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Queer Methods in Sociology

This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop practice and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific research, Other Please Specify presents to a new generation of researchers an array of experiences insights and approaches revealing the power of investigations of the social world. With contributions from sociologists who have helped define queer studies and who use a range of interpretative and statistical methods this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies in research design and execution all with the intent of getting queer research off the ground and building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield.

D'Lane Compton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Orleans. Compton is the coauthor of How Identities, Stereotypes, and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies and a contributor to several volumes, including the International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality.

Tey Meadow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Meadow is the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century.

Kristen Schilt is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, and her work has appeared in journals such as Gender & Society and the Annual Review of Sociology.

“This book is sure to become a benchmark text and should become required reading in mainstream graduate sociological theory and methods courses.” —Judith Stacey New York University and author of Brave New Families

“These deeply engaging and insightful voices will inspire the reader to embrace sociological research without fear and to nurture an academic life with genuine freedom and authenticity.” —Gloria González-López University of Texas at Austin

“An ambitious much needed and yes inspiring volume.” —Brian Powell Indiana University

“A testament to the power of collaboration this bracing and timely collection brings together rigorously self-reflexive politically committed work by a rising generation of queer trans feminist and anti-racist scholars.”— Heather Love University of Pennsylvania

352 pp.6 x 9Illus: 1 graph

9780520289277$29.95|£25.00Paper

Jul 2018