Public & Press
Learn from social research relevant to such important topics as families and sexuality, work and the economy, politics and public policy, so you can be more informed and active on the issues.
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Be part of a group where you can network and learn from other sociologists while you help nurture feminist scholarship and make both the academy and the broader society a more just and feminist place.
Breaking News
Welcome Our New Executive Officer!
We are happy to announce that Dr. Barret Katuna is the new SWS Executive Officer. We hope you will join us in welcoming her. You may email Barret at swseo.barretkatuna@outlook.com. Soon we will announce additional details regarding our new SWS Executive Office location in the Greater Hartford Connecticut area. There is much work ahead of […]
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- SWS Post-Election Statement
- Preliminary Program for Winter Meeting 2017 Now Available!
- Pre-registration Now Open for the 2017 Winter Meeting!
- 2017 Membership Available. Renew Today!
- Election Results
SWSers In the News
- Researchers Find Racial Wage Gap Has Grown
- Faculty of Color and the Changing University
- Advising as Activism
- UT Austin Professors Challenge Campus Carry Law
- The Science of Preventing Sexual Assaults on College Campuses
- Ghosts of Rape Past: Can a Survivor Find Solace in Return to the Crime Scene?
- From Sanger Raids to Fetal-Tissue Research Battles: A Short History of Hypocrisy
- Emerging Feminisms, If College Heterosexual, Cis Men were Raped More than Everyone Else
Meetings Update
Thurs. Feb. 9 – Sun. Feb 12, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, NM.
Preliminary Program – as of December 13
Pre-registration now open through January 29th!
On Our Bookshelf
Women Doing Life (2016): Lora Bex Lempert examines the carceral experiences of women serving life sentences, presenting a typology of the ways that life-sentenced women grow and self-actualize, resist prison definitions, reflect on and “own” their criminal acts, and ultimately …read more.
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines (2016): Jennifer Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that make them …read more
Good Guys with Guns: The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry (2016): Angela Stroud utilizes in-depth interviews with permit holders and on field observations at licensing courses, examined how social and cultural factors …read more
Social Dynamics of Family Violence (second edition, 2016): Angela Hattery and Earl Smith examine all forms of family violence–child abuse, elder abuse, intimate partner violence, violence in LGBTQ families…read more
Gender & Society
Gender & Society features original feminist research and book reviews from diverse social science disciplines. Consistently ranked as a top journal in both Gender Studies and Sociology, the journal has almost 10,000 subscribers, with more than half of those located outside the United States. See the G&S blog here!
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Contact Us
SWS
P.O. Box 150
South Glastonbury, CT 06073
Executive Officer Barret Katuna swseo.barretkatuna@outlook.com
Administrative Officer Whitney Denning, swsao@outlook.com
Interim Administrative Officer (website updates, listserv, and log-on questions) Jazmyne Washington, swsinterimao@gmail.com
Please consult this page before emailing the Executive Office: Frequently Asked Questions