Sex for Life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives

About the Contributors

| 349 About the Contributors Alexis A. Bender is a doctoral candidate in sociology and working toward a graduate certificate in gerontology at Georgia State University. Her scholarship focuses on medicine, sexuality, gender, and social relationships across the life course. Her dissertation is a longitudinal study of marital relations following spinal cord injury. Kristin Carbone-Lopez received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Her research examines the intersections among gender, victimization, and offending across the life course. Laura M. Carpenter, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and the author of Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences. Her research focuses on sexual beliefs and behavior across the life course, the politics of sexual health, and mass media depictions of sexuality and romance. In 2007, she was named an Emerging Professional by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Aniruddha Das, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago. He has published research on masturbation, sexual harassment, and sexual practices and problems among older adults. His other interests include the life course, biodemography , social networks, and semantic analysis. John DeLamater, Ph.D., is Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His recent research focuses on sexuality through the life course, using a biopsychosocial perspective. He was awarded the 2002 Alfred E. Kinsey Award for distinguished contributions by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and he served as editor of The Journal of Sex Research from 1998 to 2009. 350 | About the Contributors Heather E. Dillaway, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at Wayne State University. Her work on menopause is published in the Women’s Studies Review, Journal of Women & Aging, Healthcare for Women International, Women & Health, the NWSA Journal, Sex Roles, and Gender & Society. Yen Le Espiritu, Ph.D., is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She has authored three award-winning books: Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities ; Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love; and Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. Adam Isaiah Green, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research sits at the intersection of the sociology of sexuality, theory, and health. His work is published in Sociological Theory, Theory and Society, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Problems, and Social Psychology Quarterly. Caroline Heldman, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College, Los Angeles. She is a featured media personality on FOX News and Al-Jazeera, and her work has appeared in the top journals in her field. She coedited the popular book Rethinking Madame President: Is the US Really Ready for a Woman in the White House? William Jeynes, Ph.D., is Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach. He has spoken before the White House, G. W. Bush and Obama administrations, and the acting president of South Korea. He has authored more than 100 publications, including 10 books, many of which involve conducting meta-analyses. Edward O. Laumann, Ph.D., is George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He was a director of the National Health and Social Life Survey, the principal investigator of the Chicago Health and Social Life Survey, and the co-principal investigator of the National Survey of Chinese Sexual Practices. He is currently a co-investigator on the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, sponsored by the National Institute of Aging. About the Contributors | 351 Bronwen Lichtenstein, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama and is the author of the forthcoming book Colonizing Stigma: Race, Gender, and Social Power in the Sexual Epidemics. She received the 2007 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the American Sociological Association’s Race, Gender, and Class section and the 2010 Career Award for Contributions in the Sociology of HIV/AIDS. Meika Loe, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America. She just published her second book, an ethnography on...