Live from ASA
UC Press staff and editors are having a great time at the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s annual meeting, Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Inequality on Families and Individuals. Here are some of …
Read More >Anxious Times in an American Suburb
by Rachel Heiman One afternoon, while working as an “ethnographic babysitter” during fieldwork on middle class anxieties amid the lead up to the economic crisis, I was driving 11-year old Doug to …
Read More >It’s Still Not Safe to be a Gay Teacher
by Catherine Connell “This is going to say a lot about me, but I wish there were more openly gay men and lesbians in [education]. I’m not going to run out and …
Read More >Inequality and the Roots of the Great Recession
by John Iceland What does income inequality have to do with the Great Recession? After all, wasn’t the recession mainly caused by hanky-panky in the financial sector (or, to put it more …
Read More >The Pursuit of Modern Consuming Femininity
by Sanyu A. Mojola Jacqueline, a Kenyan high school girl, wanted to be modern. She was not poor, but she nonetheless had needs. As she explained, “You know, if you are a …
Read More >From Pink and Blue to Brown: Gendering the Garden
by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Paradise Transplanted Cross-posted from Girl w/ Pen Are flowers feminine and lawn masculine? Or are gardens, with their domestic allure and food provisioning, feminine altogether? Thinking about …
Read More >Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times
by Marianne Cooper, adapted from this post in the Huffington Post “We are probably in the top 1 percent of all American households . . . So I can’t complain . . …
Read More >Trust Funds of Competitive Kid Capital
by Hilary Levey Friedman Lois was one of the most involved moms I have ever met. She gave up her professional career to manage the childhood careers of her daughters, which involved …
Read More >Local Food and Local Inequality
by Margaret Gray The burgeoning local food movement comes with a promotional promise: buying direct from the farmer seals a bond of intimacy, offers fresher and tastier products, and is more wholesome …
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