Dr. Sweet is the author of The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and its Aftermath.
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An interview with Judith Stacey (NYU), a towering figure in gender studies, interviewed by Philip Cohen (Maryland)
Sociocast Presents a new installment in our International Perspectives on Sociology series: Ireland. The show is hosted by Sean O’Riain fand Paul Ryan from the National University of Ireland Maynooth, and Frances McGinnity from The Economic and Social Research Institute. They discuss Irish sociology and the major issues it faces: […]
Sex is distributed unequally. We discuss an analysis by Paula England calculating a sexual GINI coefficient.
This week, we speak with Boston University‘s Ashley Mears, the current chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Consumers and Consumption. She is also author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (University of California Press). We talk about her upcoming book on bottle service at clubs […]
An interview with Boston University's Ashley Mears about her research on the young women who work for VIP bottle services.