights composition Chris Bose was asked to give an opinion on Women of Color Resource Center Suggestion brought forward to change the this ruling. The EC declined to submit an composition of EOB: opinion to the court on this matter. The members of the Social Action -remove publications committee Committee should join the action listservs, -add president elect d. Discrimination Committee request re: filter the action listservs and target a few Procedure is to bring it to membership at Romanienko case actions to send to the SWS listserv for rapid meeting this time and winter (requires 2 suc- 18 cessive votes to change) effect. Feminist Transformation of the Academy to a The decision was made to look into what standing committee. They reported that this b. SWS/ASA Minority Scholar Schlesinger would charge to do the cataloging task force met with the Career Development `Jessica indicated that she spoke with J. Shin before we made any decision. JS will find out Committee (as previously recommended by regarding our memorandum of understanding and report back. the Executive Council), where many issues regarding the SWS contribution to the ASA were raised and discussed. The two groups minority scholar program. She confirmed to e. Renting our mailing list: does it need a pol- agreed that it should not be made a subcom- him that council gave it the green light. Will icy or procedure? mittee of the Career Development indicate that this has been done at meeting. There is not a lot of demand for this. The Committee. All EOB members are invited to MFP ben- procedure used in past is that EO approves This task force continues to recommend efit reception—SWS contribution will be rec- straight-forward cases and emails council if forming a new standing committee. ognized at the reception. Will be held Sunday unsure. The mission statement was read to the at 9:30 pm in the Riverside Ballroom at the Council agreed this policy was fine. members. Sheraton The new title of the committee might be f. ASA staffer on listserv or comp member- Transforming the Academy or Creating c. Investment options and spending plan ship Institutional Change in the Academy. Organization has a lot of money that could Current policy is to receive email must be Manisha reports that the EC initially felt be invested more wisely (e.g. about $700,000 an SWS member, but we would like to have that another standing committee might be too is currently in a money market), also need to this person on list. To work out the exception burdensome, and there might be overlaps diversify. this staffer will be listed as having been given with the Career Development Committee. EOB & Budget Committee met to discuss a complimentary membership so that they can Further, transforming the academy is to some this and other matters regarding finances (e.g., get on listserv. degree embedded in the mission of all stand- spending plan) and reported to EC. We will adopt as policy for the future simi- ing committees, as one of the major goals of EC recommended that at the site visit in the lar to the one for the mailing list discussed the organization overall. fall a summary of current expenditures be above (i.e. EO approves except in question- With this feedback, the committee has fur- produced (Kathleen Slobin or “KS” will take able cases). ther refined the mission statement, met with lead on this). This will be presented at the the Career Development Committee, and winter meeting to council (and at business g. Recommendation for an HR liaison made clearer the role of the proposed standing meeting to the membership) to show where Complete discussion is recorded in internal committee. our money is currently being spent. This files. Summary: HR issues for the EO staff Several members expressed their support should serve as starting point for creation of a were discussed. It was agreed that the HR for the mission of the proposed standing com- spending plan. Other issues that will be con- liaison would be the SWS President or mittee. There was some discussion over sidered are determining investment priorities, Treasurer, since the latter is chair of the EOB whether this work was best done by a task use of an investment manager, and oversight committee. force or committee. of investments. Abby Ferber proposed that we vote in prin- JS agreed to see if she can find out what h. Ohio Secretary of State Issue ciple on this committee. other large organizations (e.g. ASA) are doing SWS is incorporated in RI. Ohio Secretary Tina Fetner seconds. with their $/investments of State contacted us and indicated there were The motion passed with one abstention. KS handed out a copy of the current budg- gaps in our SWS incorporation in Ohio. This motion requires a second vote in the et, noted that we spend less than we get in rev- Will cost total of $75 to fix ($50, 25 to rein- Winter 2008 business meeting, by which time enues, reiterated need for spending plan state and then remove us). Approved. the details of the proposal and the exact ***Joey Sprague exits the meeting at this change to the bylaws must be made explicit. point.*** Meeting adjourned. 3. Reports d. Relocating our archives from Schlesinger Summer 2007 Business Meeting A. Treasurer to Penn State August 13, 2007 3pm Kathleen Slobin presented the Treasurer’s Our archives are being stored at Minutes respectfully submitted by Tina Report (available in a separate document). As Schlesinger. They have indicated it will cost Fetner, Secretary reported there, this organization is in a strong considerable money per foot to catalogue. Presider: Manisha Desai, President financial position. They have recently changed their policies, which caused some issue with one family 1. Welcome and Report from President who donated papers to the collection. Banquet tickets are still available for $36. ASA Executive Officer informed us that Please come. Penn State probably would archive our records for free, as they do for ASA. The 2. Pending business switch would probably involve moving costs, A. Feminist Transformation of the though we have the money. Academy task force proposal to become a KS indicated that in past SWS wrote a let- standing committee ter of censure involving a case at Penn Abby Ferber and Danielle Currier present- State—question of how long that should be in ed the proposal to make the Task Force on 19 B. Executive Officer mention recipients would receive a current Please submit and note in your cover letter Jessica Holden Sherwood reports that and next-year SWS membership, banquet that it should be considered for the special Candace Hindle will leave next month, to ticket, meeting registration, and a plaque. issue. Deadline is October 1, 2007. continue working through the end of the year Further, we should add a current and next- A second special issue will be on sexuality in a limited capacity. year membership to the Beth Hess Award and bodies, to be discussed at the Winter 2008 Kristen Baxter will replace Candace in the winner. meetings. EO. The motion carries unanimously. G&S has seen a 50% increase in Impact The SWS website will have an online data- Factor. It is ranked 22 among 94 sociology base, including elections. Career Development journals. 6 out of 26 in Women’s Studies jour- One of the features of the new website is a Tamara Smith reports that the committee nals. The most cited article had a maximum of bulletin board. Jessica will initiate this board had two workshops. four citations, meaning that every cite counts. with a discussion about whether SWS should The junior members of SWS are very eager See G&S report for full statistics. sign on to the AAUP Statement on Academic to receive career development advice, but the Freedom and Tenure. senior members do not always fill those needs International The banquet tonight is at the Jewel of India, through the current system of soliciting vol- Susan Lee spoke for Trina Smith, chair. The on 44th St between 5th and 6th. Arrive unteers. committee asks for nominations for research between 6 & 7pm. The committee requests that SWS establish centers to establish partnerships with SWS. a senior member as a liaison to the Career This will involve an SWS membership and C. Committees Development Committee. subscription to Gender & Society, and in Awards Erin Anderson has had 6 professional needs return, they would send us a report on their Tracy Ore reports that we will give 7 mentorship and has made 4 matches. research. awards tonight at the banquet, including our 2 Some discussion of the role of the Hey Nominations by SWS members should be new scholarships: the SWS/ASA MFP schol- Jane! columnist ensued. Currently, this is a sent to the International Committees, which arship and the Women of Color Scholarship. two-year position, and the Career will have a subcommittee to select research Feminist Lecture Award Development committee recommend that this centers. Thanks to Susan Farrell for chairing this change to a one-year position. Some mem- Susan Lee moves that any of SWS’s seven award. Mary Zimmerman will take over next bers made it clear that this was not a matter of UN representatives be authorized to sign onto year. Deadline will be changed to Dec 15. by-law prescription, but a practice, and there any petitions if they are consistent with the Tracy proposes that we give all Feminist is room for the committee to change the prac- SWS mission. Lecturers of the past a plaque. We could not tice without a by-law change. Manisha reports that this has been dis- afford them in the past, and now that we can, Tamara Smith passed around sign-up sheets cussed in the past, and the decision has been we should make it up to them. This would for senior people to volunteer. that the UN representatives should consult the amount to 15 plaques. There is general agree- President, who is the only one authorized to ment for this proposal; no vote is taken. Discrimination sign on behalf of the organization. Cheryl Allen Miller Award no report One member recommends that the issue of Cindy Anderson has stepped down as the expanding the International Committee’s role chair for this award. Ivy Kennelly may take Gender & Society be discussed at the Winter 2008 meetings. over this. Dana Britton introduced the editorial staff: The motion was withdrawn. Mentoring Award managing editors Laura Logan and Cindy Tracy Ore reports that we have discussed Whitney; Andrea Button, a student who has Membership that mentor award get $1000. If there are mul- been working hourly on several projects Cindy Anderson reports that we have about tiple winners, this amount is to be split among through the summer, and deputy editors 1000 members. The committee’s budget is winners. Bandana Purkayastha and Sharon Bird. $1300, which mostly goes to regional groups Judith Lorber moves that the mentor award G&S has come up online, and submissions for recruitment events. get $500, in addition to travel money. have increased. We will receive over 300 Discussion ensued. The point was made manuscripts this year. Between January 1 and Network News that the award should be valued similarly to July 31 2007, we received 65 more manu- no report the Feminist Lecturer Award. Others made scripts than during the same period in 2006. the point that the Feminist Lecture Award The acceptance rate is 8%. Nominations includes compensation for work requested for The journal now has a fully online review Chris Bose handed out a call for nomina- the year the award is granted. system. tions to the members. Longer descriptions are The motion carries unanimously. We have a guest-edited symposium coming available on the SWS website. The official The awards committee will pursue getting up. The symposium is framed around deadline to submit is September 30, but SWS awards into Footnotes and the awards Margaret Andersen’s essay on the past 20 please try to nominate/self-nominate earlier. booklet. years of feminism. One junior and one senior Finally, the Awards Committee proposes scholar has each written on race, class, and Scholarship & Human Rights that our major scholarships recognize honor- sexuality respectively. Margeret Andersen Chris Bose reports that letters were drafted able mentions in addition to the award win- will have a response, and guest editor Jessie regarding Imus’s racist and sexist comments. ners. This would be for the Beth Hess and the Daniels will comment. Women of Color Scholarships. Honorable Special issue: Gendered Borderlands. 20 Several other letters were written and petitions Student Concerns wanted to help make the world a better place and signed. The student concerns committee hosted their we in SWS are committed to that cause. usual activities. Community Organizers have a lot to teach us Publications Student happy hour had 28 attendees, and a about ways to be more effective in supporting Toni Calasanti requests that members update raffle. feminist social change both as an organization of their information on the online system. Student roundtables were successful. feminist sociologists and in our local work and http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc Student concerns committee has 16 active par- community lives. The Midwest Academy is the New book review editor is to begin a 3-year ticipants, which is much larger than in the past. premier trainer of community organizers in the appointment. The committee has been formaliz- The committee is concerned about the history U.S. and its director, Jackie Kendall, will teach us ing the job descriptions of the various roles of the SCC, which the committee is working to the basics of community organizing and how to involved with publications. develop. think strategically as an organization. Building Leslie Hossfield’s position will end January The committee will call for proposals from on this introduction will be a session geared to 2009. regional chapters to do work for students in their help us make our research and teaching more Online access to SAGE journals has not been regional meetings in the next Network News. empowering for the communities we want to available in the past, but will be in November. serve. 4- New Business We will also have regular paper sessions, the Sister to Sister A. changing composition of EOB (Exec. Office usual fun organizational work, an incredible ban- Patricia Warren reports that this committee & Budget) cmte in Bylaws quet and, of course, some free time to enjoy Las hosted a workshop this morning, called “Straight Manisha moves that we adopt the bylaw Vegas. Up No Chasers.” It was a very successful panel. change as written in the “Proposed Bylaws The Alexis Park Resort is an oasis of calm and Barbara Risman continues to match mentors and Change” attachment. beauty across the street from the Hard Rock Café junior people in the Sister to Sister mentoring Myra Marx Ferree seconds. and just a ½ hour walk or a short shuttle ride from program. The motion carries unanimously. the big casinos on “The Strip.” All of the rooms are recently remodeled suites and we have an Social Action B. Call for Task Force on Mainstreaming incredible rate for this location—$109 for one Marybeth Stalp reports that the committee did Feminist Sociology person and $20 for each additional person up to not meet. They co-sponsored panel on activism Joey Sprague announced her intention to a maximum of 4 in a room. Make sure to men- with SSSP. They are beginning some work on spearhead a new Task Force. She will put an tion SWS to secure this rate, which extends for 3 maintaining the lactation room with the ASA. If announcement on the listserv, so please consider days before and after our meeting. you have stories or concerns, please contact the whether you would like to participate in this. The deadline for reservations is January 8, committee. 2008. However, we may have a larger atten- The fact sheet process is in place. The commit- 5- Winter 2008 meeting preview dance than usual so we strongly advise you to tee is deciding on topics. Joey Sprague announced that the Winter meet- reserve your room by early December to One member requested that we coordinate ing is February 7-10 in Las Vegas Nevada. make sure you get a room in our block. with SSSP and ABS for future summer meetings Please come! The meeting was adjourned at 5:l0pm. to create more options for hotels and to keep The text of the announcement is as follows: costs as low as possible. Most of us entered sociology because we

Successful Requests for a Reference Letter By: Judith Lorber I felt badly about having to turn down three This way, the request for a reference letter does Professor Emerita, Brooklyn worthy people, and I thought about what would not come “out of the blue,” and the referee has College and Graduate Center, have made it possible for me to serve as a ref- had a chance to look at your materials over a erence for them. I’d like to suggest the follow- longer period of time. It is then much easier to his past summer, I received three ing to faculty coming up for promotion who send a detailed supportive letter when request- requests to serve as a promotion would like a supportive letter from someone ed. At least for me, it also ensures that I am referee.TT I had to turn them all down because I who does not know them very well, if at all. much more likely to agree to serve as a referee. was too busy the whole summer and fall to During the academic year before you are com- The same procedure is also very useful if undertake a review of sociological work with ing up for promotion review, email your cur- you are looking for a position, or plan to do job which I was unfamiliar. I was asked because I rent CV to those you plan to list as your refer- search to make a change. It also works if you am an “expert” in their general fields, but in ees or include in a submitted list of possible ref- are going to suggest someone to a publisher as order to write a truly supportive reference let- erees. Request permission to list and suggest a good reviewer for a book proposal. The only ter, I feel that it is important to be able to that if permission is granted, you will send a time you should not alert someone with a “pre- demonstrate a familiarity with the particulars of selection of recent publications soon after. quel” is if you hope the person will be sent a the work of the scholar as a whole and espe- Indicate who will be requesting the letter and journal submission for blind peer-review. cially the most recent. when it is likely to be needed. 21 Summer Meeting 2007 Committee Reports and Meeting Minutes I. Executive Office By Jessica Sherwood $100,000.00 and substantial monies for the editorial office support) continue to EXECUTIVE OFFICE REPORT, increase our assets and have permitted us SUMMER 2007 during the last year to undertake two major new funding projects: The Women of 1. AT THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE Color Scholarship and the SWS/ASA Candace Hindle will be leaving the Minorities Fellowship Program. As of the executive office in September. Through beginning of August, SWS had a total of the end of 2007, though, she will main- $1,055,240.25 in assets that included tain our database of members and con- $258,744.72 in investment income and tinue to issue circulation reports for the $796,495.53 in bank accounts. newsletter and journal. Meanwhile, Kristen starting a topic on the bulletin board also The budgeted revenue for 2007 is Baxter will replace her. Kristen is here at her announce it on the Listserv, since we are not $417,858.71. For this year the budgeted revenue third SWS meeting, and we’re glad to have (yet?) in the habit of checking the board. exceeds the budgeted expenses of $314,074 by someone come in with a “head start” on the job. $103,784.71. Similarly, the actual revenue for Kristen will take over the [email protected] 4. MISCELLANEOUS: COSSA MEETING eight months into 2007 of $336,743.50 exceeds email, and we will find a work-study student to SWS is a member of the Consortium of Social our expenses of $182,981.25 by $153,762.25. I field the [email protected]. Our 2006 Science Associations. We seek a volunteer to have projected $403,201.66 in revenue for 2008 Review by a CPA is now complete. We are attend COSSA’s annual meeting on behalf of and $236,439.22 in expenses. While it is expect- keeping up with bookkeeping, and are looking SWS. It is Monday 12/03/07 in Washington DC. ed that we may have additional expenses in forward to a simpler 2007 Review. SWS will pay your registration, but you must 2008, our present projected budget will increase fund your own travel (if any). Please see our assets by at least $122,163. These figures 2. MEMBER SERVICES www.cossa.org for more information, and email show the strength of our organization’s financial One of the final steps of our overhauled web- the EO if interested. position. site is integrating a new online database. This is Because of our increase assets over the in development this Fall, and we will call for 5. PROGRAM OMISSION/ADDITION - last several years, SWS is now in the online renewals for 2008. Kristen will learn this Many thanks to Gail Wallace for compiling the process of constructing both a spending new process, with support from the local woman list of 2007 books by SWS members. policy and an investment policy. At our developing the new database. We will offer Executive Office Site visit this coming online meeting registration again for Winter, and II. Treasurer’s Report October, the EOB Committee will draft an appreciate your patience as we work out those By Kathleen Slobin outline of principles for consideration of kinks. Elections will be conducted online again, these policies by our members. Regarding this Fall. The SWS accounts and budget for 2007 con- our investments, we will look at 1) proper The 2007 Members’ Directory will be produced tinue to be in a very good position. Our Fidelity diversification of funds (asset classes); 2) in the Fall, once we’ve added the memberships accounts are continuing to do well, even as the whether to engage an investment manager gained here in New York. It will be available by present market volatility has deflected their or advisor; 3) which funds we do or do not email upon request. growth to some extent. Taken together our want to own as they relate to our definition investments in the Feminist Futures Fund, the of socially responsible; and 4) expense 3. NEW FORM FOR COMMUNICATION & Barbara Rosenblum Fund, and the Natalle Allon ratios of various family funds. At this time AAUP STATEMENT Fund show moderate growth of 2%, posting we would like any member who has had Our website has the capacity for a bulletin $253,959.72 at the close of 2006 and experience in oversight or management of board, which has not yet been used. $258,744.72 as of August of 2007. Our substan- funds in other non-profit organizations to http://socwomen.org/phpbb/index.php. The first tial growth in assets is reflected in our primary give their names to the SWS President time you visit, click “Register” on the upper right Citizens Bank interest earning money market Manisha Desai to help form a spending – “Log In” won’t work, yet. The first use for this account that now totals $749,025.99. Gender & and/or investment task force in the near future. bulletin board is as follows: to consider SWS’ Society royalties from our Sage contract (the Finally, I want to thank Jessica Sherwood and signing on to the AAUP Statement on Academic 2005 Sage contract for Gender & Society pro- her assistant Candace Hindle for their careful Freedom and Tenure. Please visit our bulletin vided SWS an annual non-returnable advance stewardship of our assets, revenues, and expens- board for the link to the Statement, and then post against royalties of $200,000.00 beginning in es. Please contact me at kathleen.slobin@ndsu. your opinion to the board by 11/01/07. I will post 2005 and ending in December, 2011. These edu, if you have questions about our budget- this to the Listserv. I recommend that anyone monies are in addition to a signing bonus of ing process.

22 III. Student Concerns Committee Report students including a few non-members SCC members decided to retain the listserv By Minjeong Kim attended and enjoyed their time being as a space where students can discuss their acquainted with other student members. own issues and to find ways to make it 1. The Student Concerns Committee Unfortunately, no ABS students who par- more active. Laura Bunyan will replace (SCC) Events at the 2007 Summer ticipated in the ABS-SWS Student Laurie as a new listserv manager. Meeting Roundtables were able to attend, but I hope I thank Laurie Chancey for her dedicated that an effort to bridge SWS student mem- service as a listserv manager and Laura [A] 3rd Annual ABS-SWS Student bers with students of other organizations Bunyan for volunteering to be a listserv Roundtables: Emerging Scholarship in will continue. Meanwhile, a raffle made it manager. Sociology a more exciting time. Five prizes were We had another successful ABS-SWS given – 2 banquet tickets, 1 membership, 1 2. Other Issues Student Roundtables. In the Roundtables registration for 2008 summer meeting, and In addition to the listserv, SCC members which was held at the Whitney Room of 1 winter meeting discount ($50). I thank are still looking for ways to utilize the SCC the InterContinental Barclay Hotel on Betsy Lucal for donating 2 banquet tickets, webpage as a way to share information and August 11, 2007, 20 students presented Marianne Noh for her idea of a raffle, and form networks among students. their papers discussing various interesting Laurel Westbrook for being a great host at Also, the SCC has closed the Student-to- topics including racial identities, immigra- the Happy Hour. Student Mentoring Program which has tion and gender, gendered and sexualized been inactive since last year and is looking bodies, social movements, families, social [D] SCC Meeting into a way to provide a student-to-student networks, and gendered citizenship. In The SCC Meeting had 10 students in support program. addition to the presenters, I thank Sarah attendance including the Chair, SCC mem- Swider and Jodi Ross, SCC members, and bers and other SWS student members. The 3. Closing Remarks Zandria F. Robinson, the ABS Student meeting started with the introduction of The SCC events at the summer meeting Representative for organizing the roundta- those who were present and SWS commit- could not have happened without Jessica bles, and seven advanced graduate students tees by student liaisons, followed by dis- Holden Sherwood whose assistance made and faculty members who served as discus- cussing the proposed issues. SCC events possible. I also thank all SCC sants. As planned, all ABS participants (1) Updating the SCC history: Marcia members for their thoughts, opinions, and received a free ticket to our Happy Hours, Hernandez, past Student Representative, efforts to make our committee active. In and again I thank Marcia Hernandez, the wrote a brief history of the SCC, which is addition, I thank Rachel Kulick for design- Membership Committee (Chair, Cindy available on the website. Stephanie Jo ing a nice SCC flier and Carolyn Corrado Anderson) and the Sister-To-Sister Nawyn, who is current SCC faculty mem- and Astrid Eich-Krohm for taking minutes Committee (Chair, Patricia Warren) for ber and was the first Student at the SCC meeting. their ideas and support for this recruitment Representative, provided additional Student Concerns Committee Support effort. account on the inception of the SCC, for Students of Regional Chapters> which will be incorporated to update the Regional chapters that would like to initi- [B] SCC-Sponsored Dissertation Workshop history of the SCC. ate program or activity to serve their stu- The SCC organized another session on (2) In order to form a network between dent membership can submit a request to dissertation process entitled “Dissertation the SCC and regional chapters and utilize the SCC by November 10, 2007. Proposal Research Abroad & International SCC budget in a more constructive way, should explain their plans that could bene- Fieldwork.” Four presenters discussed var- the SCC decided to provide support for fit students at 2008 regional meetings. ious aspects of dissertation research regional chapters in their efforts to provide Regional chapters will receive up to $200 abroad: Astrid Eich-Krohm on recruiting events that would benefit students. Five of the SCC support and they will be participants using social networks and the regional chapters (initially four chapters – required to submit a report to the SCC after Internet; Minjeong Kim on considerations Eastern, Midwest, Pacific, and Southern – regional meetings by May 10, 2008.These of local culture and customs in IRB were included and the North Central was reports will be reviewed before the SWS process; Myra Marx Ferree on dissertation added after the meeting) are eligible and summer meeting and based on the review, research abroad from a professor’s point of upon request, the SCC will provide $200 to the SCC will decide if it will continue this view; and, Sarah Swider on issues in a each regional chapter (Please see below). program and/or if and how the program “less than democratic” environment. The With this support, I hope that more stu- should be modified. presentation was followed by questions dents participate in regional chapters and and discussions on relevant issues. I thank the SCC and there will be an active net- IV. Awards Committee Report all presenters and attendees who made the work between the SCC and regional chap- By Tracy E. Ore workshop informative and useful. ters at a student level. The Awards Committee met in New York (3) Laurie Chancey who served as a on Saturday, August 11. Those in atten- [C] Student Happy Hours manager of the Grad listserv for the past dance were Cynthia Anderson, Susan Student Happy Hour was again very suc- year and half has asked to be replaced. Farrell, and Myra Marx Ferree. Below are cessful. Like last year, each student mem- Some members expressed the concern over the items discussed: ber received two drink coupons at the reg- inactivity of the listserv and even suggest- istration desk, one for themselves and the ed that the listserv be closed. However, in Feminist Lecturer Award: Susan Farrell other for non-member guests. About thirty the further discussion after the meeting, will be stepping down as chair of this com- 23 ittee and we are in need of replacing her. Susan Critique Me” session, however, was very suc- would be a much better fit between the Social and Tracy will approach Mary Zimmerman to cessful and had many more attendees looking for Action Committee and the FTA/CIA. see if she is willing to take on the role of chair. In feedback than volunteer panelists to critique their Erin Anderson reported on the Professional- addition, we are in need of at least two, if not materials. This led to a more general discussion needs Mentoring Program. She had approxi- three, people to volunteer for this committee. If on the problem of committee composition (see mately 4-6 requests this year for mentors. She you are interested in serving, please contact #3). plans to advertise the program in an upcoming Tracy Ore at [email protected]. The dead- Ideas for sponsored sessions for the upcoming issue of Network news. line for submitting applications for campus visits winter meeting in Las Vegas were discussed. The Lara Foley reported on the Hey Jane! advice will be changed to November 15 to facilitate committee elected to sponsor a session on “What column, noting the difficulty of running the col- coordinating the lecturer’s schedule. Finally, it You Can Deduct as an Academic,” with advice umn monthly. We discussed the possibility of the was suggested that all past award recipients be from a lawyer with expertise in tax law, and a two elected committee members, each of whom given plaques to recognize their work. This session on “Feminism and Careers,” with pan- serves a two-year term, alternating the responsi- action was approved at the business meeting. elists from various stages of the career-course bilities of the Professional-needs Mentoring who will discuss the influence of feminism on Program and the Hey Jane! column, but con- Beth Hess Memorial Scholarship: The com- their career trajectories. cluded that this would not be feasible, and likely mittee chose to grant honorable mention in this Composition of the committee – the relatively more work for the individuals coordinating these category and requested that the person in this cat- low numbers of more senior members on the efforts. Instead, we decided to reduce the fre- egory receive a plaque, banquet ticket, and meet- committee was discussed at length. The high quency of the column from monthly to bimonth- ing registration. This action was approved at the ly to make the task of coordinating the column business meeting. more manageable. We brainstormed ideas for questions for upcoming columns and possible Cheryl Ann Miller Award: Cindy Anderson persons to tap for expert help in answering those will be stepping down as chair of this committee. career questions. The committee appreciates her service. Ivy Kennelly is likely to replace Cindy as chair. VI. International Committee Report By Trina Smith Mentoring Award: At the Winter meetings the Awards committee requested that a monetary Attending: award of $500.00 be added to the mentoring Astrid Eich-Krohm, Judith Gordon, Susan Lee, award in order to have consistency among Marita McComiskey, Nancy Mezey, Eileen awards. The minutes of the meeting don’t indi- Moran, Keumjae Park, Diana Papademas, Helen cate that the membership voted and approved Raisz, Jackie Skiles,Sarah Swider. this amount so we are raising this issue again. 1)After welcoming members to the meeting, This amount was agreed to at the subsequent the chair Trina Smith informed the committee business meeting. Members present agreed that that nominations are needed for a new in the case of two or more awardees that the International Committee chair for 2008-2010. recipients would split the monetary award. Nominations are requested by September 2007. 2) UN representation: SWS is credentialed as General issue: The Awards Committee will proportion of junior faculty and graduate stu- an NGO to the United Nation’s Economic and contact ASA to make certain that its awards are dents makes it difficult for the committee to Social Council (ECOSOC) and the Department announced in footnotes and, if possible, the ASA organize career sessions aimed at these groups. of Public Information (DPI). To maintain our awards booklet. We brainstormed a number of strategies to credentials, authorizing letters have to be attempt to increase senior membership on the processed through SWS’s central office. V. Career Development Committee Report committee including directly inviting individuals Committee members raised concerns that this Submitted by Denise A. Copelton and Laura to serve on the committee, asking the SWS exec- paperwork be handled expeditiously in order to West Steck on behalf of Tamara Smith, CDC utive committee to appoint a senior member, and maintain our status with the UN. The UN Chair requesting that a new elected position on the bureaucracy takes some time to process paper- committee be created that would be reserved for work once they receive it, so our own SWS The Career Development Committee met on a senior faculty. papers have to be sent in promptly. August 12, 2007 in New York City. Members in Committee members discussed the proposal Other UN work was discussed, including the attendance included: Tamara Smith, chair; Erin from the Executive Committee to designate the possibility of SWS signing on to petitions and Anderson; Wendy Christianson; Denise Feminist Transformation of the documents circulated during the Commission on Copelton; Carolyn Corrado; Lara Foley; Academy/Creating Inclusive Academies the Status of Women (CSW) meetings in March. Minjeong Kim; Kate Linnenberg; and Laura (FTA/CIA) taskforce as a subcommittee of the Participating as a signatory would raise SWS’s West Steck. CDC. All in attendance agreed that this may not visibility at the CSW and enable us to advocate The following agenda items were discussed: be the best fit (i.e. the CDC focus on profession- for SWS social issues. Committee members dis- The CDC sponsored two sessions at the sum- al development at various stages of members’ cussed ways to authorize such signatures and mer meeting including one on the “Feminist careers, whereas the FTA/CIA has a much agreed to inquire at the Business Meeting for Teaching Portfolio,” which had relatively low broader, structural focus on transforming the some autonomy for the five CSW representa- attendance. “The Employment Package- academy). There was also consensus that there tives. The committee then 24 discussed the value of UN publications and At the 2007 winter business meeting in I heard from most chapters about their events as teaching resources and raised the New Orleans, Chris Bose and I were activities and requests. Five chapter possibility of facilitating student participa- charged with working with Jean Shin, the reports are still not in, and may yet arrive. tion at the UN. ASA Minority Affairs Director, to craft a I will try to follow up with whomever I Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) can. 3) Collaboration with international between SWS and ASA to address member Got no response from Akron, Kent State, women’s research centers: The concerns on continued SWS funding of a and SWS-South. I may have incorrect con- International Committee has permission to minority fellow. Member concerns includ- tact information (perhaps Cathy Zimmer send Gender and Society subscriptions to ed the use of the term “fellow,” selection of knows about south) five international women’s research cen- the awardee, and funding issues. To I flubbed e-mails to SWS-East and North ters. The hope is to begin an official rela- address these concerns, Jean agreed to Central. I may be hearing from them soon. tionship with these centers including publi- revise the draft MOU written by Heather If we end up with three more regional cation of articles about their work in Laube, former MFP Liaison. We held a requests and two local requests, it could be Network News. The committee discussed conference call in early July to discuss the a much higher budget. criteria and processes for selecting the cen- MOU draft, and with significant input Total chapter funds requested: $750- ters. Trina Smith was delegated to draft a from the SWS Executive Officer, Jessica $1000. document on selecting the centers to be Holden-Sherwood, finalized the MOU. It If any chapter representatives show up, I presented to the Business Meeting. The was then approved by both ASA and SWS would like a few pieces of information committee suggested that centers with Council. SWS agreed to contribute from them! financial need be given preference as they $15,000 annually to fund one award Are their contacts on the web the correct would probably not be able to subscribe to through 2011, which is also when the cur- contacts? Please send updated information Gender and Society on their own. The cen- rent G&S contract with Sage expires. Any to me. ([email protected]) ters should have enough capacity, however, changes in stipend amounts during this Is there anything else about their chapter to maintain a link with SWS. The commit- time would be discussed at the winter that should be changed/updated on the tee expressed the hope that SWS members meetings. In addition to those benefits web. I will be submitting several changes who nominate a research center for this already established by ASA, SWS agreed at once after ASA. collaboration would commit to maintain to offer the awardee complimentary mem- Please let me know if you close your contact with the center on behalf of SWS. bership in SWS for each calendar year of chapter! The International Committee meeting affiliation (2 years total), complimentary Anyone interested in forming a chapter, was followed by a panel presentation given registration and banquet tickets at both the please let me know so I can link you up by SWS UN representatives concerning winter and summer meetings, and $500 in with others in your area their experiences at the United Nations and travel support to attend the winter meeting. possible future work there. SWS also agreed to offer formal and infor- VIII. Social Action Committee Report mal mentoring to the awardee throughout By Marybeth Stalp VII. Membership Committee Report the award period. Awardees will be chosen By Cindy Anderson from new or continuing MFP cohorts by Attendees: Gayle Sulik and Marybeth the ASA Minority Affairs Director in con- Stalp Early in the year, I completed the 2007 sultation with the SWS EO and the Survey of ASA Candidates and posted on Membership Liaison to MFP. The Agenda Items our website for members to review. awardee’s scholarly work should be in Almost all candidates responded to the sur- keeping with the SWS mission of improv- *SSSP/SWS Activist/Academic Panel vey; the response rate was 89%. We did ing the lives of women. Finally, to address Discussion not hold a SWS new member event this member concerns regarding the use of the Rachel Kutz-Flanembaum and Marybeth year because past years events have been term “fellow,” we elected to refer to the Stalp organized this session which was co- poorly attended. We continue to acknowl- award/awardee as the SWS MFP Scholar sponsored by SSSP and SWS. The panel edge new members with light purple rib- within SWS. discussion went very well, and resulted in bons. Current members get dark purple The 2007 SWS MFP Scholar is Zandria good discussion during and after the ses- ribbons. MFPs are recognized by silver Robinson. I contacted Zandria to congratu- sion. ribbons. late her on the award, to invite her to the We currently have approximately 875 summer awards banquet where she will be *Fact Sheets for 2008 members; the Executive Office estimates introduced and presented with a plaque, With an extended July 15th deadline, we getting another 200 by the end of the year. and to inform her of the many perks SWS received 16 proposals. We received two This should be slightly more than the 1020 will provide her. She was thrilled and plans submissions each for two categories, 0 members we had at the end of 2006. to attend the banquet. I will also submit a submissions for two additional categories, short write-up on Zandria to Network and 12 submissions for the new open cate- MFP Liaison Report, July 30, 2007 news. gory. The committee is reviewing submis- Submitted by Denise A. Copelton, sions and hopes to make final decisions for Membership Committee Liaison to Local & Regional Chapters Report, 2008 fact sheets no later than September. MFP August 6, 2007 We are working to update the SWS website Submitted by Ana Prokos and to have all fact sheets available on the 25 SWS website. descriptions and agreements that can be Network News Editor’s Report passed along in the future. By Leslie Hossfeld Lactation at ASA/SWS meeting With the help of Jessica and SWS, SAC Gender & Society Two issues were produced since the was in communication with ASA about Dana Britton reported that Gender & Winter meetings in New Orleans: Volume providing appropriate breast feeding space Society is doing well, with both submis- XXIV, Numbers 1-2, averaging 34 pages at the meetings. SWS did promote the lac- sions and visibility continuing to grow. per issue; circulation is over 1100 per tation space at the ASA, and we look for- Now in her second year, Dana and her staff issue. Both issues are available on the ward to hearing feedback regarding these have developed an efficient and smooth- SWS web site www.socwomen.org as pdf services, in order to better provide quiet running editorial office. Dana will submit files. Production and distribution is run- spaces for members. a separate publication and budget report. ning smoothly. Payment for Job One aspect of the editor’s report that we Announcements has shifted to Executive New Business—Rapid Alliance Allies would like to highlight is in relation to Office; overall this transition has worked (RAA) impact factors. Although this measure may well. Networknews is easily operating SAC via email is considering establish- have some problems, Sage representatives within the new budget specifications. ing the Rapid Alliance Allies, which noted that a journal’s impact factor is key includes the intentional monitoring of like- to revenues, and thus Gender & Society’s is Gender and Society Editor’s Report minded activist organizations, to keep important to the health of SWS. Dana By Dana Britton SWS in the know on certain events. The reported a 50 percent jump in the Gender RAA is a way in which the SAC can estab- & Society impact factor (reflecting articles Editorial Staff lish a connection between activist organi- that appeared in 2004 and 2005 that were The journal’s Managing Editors are zations and ourselves in terms of keeping cited in 206)—a noteworthy increase for a Cindy Whitney, Laura Logan and Andrea SWS up to date with who is doing what, journal already doing well. SWS members Button. Cindy Whitney is a PhD student who has responded, etc. For example, can play an important role in this measure who works 20 hours/week. Laura Logan is using the Imus controversy as our most by remembering to cite articles from the a second-year master’s student who also recent event, the Feminist Majority journal when appropriate, no matter where works 20 hours/week. Andrea Button is Foundation (FMF) responded quickly to an article will appear. Every citation student summer hourly, working 20 hours the situation and posted a statement on makes a noticeable difference in the meas- a week as well. Deputy Editors Bandana their website—this is part of what their ure. In terms of upcoming special features Purkayastha and Sharon Bird assist in the organization is about—this type of action of the journal, Dana reported that the call editorial decision process by providing ini- is not necessarily what our organization for the special issue on “Gendered tial reviews of manuscripts, choosing does, but we can certainly support the FMF Borderlands” is on line at reviewers, and providing assessments of (and other similar organizations) in their http://gas.sage.pub. In addition, the guest reviewed manuscripts. Each handles efforts. Thus, should an event happen, edited symposium of invited papers approximately 25 percent of the total num- SWS can depend upon members of SAC to responding to Maggie Anderson’s 2004 ber of papers we receive, from Jan – July keep SWS abreast of what specific and like feminist lecture on intersectionality, edited 2007 Dana has handled 124 manuscripts minded activist organizations are up to, by Jessie Daniels, will appear in the Feb. and each deputy editor approximately 50. and how we can support them by promot- 2008 issue. The deputy editor system is working well, ing their statements on such events. We are We are pleased to welcome our new and certainly makes it easier to deal with considering appropriate organizations at Book Review Editor for Gender & Society, our ever increasing volume of manuscripts. this point, and an efficient way to monitor Martha McCaughey, from Appalachian these organizations. We plan to have an State University. Martha began her three- Cover Art update for SWS at the Winter meetings. year term (to end August 15, 2010) on May Julie Reid, a University of Texas gradu- 15, and has hit the ground running. She ate student in sociology, worked closely IX. Publications Committee has further professionalized her duties, and with Sage to design the most recent cover, By Toni Calasanti and Kerry Ann has instituted a system of tracking books which includes a picture of a statue by an Rockquemore and reviews that also makes clear where Inuit woman artist. We have decided on a Since New Orleans, Toni Calasanti and books fit in terms of the policy established new image for 2008. I am pleased to say Kerry Ann Rockquemore have worked by the Publications committee concerning that Julie will continue to design the cover together as Co-Chairs for the Publications how to prioritize books to be reviewed. for the journal Committee. The committee has selected a Thanks to the hard work of both Martha new Book Review Editor for Gender & and the previous Book Review Editor, Statistics Society, Martha McCaughey, and the tran- Barbara Ryan, the transition has gone From January 1, 2007 to July 31, 2007, sition to her editorship is complete. Gender smoothly, and Martha has developed an Gender & Society received 223 submis- & Society continues to thrive under Dana excellent stream of reviews for future sions; 188 new and 35 revised manu- Britton’s direction, and Network News is issues. Finally, in an effort to clarify the scripts. This is up from 158 manuscripts flourishing. Finally, we are working to job of the Book Review Editor and expe- (111 new and 47 revised) for the same time make various editorial jobs within the dite transitions in future years, the period in 2006 (Jan – July). We sent 294 organization clearer at the outset (as well Publications Committee approved a letter review packets out to reviewers, 237 were as the work of this committee) by writing of agreement returned. The average reviewer response 26 time was 29 days. advertising sponsors including Sprint, Borders (SSF) “Resolution on Imperiled Through July 31, 2007, there have been American Express, General Motors Sociologists,” written in response to the 219 editorial decisions. This includes 17 Corporation, the Proctor & Gamble arrest of sociologists in Russian and Iran. accepts, 15 conditional accepts, 28 revise Corporation, and Staples. These letters are XI. Nominations Committee and resubmits, and 159 rejects. Our posted on the SWS website. Submitted by Christine E. Bose, Chair acceptance rate on the year is eight percent. In July 2007, I also sent a letter to Dr. The average time from submission to edi- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the This year’s Nominations Committee torial decision is 34 days. The average Islamic Republic of Iran, and others, at the members are Chris Bose (Chair), Diane K. time from submission to editorial decision behest of Scholars at Risk (SAR), on Everett, Tina Fetner, Kecia Johnson, for externally reviewed manuscripts is 66 behalf of Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, a prominent Miliann Kang, and Sarah Sobieraj. days. The range of decision was 1 days international scholar and director of the For the Fall 2007 elections we seek nom- (min.) to 107 days (max.). inees for many officer and committee positions. The officers X. Scholarship and Human we seek are a President-Elect Rights Committee (2008-2011), Secretary (2008- Submitted by Christine E. 2010), Deputy Treasurer (2008- Bose, Past President, SWS 2012), and Student Representative (2008-2009); and the committee The Scholarship and Human positions include Awards Rights Committee is chaired by Committee Chair and one commit- the Past President and frequent- tee member (2008-2010); ly, as in this year, has no other Discrimination Committee Chair committee members unless the (2008-2010); International work demand requires addition- Committee Chair (2008-2010); al volunteers. The primary task one Career Development of this committee has been to Committee Member (2008-2010); write letters on behalf of human two Membership Committee rights violations related to Members (2008-2010); two scholars. Nominations Committee Members However, in April 2007, with input from Middle East Program at the Woodrow (2008-2010); and two Publications Committee many SWS members I wrote several letters Wilson Center for International Scholars, Members (2008-2011). These position open- in SWS’s name about the Imus controver- who was arrested and detained without any ings and our procedures are described on the sy. These included letters to CBS and clear basis. SAR believes this incarceration SWS website. We are seeking nominations and MSNBC (supporting their refusal to air the is part of a wider attempt to intimidate self-nominations, both through the website Imus show and eventually firing him), to intellectuals and limit academic freedom in descriptions and a Summer 2007 meetings the FCC (asking for more oversight of TV Iran. In the same month, we sent a letter in flyer, with a deadline of September 30th. The and radio programming), and to former support of the Sociologists Without final ballot will be available later in the fall.

University at Buffalo, SUNY, received a Jean-Anne Sutherland started a posi- grant of $299,334 from the National tion as assistant professor of sociology at People and Places Science Foundation for a three-year study the University of North Carolina entitled "Perceptions of Women in Wilmington this fall. Mary Frank Fox (Georgia Tech) has been Academic Science." Heike Trappe started a position as pro- appointed to the Science and Engineering Karyn Loscocco, University at Albany, fessor of sociology with focus on family Human Resources Expert Committee, received the College of Arts and Sciences demography at the University of Rostock, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Dean's Award for Teaching in May 2007 Germany Economic Sciences, National Science for her service in preparing graduate stu- Kris De Welde accepted a position in the Foundation. dents to teach, her commitment to quality Social & Behavioral Sciences department at Judith Lorber, Professor Emerita, undergraduate education, and her teaching Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, about race and gender inequality in the as of this fall. She is done moving! CUNY, gave a keynote address entitled wider community. Kathrin Zippel received tenure and "Sport: The Playing Ground of Gender," at Jennifer Reich's book, Fixing Families: was promoted to Associate Professor in the World Congress of the International Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare the Department of Sociology and Society for the History of Physical Education System was awarded the ASA Race, Gender, Anthropology, Northeastern University as and Sport (ISHPES) and the International and Class Section's 2007 Distinguished of July 1st 2007. She is the co-winner of Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), Contribution to Scholarship Book Award. the 2007 American Political Science Copenhagen, Denmark, August 4, 2007. Laurie Schaffner, SWSer since grad Association Victoria Schuck Award for the Betsy Lucal, Indiana University South school in the 1990s, won the American best book published on women and poli- Bend, is the new Chair-Elect of ASA's Sociological Association's 2007 tics in the year 2006 for her book The Section on Teaching and Learning in Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Sociology. Award from the Section on Children and Comparative Study of the United States, Anne Lincoln, Southern Methodist Youth for her work, Girls in Trouble with the European Union and Germany, pub- University, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, the Law (Rutgers, 2006). lished by Cambridge University Press.

27 Members’ Bookshelf The Caveman Mystique: Pop- porary issues in popular culture, children's rape. But over the years, laws have Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, sports, and women's and men's college and changed and prosecuting rapists has Violence, and Science professional sports. become more common. Taking the Stand By Martha McCaughey Each chapter is preceded by a short describes the criminal prosecution of Routledge, 2007 introduction that lays out the context in rapists from the perspective of the women which the piece was written. Drawing on who survived their violence and explores Has evolution made men promiscuous his own memories as a former athlete, if, when, and how the criminal justice skirt chasers? The Caveman Mystique informal observations of his children's process can work for them. Walking traces such claims about men's irrepress- sports activities, and more formal research through the various responses rape victims ible heterosexuality through evolutionary such as life-history interviews with athletes have had to the criminal justice process, science and popular culture. After outlin- and content analyses of sports media, Konradi's vivid analysis provides new ing the social and historical context of the Michael A. Messner presents a multifac- information to help raped women decide rise of pop-Darwinism's assertions about eted picture of gender constructed through whether and how they should participate in male sexuality and their appeal to many an array of personalities, institutions, cul- prosecution, to help friends and family men, Martha McCaughey shows how evo- tural symbols, and everyday interactions. assist them, and to improve criminal justice lutionary discourse can get lived out as the practice for crime victims generally. biological truth of male sexuality. Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics Taking the Stand follows 47 rape survivors Bringing together insights from the fields of Reproduction of varied ages and ethnicities, from the ter- of science studies, body studies, feminist By Susan Markens ror and trauma of rape through reporting to theory, and queer theory, The Caveman University of California Press, 2007 law enforcement, police investigation and Mystique offers a fresh understanding of indictment, hearings for probable cause science, science popularization, and the Susan Markens takes on one of the and trials, plea bargaining, and sentencing. impact of science on men's identities, mak- hottest issues on the fertility front -- surro- It focuses on women's experiences ing a convincing case for deconstructing, gate motherhood-- in a book that illumi- throughout the process and demonstrates rather than defending, the caveman. nates the culture wars that have erupted how every experience is different. The over new reproductive technologies in the problems that rape survivors face in the Gendering Bodies United States. In an innovative analysis of criminal justice process are not simply the By Sara Crawley, Lara Foley and legislative responses to surrogacy in the result of the adversarial nature of court, Constance Shehan bellwether states of New York and defense tactics, or their own emotional Rowman and Littlefield, 2008 California, Markens explores how dis- reactions to violent sexual domination. courses about gender, family, race, genet- Problems emerge from: (1) the social net- In Gendering Bodies, Crawley, Foley ics, rights, and choice have shaped policies works in which survivors are situated, (2) and Shehan demonstrate how gendered aimed at this issue. She examines the views their variable access to emotional and messages about bodies and the social of key players, including legislators, financial resources, (3) their lack of knowl- world shape our physical bodies and social women's organizations, religious groups, edge about the formal and informal prac- selves. At work, in sports and during sex, the media, and others. In a study that finds tices of courtrooms, (4) their lack of struc- gendered messages constantly organize our surprising ideological agreement among tural power in the criminal justice process, common, everyday settings through a feed- those with opposing views of surrogate and (5) standard procedures employed by back loop of confirmations and disruptions motherhood, Markens challenges common prosecutors and police. By recognizing in everyday talk and interaction. This book assumptions about our responses to repro- individual differences in rape survivors, is an accessible, yet comprehensive, theory ductive technologies and at the same time and their rape experiences, criminal justice of a sociology of the gendered body. offers a fascinating picture of how repro- personnel can better serve victims, and by ductive politics shape social policy. understanding the layers of criminal inves- Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender tigation and prosecution, survivors and and Sport Taking the Stand: Rape Survivors and their families can play a more active role By Michael A. Messner the Prosecution of Rapists on their own terms in an effort to bring State University of New York Press, 2007 By Amanda Konradi about justice. A rape survivor herself, Praeger Publishers, 2007 Konradi exposes in the raw language of the From beer ads in the Sports Illustrated victims the very sensitive nature of the swimsuit issue to four-year-old boys and Rape is one of the most under-reported topic and the personal obstacles survivors girls playing soccer; from male athletes' crimes in the U.S., and yet it is one of the face. By addressing each stage of the crim- sexual violence against women to homo- most vicious, devastating, and violent of inal justice process, she makes it easier for phobia and racism in sport, Out of Play all crimes. But getting justice for victims those who seek justice to make decisions analyzes connections between gender and has not always been easy. Often the victim and choose behaviors that will positively sport from the 1980s to the present. The is criminalized, demonized, sexualized, or affect their outcomes and their personal book illuminates a wide range of contem- otherwise attacked for her own part in the experiences with the system. 28 News from Local Chapters Florida: Tallahassee for next year's MSS meetings. At our annual container gardens were established for WHA By: Janice McCabe business meeting (also held during the MSS residents. We had our first Fall semester fem- conference), we selected a full slate of officers inist get-together in September 2007 welcom- The Tallahassee chapter met three times in and committee chairs: Past President - Cheryl ing four new members to the chapter. 2007- 2006-07. In the fall we met to discuss Linda Childers; President - Angie Moe; President- 2008 academic year plans include hosting a Hirschman’s book Get to Work: A Manifesto Elect - Sheri Hink; Program Chair - Trina US Gender and Trade Network conference in for Women of the World and to hear about the Smith; Program Chair-Elect - Sarah Bickerton; February and regular chapter meetings. research of the two news members of the FSU Treasurer - Sue Wortmann; Secretary - Gene Department of Sociology faculty, Verna Keith Deerman; Membership Committee Chair - North Central (NCSA) and Janice McCabe. Our spring semester Angela Simon; Hospitality Suite Organizers - By: Kathy Feltey meeting focused on the topic of gendered bod- Angela Simon & Jessica Edel; ies and included watching an episode of the Communications Committee Chair - Sharon At our meeting this year (the NCSA/Midwest series Trans-Generation and hosting a trans- Bouma; Tapestries Newsletter Editor - Angie Joint Meeting in Chicago) we co-hosted a gendered guest speaker. At the first meeting Moe; Listserv Mistress - Phyllis Baker; reception for Carla Howery and co-sponsored this fall the group will make plans for the next Website Developer/Mistress - Cheryl Childers; a number of gender research sessions. At the academic year. Find out more about us at our Honors and Awards Committee Chair - Gina NCSA meeting in 2008 in Cincinnati we will new website: http://www.sociology.fsu.edu/ Petonito; Networking Committee Chair - Julie be co-sponsoring sessions again and holding sws/ Raulli; SWS Liaison - Julie Raulli; MSS an SWS luncheon (which has become an annu- Women in the Profession Committee Liaison - al event). Michigan: Michigan State University, Lansing Gina Petonito; Midwest Feminist Papers By: Julie Hartman Editors - Michelle Hughes Miller & Marcie SWS-East Schumaker. As noted, our Program Chair, By: Laura West Steck Throughout the fall and spring semester we Trina Smith, has been very busy developing held monthly SWS "tea parties" at member's our slate of co-sponsored sessions for next The Eastern Region chapter of SWS had a homes – small informal social gatherings for year's conference. Website Developer and productive meeting in Philadelphia at the faculty and grad students involved in the Past-President, Cheryl Childers, has created a Annual ESS Meetings. Members in attendance MSU/Lansing chapter. In April we held a film prototype of a website, which we hope to have contributed a variety of ideas for ways in screening of "Linda & Ali," a Women Make up within the next year. Treasurer, Sue which the chapter can meet our primary objec- Movies documentary about an American-born, Wortmann, has spent many hours transitioning tive: to serve as a networking resource for Catholic-raised white woman from Kansas and updating financial accounts from our past SWS/ESS members. Proposed chapter activi- who moves with her husband to his home in treasurer. Secretary, Gene Deerman, has begun ties included the following: 1) An “intergener- Doha, Qatar. Following the film we held a the process of archiving our records for future ational” networking dinner to be held annually Q&A about gender and Islam with MSU use and reflection. Listserv Mistress, Phyllis at ESS meetings. The chapter would invite Sociology professor Dr. Khalida Zaki. Our Baker, continues to add members and update renowned SWS members to dinner, offering chapter is planning to participate in volunteer information on our listserv, which is our pri- others the opportunity to communicate and nights once a month at a variety of local mary means of communication outside of the connect with influential women sociologists. women's organizations as part of our "SWS annual meeting. Honors and Awards Our focus on “intergenerational” places Tea Party" gatherings. We are also planning to Committee Chair, Gina Petonito, has devel- emphasis on years of experience and influence host another film screening on campus, oped a call for papers for our graduate and in the field rather than age; 2) A regional although the specific film has not yet been undergraduate competition. Our Midwest extension of the Hand Program, which will chosen. Feminist Papers Editors, Michelle Hughes connect senior ESS/SWS members with junior Miller and Marcie Schumaker, have put ESS/SWS members during both annual ESS Nevada: Las Vegas together a very interesting CFP on harassment and SWS meetings. As is the tradition in the By: Crystal Jackson within academe. And finally, Angie Moe, upon national SWS Hand Program, “senior” mem- assuming editor duties of our newsletter after bers are defined as any SWS member who has The Las Vegas chapter of SWS met in spring the sudden and unfortunate resignation of past attended a meeting in the past; 3) A strategical- to hear about graduate student Crystal editor, Naomi Lacy, just assembled the sum- ly placed SWS table at annual ESS meetings, Jackson’s research. Her research analyzes the mer issue, which MSWS distributes three which will provide information about the construction of femininity in local strip club times annually. One of our main goals this year national organization, the Eastern Region legislation as an example of how shifts in con- is to update and reinvigorate our membership. chapter, and serve as recruitment/welcoming sumer economy are changing social gender Anyone interested should contact Treasurer, tool for SWS; 4) A strategically placed SWS and sexuality norms. Her analysis of Las Sue Wortmann at [email protected]. hospitality suite at ESS meetings to serve as Vegas regulations evokes competing cultural Membership is just $10 ($5 students). a gathering space for SWS members attend- assumptions of public and private sexualities ing ESS meetings and as a recruitment/wel- and femininities, indicating a fragmented Southeastern North Carolina Chapter coming tool for SWS; 5) Cosponsor work- acceptance of women’s expressions of com- By Leslie Hossfeld shops, panels, sessions with standing ESS modified sexuality. committees (i.e. Committee on the Status of In late May 2007 our chapter co-sponsored a Women, Committees on Graduate and Midwest SWS (MSWS) community garden kick-off event using funds Undergraduate Education, Committee on By: Angie Moe requested from SWS national office (which the Status of Minorities) focused on net- were greatly appreciated). The community working issues, strategies, and tips. On The Midwest chapter of SWS (MSWS) is garden was launched by a university-commu- another note, Emily Mahon, Executive quite busy at present. At last spring's Midwest nity partnership between Wilmington (North Office Director of ESS, donated several Sociological Society (MSS) meetings Carolina) Public Housing Authority (WHA) new copies of Arlie Russel Hochschild's (Chicago, IL April 4-7), we once again co- and the Public Sociology department at the book THE TIME BIND for the SWS-East sponsored over two dozen sessions and work- University of North Carolina Wilmington. chapter to sell for $5 a piece as a fundraiser. shops, and we have at least this many planned Participants planted summer vegetables and We raised $165 for our chapter.

29 JJobob OpporOpportunitiestunities University of California, San Diego ters of recommendation to: Faculty University located in the heart of one of the The department of Sociology at UC San Recruitment, Department of Sociology nation’s largest metropolitan areas. It is a com- Diego (http://sociology.ucsd.edu/) invites appli- (MC312), University of Illinois at Chicago, prehensive public university with a diverse stu- cations for the newly endowed Daniel 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607-7135. dent body of more than 25,000 undergraduate, Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought beginning To ensure full consideration, applications graduate and professional students. As an July 1, 2008. The substantive areas of the chair- should be postmarked by October 15, 2007. AA/EOE, UIC encourages applications from holder’s research will be open. However, the However, consideration will be given to appli- women, minorities and people with disabilities. holder of the Yankelovich chair should be a sen- cations until the position has been filled. UIC is The University of Illinois is an Affirmative ior scholar whose research and teaching clearly a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. demonstrate the ability to transcend the con- University located in the heart of one of the straints of their discipline in understanding nations’ largest metropolitan areas. It is a com- University of Kansas important issues and problems; the ability to prehensive public university with a diverse stu- The Department of Sociology at the place their research and thinking in the larger dent body of more than 25,000 undergraduate, University of Kansas invites applications for a context of society; and the ability to communi- graduate and professional students. As an tenure-track, Assistant Professor in Economic cate cogently and clearly, with a view to exer- AA/EOE, UIC encourages applications from Sociology expected to begin August 18, 2008. cising influence in both the academy and the women, minorities and people with disabilities. Specific research interests are in political econ- world beyond the academy. Interested individ- The University of Illinois is an Affirmative omy, organizations, and/or work. The ideal can- uals should send a description of research inter- Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. didate will be trained in the quantitative analy- ests, a curriculum vitae, publications, and three sis of global and local markets, networks, asso- letters of reference (under separate cover) to: University of Illinois at Chicago ciations, and hierarchies. This hire would also Richard Madsen, Chair, Department of The Institute of Government and Public contribute to strengthening instruction in core Sociology University of California at San Affairs and the Department of Sociology of the courses in statistics and quantitative methods at Diego, 401 Social Science Building – SWS, University of Illinois at Chicago are seeking the undergraduate and graduate levels. Salary is 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093- candidates for a joint, tenure track position at competitive with those at other research univer- 0533. The review of applications will begin the assistant professor level beginning August sities. Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D. January 31, 2008 and will continue until the 2008. The ideal person will have expertise in or terminal degree in Sociology by start date of position is filled. Salary commensurate with the sociology of health and/or medicine, strong appointment, plus an exceptional record of qualifications and based on UC pay scale. research skills, a research agenda that focuses research and teaching or demonstrated potential Applicants are also invited to provide com- on the policy aspects of significant health for such performance. For full position descrip- ments about their leadership activities and/or issues, and a doctorate in sociology by the time tion, see: http://www2.ku.edu/~clas/employ- contributions to diversity. The University of of appointment. Applicants must have strong ment/. A letter of interest (including explana- California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative commitments to research, teaching, public serv- tions of academic training and current research Action Employer with a strong institutional ice, and supervising student theses and disserta- agenda), vitae, graduate transcripts, selected commitment to excellence through diversity. tions. Salary is competitive and commensurate publications/papers, teaching portfolio (with with experience. More senior faculty may be evaluations or summaries), and three letters of University of Illinois at Chicago considered. To ensure full consideration, appli- reference should be sent to: Professor Eric The Department of Sociology at the cations should submit a letter of application, Hanley, Department of Sociology, University of University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) seeks to statement of research and teaching interests, Kansas, Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd. Room hire one or more Assistant Professors. We invite curriculum vitae, writing samples, and three let- 716, Lawrence, KS 66045-7556. (785) 864- applications for full-time, tenure-track posi- ters of recommendation to [email protected] 9412 ([email protected]). To ensure full consider- tions, at the assistant professor level beginning by November 1, 2007. Materials may also be ation, materials must be received by October in August 2008, pending final budgetary mailed to: Cedric Herring and Robert Kaestner, 22, 2007. EO/AA Employer. Women and approval. Candidates with research specializa- Co-Chairs, IGPA/Sociology Faculty Search minorities are urged to apply. tions in Sociology of Health and Medicine, and Committee, Institute of Government and Public Sociology of Work, Labor Markets, and Affairs (MC 191), University of Illinois 815 University of Maryland Baltimore County Organizations are encouraged to apply. At least West Van Buren Street, Suite 525, Chicago, IL (UMBC) one of the positions will require interest in 60607-3525. The Institute of Government and The UMBC Department of Sociology and teaching graduate and undergraduate theory. Public Affairs is a tenure granting policy Anthropology invites applications for a tenure- Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. by research institute with a dual mission of track assistant professor position beginning the time of appointment and have strong com- research and service to improve public policies August 2008. Primary research and teaching mitments to research, teaching, and supervising and the performance of government. The interests are open; however, preference will be student theses and dissertations. Salary is com- Sociology Department at UIC is an energetic given to those contributing to the department’s petitive and commensurate with experience. community of scholars committed to teaching, areas of focus in health and aging; diversity, More senior faculty may be considered. research, and using sociological expertise to gender & culture in global perspective; and, Applicants should submit a letter of application, engage with the world for the public good. UIC applied social science research and statistics. curriculum vitae, writing sample and three let- is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive Candidates are expected to have an active pro- 30 JJobob OpporOpportunitiestunities gram of research. The department has 17 full the Carnegie Foundation as a Research uate students and has recently been awarded a time faculty members with over 250 undergrad- University – High Research Activity. It has a Carnegie classification of a university with uate majors and about 40 graduate students. diverse student population of 12,000 graduate “high research activity.” It is located in a met- The department consists of three undergraduate and undergraduate students and is located in the ropolitan area of 1.2 million in the Piedmont major programs (sociology, anthropology and dynamic Baltimore-Washington corridor. region of North Carolina between the Atlantic health administration and policy) and an MA Salary and benefits are competitive. Applicants Ocean and the Appalachian mountains. The program in Applied Sociology. Faculty also should submit a letter of interest and qualifica- Department of Sociology offers the B.A. and participate in three interdisciplinary doctoral tions and a CV, and have three letters of refer- M.A. degrees and currently has fourteen full- programs in Gerontology; Public Policy; and ence sent. Pending final approval, review of time faculty. UNC Greensboro is especially Language, Literacy, and Culture. Faculty may applications will begin on October 15, 2007, but proud of the diversity of its student body and we also be affiliated with UMBC’s Erickson applications will be accepted until the position seek to attract an equally diverse applicant pool School (a new professional school focusing on is filled. Send materials via email to for this position, including women and mem- integrated studies of aging, management, and [email protected] or to Professor Jere Cohen, bers of minority groups. We are an EEO/AA policy) and its Center for Aging Studies. Recruitment Chair, Department of Sociology employer with a strong commitment to increas- UMBC is classified by the Carnegie Foundation and Anthropology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, ing faculty diversity and will respond creatively as a Research University – High Research Baltimore, MD 21250 (www.umbc.edu/sociol- to the needs of dual-career couples. Activity. It has a diverse student population of ogy). UMBC is an Equal Opportunity/ Representatives of the Department will be 12,000 graduate and undergraduate students Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities, available at the American Sociological and is located in the dynamic Baltimore- women and individuals with disabilities are Association conference in August. To apply, Washington corridor. Salary and benefits are encouraged to apply. send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a competitive. Applicants should submit a letter writing sample, and at least three letters of rec- of interest and qualifications and a CV, and have University of Minnesota ommendation to: William T. Markham, Search three letters of reference sent. Pending final The Department of Sociology in the College Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, approval, review of applications will begin on of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota University of North Carolina Greensboro, P. O. October 15, 2007, but applications will be announces two faculty openings. Appointments Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170. accepted until the position is filled. Send mate- are to begin no earlier than August 25, 2008. Initial review of applications will begin October rials via email to [email protected] or to For the first position, we invite applications 15, 2007 and continue until the position is Professor Jere Cohen, Recruitment Chair, from sociologists researching issues of migra- filled. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, tion, race and/or ethnicity, broadly defined. The UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD appointment will be at the rank of tenure-track University of the Pacific 21250 (www.umbc.edu/sociology). UMBC is assistant professor. Faculty seeking a higher Associate Professor Position, to begin August an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action rank may also be considered, depending upon 2008. Appointment is in the five-person Employer. Minorities, women and individuals qualifications and consistent with Collegiate Department of Sociology with the expectation with disabilities are encouraged to apply. and University policy. For the second position, that the successful applicant will rotate into the we seek an outstanding senior scholar, area of position of Department Chair. The Department University of Maryland, Baltimore County specialization open. For complete job descrip- is especially interested in applicants committed (UMBC) tions and application procedures, visit to pursuing issues of inequality and diversity The Department of Sociology and . Priority will be throughout the curriculum. The successful can- Anthropology of UMBC invites applications given to completed applications received by didate will teach five four-unit courses per year for a one-year full-time non-tenure track visit- October 15, 2007; later applications may be including social psychology and an introducto- ing assistant professor position beginning reviewed as needed. The University of ry major core course, with research and teach- August 23, 2008 and renewable for up to 2 Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and ing experience in at least three of the additional years. A Ph.D. and college teaching experience employer. following areas: urban; environment; immigra- are required. The teaching load is 8 course tion; globalization; criminal/social justice, equivalents per year. Teaching will include University of North Carolina Greensboro social service delivery and policy. In addition, some combination of introductory sociology, The Department of Sociology invites applica- applicants should provide evidence of collabo- anthropology, methods, statistics, and substan- tions for a full-time tenure-track position at the rative efforts with community groups with the tive specialty areas. The ability to teach a vari- rank of Assistant Professor. Substantive goal of providing in-depth, applied learning ety of courses at the undergraduate level is research and teaching fields may include: Social opportunities for students. Other related teach- desirable. The department has undergraduate Change, Family, Gender, Sexuality, Culture, ing and research areas may be considered based major programs in sociology, anthropology, and Social Psychology, and/or Media. Primary on the need of the Department. The University health administration and policy; a MA program teaching assignment will also include either of the Pacific is committed to experiential learn- in Applied Sociology; and is affiliated with Theory or Statistics. Candidates must hold or ing and undergraduate research. The successful three interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs: anticipate a Ph.D. in Sociology by August 1, candidate should bring an active research agen- Gerontology, Public Policy, and Language, 2008. UNC Greensboro is a growing research da in one or more of the above areas and be pre- Literacy and Culture. UMBC is classified by university with 16,700 undergraduate and grad- pared to engage undergraduates in research and 31 JJobob OpporOpportunitiestunities off-campus field settings consistent with the More information is available at copy to [email protected]. Review of appli- missions of the Department. This faculty posi- http://www.pacific.edu/admission/academics/g cations to begin on October 22, 2007; position tion also includes administrative responsibili- en_education.asp. The Sociology Department open until filled. SNC is an E.O.E. ties such as advising students. The Sociology values diversity and appreciates the perspective Department values diversity and appreciates the that members of a diverse community can bring State University of New York – Fredonia perspective that members of a diverse commu- to the enhancement of learning. Additional SUNY Fredonia invites applicants for a nity can bring to the enhancement of learning. information describing the Department is avail- tenure-track Assistant Professor position begin- Additional information describing the able on the Sociology pages of the University of ning fall 2008. Ph.D. in Sociology expected no Department is available on the Sociology pages the Pacific website (http://www.pacific.edu/col- later than September 1, 2008. College teaching of the University of the Pacific website lege/sociology/). Applications should include: experience expected. Must have a specializa- (http://www.pacific.edu/college/sociology/). 1) a letter describing teaching and research tion in deviance (with a sub-specialization in an Applications should include: 1) a letter describ- interests; 2) curriculum vitae; 3) evidence of area such as substance abuse, women in ing teaching and research interests; 2) curricu- research agenda and evaluation of prior teach- crime/prison, violence) and be able to teach a lum vitae; 3) evidence of research agenda and ing, if available; 4) examples of scholarship, but course in sociological theory (classical and con- evaluation of prior teaching, if available; 4) no more than three publications or manuscripts; temporary). Must also be prepared to offer examples of scholarship, but no more than three 5) names and addresses of three references. courses of relevance to Criminal Justice and publications or manuscripts; 5) names and Send to: Chair; Department of Sociology; Social Work majors. Other duties include addresses of three references. Send to: Chair; University of the Pacific; Stockton, Ca 95211. advising students, conducting and publishing Department of Sociology; University of the The University of the Pacific is an affirmative research and participating in university service. Pacific; Stockton, Ca 95211. The University of action/equal opportunity employer, encourag- Application procedure available at: http:// the Pacific is an affirmative action/equal oppor- ing excellence through diversity. www.fredonia.edu/humanresources/faculty.htm tunity employer, encouraging excellence Review of applications will begin on October through diversity. St. Norbert College 15, 2007 and will continue until position is Department of Sociology seeks a Ph.D. or filled. An affirmative action/equal opportunity University of the Pacific ABD for tenure-track assistant professor posi- employer, SUNY Fredonia encourages and Visiting Assistant Professor Position, one tion with particular expertise in (1) sociological actively seeks applications from minorities, year, to begin August 2008, with strong likeli- research methods with strong computer skills, women, and people with disabilities. hood of a second year renewal. Appointment is and (2) social stratification complemented with in the five-person Department of Sociology. race and minority relations in the U.S. Among University of Texas at El Paso The Department is especially interested in the additional specialties that would strengthen The Department of Sociology and applicants committed to pursuing issues of a candidate’s application are urban sociology or Anthropology invites applications for a tenure- inequality and diversity throughout the curricu- a comparative-international focus. track Assistant Professor of Sociology (higher lum. The successful candidate will teach five Commitment to excellence in teaching under- ranks considered) with a specialization in gen- four-unit courses per year, and will have a focus graduates in a congenial sociology-anthropolo- der beginning Fall 2008. Applicants whose on Criminology, with research and teaching gy department with significant numbers of research interests also include health, demogra- experience in at least three of the additional fol- majors and a commitment to the General phy, environment, crime, Latina/o, or U.S.- lowing areas: deviance; law; corrections; social Education Program is essential. Normal teach- Mexico border populations are especially justice and policy; policing and social order; ing load is three classes per semester. SNC is a encouraged to apply. The department is building human rights. In addition, applicants should be thriving Catholic, liberal arts college, embrac- research capacity and seeks scholars who prepared to work with local criminal justice ing the Norbertine vision of community. We demonstrate the potential for research publica- agencies and community groups with the goal welcome candidates from all faith traditions tion and external funding. The department of providing in-depth, applied learning opportu- who can address how they might contribute to offers an MA in Sociology and potentially an nities for students. Other related teaching and the College's mission. Please visit the website interdisciplinary PhD in transnational studies. research areas may be considered based on the at www.snc.edu/mission. The College features The position will also support an active and need of the Department. The University of the General Education, Honors, and Faculty growing Women's Studies Program through Pacific is committed to experiential learning Development Programs, and extensive overseas cross-listed courses. The successful candidate and undergraduate research. The successful study opportunities. SNC is selective in admis- must feel comfortable in a department with fac- candidate should bring an active research agen- sion with a stable enrollment of over 2000 stu- ulty from anthropology and geography as well da in one or more of the above areas and be pre- dents. Please send curriculum vitae/resume, as sociology. Collaborative opportunities exist pared to engage undergraduates in research and cover letter, three recommendation letters (or at nearby schools of medicine and public health, off-campus field settings consistent with the names of three references with contact informa- as well as other units within the University, missions of the Department. A further expectation and email addresses) to Dr. James Benton, Universities in Cd. Juárez (Mexico), and in the tion of this position is participation in the Associate Dean, Social Sciences Division, St. bi-national community at large. El Paso/Ciudad Pacific Seminar program on a continuing or Norbert College, 100 Grant Street, DePere, WI Juarez, with over 2.2 million people, is the rotating basis. The Pacific Seminars are the core 54115. Applications by email attachments are largest border metropolis in the world, offering of the University's general education program. welcome: send to [email protected], and outstanding opportunities for social science 32 JJobob OpporOpportunitiestunities research. A leader in minority education, will be considered but the PhD must be composition is filled. All underrepresented UTEP has approximately 20,000 students, pleted by August 2008. APPLICATION groups are encouraged to apply. To learn mostly urban, commuter, and Hispanic work- PROCEDURE: Send a letter of interest, more about the department, UTEP, and El Paso, ing class. Approximately 3,000 students are Curriculum Vitae, one sample of written please see http://academics.utep.edu/sociology. enrolled in rapidly expanding graduate pro- work, evidence of teaching proficiency if The University of Texas at El Paso is an Equal grams. The teaching load is three courses per available, and names of three references. Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. The semester (2/2 the first year) and applicants Send applications to Cheryl Howard, Search University does not discriminate on the basis of must be committed to teaching excellence. Committee Chair, Department of Sociology race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Preference and Anthropology, UTEP, El Paso, TX disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation will be given to individuals having an earned 79968. Review of applications will begin in employment or the provision of services. academic or a professional doctorate. ABDs December 1, 2007 and continue until the Opportunities to Participate CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are being sought for volume 26 of Research in The Sociology of Health Care published for- merly by JAI Press and now by Elsevier Press. The major theme for this volume is CARE FOR MAJOR HEALTH PROB- LEMS AND POPULATION HEALTH CONCERNS: IMPACTS ON PATIENTS, PROVIDERS AND POLICY. Papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving provision of health care and issues related to major health problems or population health concerns are welcome. This includes examination of social, demographic and structural problems and a wide variety of major health problems including chronic illnesses, serious acute health problems, and disabilities that require health care. Papers that focus on perspectives of patients, providers or health policy concerns as ways to meet health care needs of people both in the US and in other countries would be welcome. The focus can be from a con- sumer side or a provider or policy perspective. Papers that raise issues of the availability of services, access to those services, quality of services and the role of government in services provision would all be appropriate. Papers can focus on issues of services for specific diseases such as AIDS, heart disease and cancer or across a wide variety of health care problems or health care services delivery in general. For papers examining health care delivery systems in other countries, the focus could be on issues of delivery systems in those countries and ways in which revisions and changes impact major health problems and population health, especially if those are then also related to broader concerns in health care in the US or other countries as well. The volume will contain 10 to 14 papers, generally between 20 and 40 pages in length. Send completed manuscripts or detailed outlines for review by February 15, 2008. For an initial indication of interest in outlines or abstracts, please contact the same address by January 10, 2008. Send to: Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Sociology Program, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Box 873701, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4802 (phone 480 965-8053; E-mail, [email protected]). Initial inquiries can be by email.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Research Committee on Language and Society, RC25, of the International Sociological Association (ISA) is calling for paper and panel proposals for the First ISA World Forum of Sociology in Barcelona, Spain September 5th-8th, 2008. The RC25 theme for the conference is Speaking of Justice: Social Research and Social Justice. RC25 conceives of studies of language broadly and welcomes all varieties of sociological analyses of language/representation. Please submit an abstract (350 words maximum) by January 5, 2008 to: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, USA [email protected] and Isabella Paoletti, Social Research and Intervention Centre, NGO, Perugia, Italy [email protected]. For more information about the Forum go to: http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/

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In This Issue... Winter Meeting in Las Vegas ...... pg 4 Jessie Bernard Award ...... pg 6 The Life and Works of Jessie Bernard ...... pg 7 Summer Business Meeting Minutes ...... pg 18 Successful Request for a Reference Letter ...... pg 21 Committee Reports and Meeting Minutes ...... pg 22 Members Bookshelf ...... pg 28 News from Local Chapters ...... pg 29 Job Opportunities ...... pg 30

Next Issue... Submissions Due ...... November 15 Publication Date ...... December 15 Editor ...... Leslie Hossfeld Phone ...... (910) 962-7849 Email ...... [email protected]