Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

Contributors

251 Contributors catherine Bergart has been writing professionally for over twenty-five years. Her personal essays have been published in the New York Times, Marie Claire, and a variety of literary journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, mrbellersneighborhood.com, and Gander Press Review. One of her pieces was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays. She has been married for fourteen years to Ed, a man who happens to be quadriplegic. samantha Binford is a sophomore and an Honor’s College student at the University of Houston majoring in biology with a minor in Spanish. She is actively involved in several organizations on campus and hopes to pursue a career in the medical field. Hanne Blank is a writer and historian whose books include the first edition (Emeryville, CA: Greenery Press, 2000) and updated second edition (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2011) of Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them; Virgin: The Untouched History (New York: Bloomsbury, 2007); and Straight: A History of Heterosexuality (Boston: Beacon Press, forthcoming). Former Scholar of the Institute at the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women, Towson University, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland. chris Bobel is an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she teaches gender and the body, feminist research methods, and feminist theory. She is the author of The Paradox of Natural Mothering (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001) and New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010). elizabeth cherry is an assistant professor of sociology at Manhattanville College, where she teaches social movements, youth subcultures, and environmental sociology. Her research centers on cultural analyses of social movements and social movement analyses of contentious subcultures. Her work on veganism as a cultural movement was published in Social Movement Studies, and her research on animal rights activists’ strategies for changing cultural structures recently appeared in Sociological Forum. Hae Yeon choo is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research engages the issues of gender/sexuality, citizenship, and migration, and her work has been published in Gender and Society and Sociological Theory. She has translated the work of Judith Butler and Patricia Hill Collins into Korean. catherine connell is an assistant professor of sociology at Boston University. She received 252 Embodied Resistance her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2010. She received the 2009 ASA Sally Hacker Award and the 2009 Sociologists for Women in Society Cheryl Allyn Miller Award for her master’s thesis research on transgender employees. She has published articles on transgender employment issues in Gender and Society and Gender, Work, and Organization. Her more recent work examines the employment experiences of gay and lesbian teachers in Texas and California. Sara L. Crawley is an associate professor of sociology at the University of South Florida, where she teaches sociology and women’s studies on topics of social and feminist theory, gender, sexualities, and bodies. A big fan of autoethnography, she is the author of several articles on heteronormativity, sexualities, embodiment, and pedagogy, as well as the coauthor (with Lara J. Foley and Constance L. Shehan) of Gendering Bodies, part of the Gender Lens Series (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Lynn Davidman is the Robert M. Beren Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Studies and a professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. Her first book, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodoxy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), won a national book award and has become a classic in the field. Her other books include Motherloss (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) and Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies, edited with Shelly Tenenbaum (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996). She is currently completing a book on religious defection, Tears in the Sacred Canopy: On Leaving Orthodox Judaism. Denise A. Delgado received a B.A. in women’s studies and psychology from Arizona State University. She is currently a Ph.D. student in The Ohio State University’s women’s studies program, and her research focuses on Latina and African American representation in popular culture and the politics of passing. Heather e. Dillaway is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in sociology at Wayne State University. Her broad research interests lie within the study of women’s health and structural inequalities (age, gender, race, class, and sexuality). Her primary research project focuses on...