This workshop of faculty and graduate students meets about once a month to discuss a wide range of issues related to the study of criminology, law, deviance and policy. We read one or two papers per month in these areas, sometimes from students and sometimes from faculty, and we also usually host one guest speaker... Read more »
"Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century" Speaker: Tey Meadow, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Description: Something about gender is changing. Trans Kids is an ethnographic account of the first generation of families actively facilitating gender nonconformity in young children. Whereas previous generations of parents sent children who defied gender norms for psychiatric treatment aimed... Read more »
After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back A Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2019) After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism takes the long view of the successes and shortcomings of feminism(s). Chancer articulates a broad agenda developed through advancing intersectional concerns about class, race, and sexuality. She advocates ways to reduce the... Read more »
