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Session Organizer: Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes, Tuesday, August 25 Northwestern University Presider: E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University The length of each daytime session/meeting activity Panelists: Marlon M. Bailey, Indiana University is one hour and forty minutes, unless noted Michael Kimmel, State University of New York-Stony otherwise. The usual turnover is as follows: Brook 8:30am-10:10am Jennifer Nash, George Washington University 10:30am-12:10pm In this session, leading scholars will explore issues around 12:30pm-2:10pm femininity, masculinity, race, representation, and pleasure in the creation and consumption of pornography. This will include critical 2:30pm-4:10pm examinations of popular claims about the content, consumption, and outcomes of exposure to pornography on consumers and the wider Session presiders and committee chairs are society. Drawing on theories in the fields of sociology, gender studies, requested to see that sessions and meetings end on and critical race studies, these scholars will offer innovative ideas to time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities analyze the complexities of pornography. scheduled into the same room. 485. Thematic Session. Sexuality and Body Size 7:00 am Meetings Session Organizer: Abigail C. Saguy, University of ASA Business Meeting California-Los Angeles Section on Labor and Labor Movements Council Meeting Presider: Michaela A. Nowell, University of Wisconsin- Fond du Lac 8:30 am Meetings Panelists: Jeannine A. Gailey, Texas Christian University 2014-15 ASA Council Members-at-Large Jason Andrew Whitesel, Pace University Film/Video Screening. Earth Water Woman Amy Shuman, The Ohio State University Honors Program Wrap-up Sabrina A. Strings, University of California-Berkeley Section on Crime, Law and Deviance Council and Lynne Gerber, University of California-Berkeley Business Meeting Sarah Quinn, University of Washington State, Regional, and Aligned Sociological Association Discussant: Carla A. Pfeffer, Purdue University-North Officers Central Research on human sexuality has been thriving for at least four 8:30 am Sessions decades. Yet, scholars have paid scant attention to how body size shapes experiences with sexuality. In an effort to remedy this silence, 483. Thematic Session. Housing Instability, Gender this panel brings together cutting-edge research on the way in which and Sexuality body size shapes people’s sexual experiences, as well as their Session Organizer: Melody L. Boyd, State University of understandings of themselves as sexual beings. It takes an intersectional approach, examining how experiences of body size and New York-Brockport sexuality vary by gender, sexual orientation and race. Specific paper Presider: Melody L. Boyd, State University of New York- topics include the (in)visibility of fat women’s sexuality, the experiences Brockport of fat gay men, and the racial and sexual biopolitics of yoga. Housing Discrimination: A Moving Target. Gregory D. 486. Thematic Session. The Career Consequences of Squires, George Washington University; Susan Studying Sexuality Scovill, M.Davis and Company Session Organizer: Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Housing Insecurity and Risky Sexual Behavior in the Michigan Poor, Urban Communities of Accra, Ghana. Meredith Presider: Janice M. Irvine, University of Massachusetts Greif, Johns Hopkins University Panelists: Janice M. Irvine, University of Massachusetts Psychological Costs of Housing Instability and African Beth E. Schneider, University of California-Santa American Mothers’ Cultural Resiliency. Ruby Barbara Mendenhall, University of Illinois at Urbana- Susana Peña, Bowling Green State University Champaign “Don’t study sex if you want a job!” This ASA theme would not be Gender, Poverty, and Mechanisms of Exploitation in the possible if that advice had not been ignored. Yet it has been ignored at Private Rental Market. Matthew Desmond, Harvard a cost. The panelists discuss the career consequences of studying University sexuality. Janice Irvine has surveyed sexuality scholars about experiences of discrimination in the field. Beth Schneider has studied This panel will focus on research in the area of housing instability sexuality for decades, was Special Features Editor of Sexualities for 10 and the ways that housing instability connects with gender and years, and mentored many young sexuality scholars as they have sexuality. The panel will provide an overview of the history of housing entered the field (many of which are now tenured)! Susana Peña offers discrimination and instability, and focus on current research in housing the perspective of someone who entered the field more recently, and discrimination and instability related to gender and sexuality. Panelists who combines a focus on sexuality with the study of race and ethnicity. will discuss the role of the rental housing market in creating both Her faculty appointment is in an Ethnic Studies department. She will opportunities and disadvantages for different populations. The panel consider the ways in which studying sexuality – particularly in will include research on the impact of housing instability on risky sexual intersection with race or class – leads scholars to find positions outside behavior, and the ways that the rental market discriminates against of Sociology departments. same-sex couples. 484. Thematic Session. Pornography and Sexualities 487. Author Meets Critics Session. Amigas y Amantes: Sexually Nonconforming Latinas competencies in solving real-world, interdisciplinary problems • Learn about an online community for sharing teaching resources that Negotiate Family (Rutgers University Press, 2013) can be used as an instructional aid • Discuss the opportunities and by Katie L. Acosta challenges that the revised test presents for your courses and Session Organizer: Verta A. Taylor, University of departments Having pre-meds in your sociology course doesn’t mean California-Santa Barbara you’ll be stuck with students asking “is that on the test.” Together, let’s Author: Katie Linette Acosta, Georgia State University investigate the opportunities it presents for improving student learning outcomes. Presider: Kari Lerum, University of Washington-Bothell Critics: Mignon R. Moore, Columbia University 490. Regular Session. Development and Gender 2: Amy T. Schalet, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Women and Work Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University Session Organizer: Kathleen M. Fallon, State University of New York-Stony Brook 488. Policy and Research Workshop. The Wisconsin Presider: Liam Swiss, Memorial University Longitudinal Study: Over 50 Years of Social Data Working Women Worldwide. Age Effects of Aggregate Combined with Genetic and Microbiome Data Female Labor Force Participation in 117 Countries. Session Organizer: Carol Lynn Roan, University of Janna Besamusca, University of Amsterdam; Kea Wisconsin-Madison Tijdens, University of Amsterdam; Maarten Keune, Leader: Pamela Herd, University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Amsterdam; Stephanie Steinmetz, Co-Leader: Huey-Chi Vicky Chang, University of University of Amsterdam Wisconsin-Madison The Double-Edged Sword of Women’s Employment and The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study is a panel study covering nearly sixty years, making it an excellent data source for researchers Gendered Practices: Lessons From Gujarat 1981- interested in linking early-life factors to later-life outcomes. The study is 2011. Alexandra Claire Feldberg, Harvard University; a sample of one in three Wisconsin high school graduates, and a Kathleen McGinn, Harvard University selected sibling, from the class of 1957. WLS is unique among social The Motherhood Penalty in Latin America: An scientific resources for the length with which it has followed a large population-based cohort sample and the inclusion of siblings. The most Exploratory Study for Argentina & Peru. Aida recent round of data was collected between March of 2010 and Villanueva, University of Texas-Austin; Ken-Hou Lin, December of 2012. The data cover nearly every aspect of the University of Texas-Austin participants’ lives from early life socioeconomic background, schooling, For Better or Worse? The Effects of Maternity Leave family and work to health, social participation, civic engagement, well- being, and cognition. The study also has a wealth of unique data Provisions across Developing Countries. Kathleen M. including examples such as administrative IQ scores from high school, Fallon, State University of New York-Stony Brook; information collected from high school yearbooks that include Alissa Mazar, McGill University; Liam Swiss, measures of attractiveness, proxy measures for obesity, Memorial University anthropometric and functioning, and complete lists of student activities for all respondents. Currently, the survey data can be merged with genetic data on ~90 SNPs. Shortly GWAS data will be available. We 491. Regular Session. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and collected ~300 stool samples from the graduate and sibling participants Transgender and ~100 samples from their spouses. We are using these samples to Session Organizer: Bernadette Barton, Morehead State measure participants’ gut microbiome. Administrative data include University Medicare records, Social Security records, and resource data on primary and secondary schools attended by participants. This Presider: Miriam J. Abelson, Portland State University workshop will introduce the study to researchers and attendees will be Attitudes towards Gay/Lesbian Rights and provided with a USB containing