Maxine Leeds Craig

Maxine Leeds Craig is an American professor, working in the sociology department at the University of California, Davis. ^[1]

Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race (2002). ^[2] Her second book, Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move (2013), was awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award of the American Sociological Association's section on Body and Embodiment. ^[3]

She was chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class for 2009–2010. ^[4]

Publications

• Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN   978-0195152623. ^[5]
• Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse To Move. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN   978-0199845293. ^[6]

References

1. "Maxine Craig". People. UC Davis Sociology. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
2. Smith, Richard Cándida; Wilmot, Nadine (2002–2003). "An oral history with Troy Duster" (PDF). Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. See in particular pp. 19, 177, 178.
3. "Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award". American Sociological Association. October 6, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
4. "Prior Officers". Section on Race, Gender, and Class. American Sociological Association. June 27, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
5. Reviews of Ain't I A Beauty Queen?:
   • Weitz, Rose (March 2003). American Journal of Sociology. 108 (5): 1133–1135. doi:10.1086/379573. JSTOR   10.1086/379573.
   • Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara (February 2004). Gender and Society. 18 (1): 145–146. doi:10.1177/0891243203257699. JSTOR   4149378. S2CID   220465148.
6. Reviews of Sorry I Don't Dance:
   • Jones, Emily Morrow (2014). Social Thought & Research. 33: 179–181. JSTOR   44807712.
   • de Oca, Jeffrey Montez (September 2014). The Social Science Journal. 51 (3): 493–494. doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2014.06.008. S2CID   217473846.
   • Bielby, Denise (December 2014). Social Forces. 94 (4): e105. doi:10.1093/sf/sou124.
   • Cserni, Robert T. (January 2015). Men and Masculinities. 18 (3): 394–395. doi:10.1177/1097184x14568525. S2CID   144426521.
   • Hancock, Black Hawk (May 2015). American Journal of Sociology. 120 (6): 1889–1890. doi:10.1086/680512. JSTOR   10.1086/680512.
   • Contemporary Sociology. 44 (4): 577. July 2015. JSTOR   43996468.
   • Barber, Kristen (February 2016). Gender and Society. 30 (1): 149–151. doi:10.1177/0891243214563072. JSTOR   24756175. S2CID   143475411.

External links

• Maxine Leeds Craig publications indexed by Google Scholar