Sociologists Backstage

Sarah Fenstermaker is Professor of Sociology and an affiliate of Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the Director of UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Social Behavioral and Economic Research. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her research on women and work, domestic labor, family violence, and the workings of gender, race, and class have resulted in a long list of publications. She is the author of The Gender Factory: The Apportionment of Work in American Households, an edited volume (with A. Goetting), Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology, published by Temple University Press, and Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change (with C. West), published by Routledge. Sarah is presently co-PI (with J.Mohr and J. Castro) of a Ford Foundation funded project, "Individuals and Institutional Cultures: Faculty as Change Agents," a national survey of the professoriate,

From the Foreword by Howard Becker:

Section 1: Urban Sociology in the Post-Civil Rights Era 1. Mary Pattillo 2. Scott Brooks 3. Alford Young 4. Mitchell Duneier Section 2: Global Ethnography and the Study of Transnational Labor Migrations 5. Milliann Kang 6. Hung Cam Thai 7. Nazli Kibria 8. Rhacael Parrenas Section 3: Studying Gender, Crime and Violence in the Era of Mass Incarceration 9. Meda Chesney-Lind 10. Victor Rios 11. Mercer Sullivan 12. Valerie Jenness Section 4: The Researcher As... 13. Karyn Lacy 14. France Winddance Twine 15. Denise Segura 16. Christine Williams 17. Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp