Sociologists of sex, gender, and sexuality explore changing gender relations, sexual practices, inequalities, and identities across national boundaries.
Read some of the works of our researchers:
Education
- Musto, Michela (2019). Brilliant or Bad: The Gendered Social Construction of Exceptionalism in Early Adolescence. American Sociological Review.
- Pyne, Jaymes and Michela Musto (2022). A gendered and racialized educational hierarchy: Disparities in elementary school teachers’ perceptions of student behavior. Social Forces.
- Qian, Yue and Jill E. Yavorsky (2021). The under-utilization of Women’s talent: Academic achievement and future leadership positions. Social Forces.
Sexualities
- Ghaziani, Amin (2021). Why gayborhoods matter: the street empirics of urban sexualities. In A. Bitterman and D. B. Hess (eds.), The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods, The Urban Book Series.
- Karimi, Aryan (2020). The role of intimate relationship status, sexuality, and ethnicity in doing fieldwork among sexual–racial minority refugees: An intersectional methodology. Sociological Inquiry.
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Karimi, Ahmad (2021). Sexuality and integration: a case of gay Iranian refugees’ collective memories and integration practices in Canada. Ethnic and Racial Studies.
- Qian, Yue, Yang Shen and Manlin Cai (2022). Gendered age preferences for potential partners: a mixed-methods study among online daters in Shanghai. Chinese Sociological Review.
- Silva, Tony (2019). Straight identity and same-sex desire: Conservatism, homophobia, and straight culture. Social Forces.
- Silva, Tony and Clare R Evans (2020). “How do adolescent social determinants and social contexts shape adult sexual identification?” Social Problems.
- Silva, Tony (2021). Still Straight: Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America. NYU Press.
- Read a Q&A with Dr. Silva here.
- Silva, Tony (2022). Heterosexual identification and same-sex partnering: Prevalence and attitudinal characteristics in the USA. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- Silva, Tony (2022). Subcultural identification, penetration practices, masculinity, and gender labels within a nationally representative sample of three cohorts of American Black, White, and Latina/o LGBQ people. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Social Movements
- Ghaziani, Amin (2021). People, protest and place: Advancing research on the emplacement of LGBTQ+ urban activisms. Urban Studies.
- Nelson, Laura (2021). Leveraging the alignment between machine learning and intersectionality: Using word embeddings to measure intersectional experiences of the nineteenth century US South. Poetics.
- Nelson, Laura (2022). The inequality of intersectionalities in Chicago’s first-wave women’s movement. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
- Nelson, Laura, Rebekah Getman and Syed Arefinul Haque (2022). And the rest is history: Measuring the scope and recall of Wikipedia’s coverage of three women’s movement subgroups. Sociological Methods & Research.
Sports
- Cooky, Cheryl, Michael A Messner & Michela Musto (2022). The gender in televised sports study. Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociology.
- Michela Musto, Cheryl Cooky & Michael A Messner (2017). “From fizzle to sizzle!” Televised sports news and the production of gender-bland sexism. Gender & Society.
- Travers & Jennifer Berdahl (2021). Wrestling with jello: “Good Dads” and the reproduction of male dominance in children’s baseball. Sociology of Sport Journal.
Work and Family
- Berdahl, Jennifer et al. (2018). Work as a masculinity contest. Journal of Social Issues.
- Berdahl, Jennifer and Barnini Bhattacharyya (2021). Four ways forward in studying sex-based harassment. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
- Bhattacharyya, Barnini & Jennifer Berdahl (2023). Do you see me? An inductive examination of differences between women of color’s experiences of and responses to invisibility at work. Journal of Applied Psychology.
- Fuller, Sylvia and C. Elizabeth Hirsh (2019). ‘Family friendly’ jobs and motherhood career penalties: The impact of flexible work arrangements across the educational spectrum. Work and Occupations.
- Fuller, Sylvia and Yue Qian (2021). Parenthood, gender, and the risks and consequences of job loss. Social Forces.
- Fuller, Sylvia and Yue Qian (2021). COVID-19 and the gender gap in employment among parents of young children in Canada. Gender & Society.
- Hanser, Amy and Yue Qian (2022). Pregnant under quarantine: Women's agency and access to medical care under Wuhan's COVID-19 lockdown. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health.
- Hershcovis, Sandy, Ivanna Vranjes, Jennifer Berdahl and Lilia Cortina (2021). See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: Theorizing network silence around sexual harassment. Journal of Applied Psychology.
- Hirsh, C. Elizabeth, Christina Treleavin, and Sylvia Fuller (2020). Caregivers, gender, and the law: An analysis of family responsibility discrimination. Gender and Society.
- Qian, Yue and Yang Hu (2021). Couples' changing work patterns in the United Kingdom and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender, Work & Organization.
- Wen, Fan and Yue Qian (2021). Constellations of gender ideology, earnings arrangements, and marital satisfaction: a comparison across four East Asian societies. Asian Population Studies.
- Yavorsky, Jill E. and Yue Qian (2021). The gendered pandemic: The implications of COVID-19 for work and family. Sociology Compass.
We offer the following undergraduate courses covering Sex, Gender, and Sexuality:
- 212: Introduction to Gender (currently in development)
- 312: Gender Relations
- 314: Sociology of Masculinity
- 369: Sociology of Sexualities
- 414: Feminist Theory
- 469: Queer Theory and Politics
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About this research area:
Sociologists of gender and sexuality explore changing gender relations and sexual identities within historical and contemporary contexts across national boundaries.
A central theme within feminist sociology, the exploration of intersectionality, recognizes the mutually constitutive character of social processes, structures and identities (e.g., through race, class and gender).
An example of research by faculty in this field is the examination of gender differences in settlement experiences among immigrants and refugees.
Pivotal to this field of inquiry is the examination of queerness—lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersexed, pansexual—past and present, in addition to the social construction of heteronormativity and heterosexual non-conformity.
Examples of research by faculty in this area include burlesque, striptease, neo-burlesque, industries of sex workers and sex-related social movements.
This area of expertise excavates the transformation of gender over time, space and the life course.
Examples of research by faculty include the complexities of ‘girl cultures’, school-based youth cultures and care-giving for the elderly.
Some sociologists of gender analyze processes of globalization, the segregation of the labour force, unionization and social policy.
Examples of such research include struggles for pay equity, service work and consumer culture, and single parenting in neo-liberal contexts.