Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of queer studies and women's studies.
Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study,while examining social and cultural constructs of gender;systems of privilege and oppression;and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race,sexual orientation,socio-economic class,and disability.
Nancy Julia Chodorow is an American sociologist and professor. She began her career as a professor of Women's studies at Wellesley College in 1973,and from 1974 on taught at the University of California,Santa Cruz,until 1986. She then was a professor in the departments of sociology and clinical psychology at the University of California,Berkeley until she resigned in 1986,after which she taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance. Chodorow is often described as a leader in feminist thought,especially in the realms of psychoanalysis and psychology.
Patricia Hill Collins is an American academic specializing in race,class,and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland,College Park. She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA),and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association –the first African-American woman to hold this position.
Nancy Fraser is an American philosopher,critical theorist,feminist,and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City. Widely known for her critique of identity politics and her philosophical work on the concept of justice,Fraser is also a staunch critic of contemporary liberal feminism and its abandonment of social justice issues. Fraser holds honorary doctoral degrees from four universities in three countries,and won the 2010 Alfred Schutz Prize in Social Philosophy from the American Philosophical Association. She was President of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division for the 2017–2018 term.
Standpoint feminism is a theory that feminist social science should be practiced from the standpoint of women or particular groups of women,as some scholars say that they are better equipped to understand some aspects of the world. A feminist or women's standpoint epistemology proposes to make women's experiences the point of departure,in addition to,and sometimes instead of men's.
France Winddance Twine is a Black and Native American sociologist,ethnographer,visual artist,and documentary filmmaker. Twine has conducted field research in Brazil,the UK,and the United States on race,racism,and anti-racism. She has published 11 books and more than 100 articles,review essays,and books on these topics.
Beverley Skeggs is a British sociologist,noted as one of the foremost feminist sociologists in the world. Currently,she works as a "Distinguished Professor" in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University,developing a Center for Social Inequalities in the North West of England. She continues to run the "Economics of Care" theme at the International Inequalities centre at the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a visiting professor at Goldsmiths University. She has been the head of two of the UK's leading Sociology Departments,at the University of Manchester and Goldsmiths,as well as co-director of Lancaster's Women's Studies. In addition,she played a part in transforming Britain's oldest sociology journal,The Sociological Review,into an independent foundation devoted to opening up critical social science and supporting social scientists.
Jody Miller is a feminist criminology professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the Rutgers University (Newark). Her education includes:B.S. in journalism from Ohio University,1989;M.A. in sociology from Ohio University,1990;M.A. in women's studies at Ohio State University,1991;and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California in 1996. She specializes in feminist theory and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on gender,crime and victimization,in the context of urban communities,the commercial sex industry,sex tourism,and youth gangs. Miller has also been elected as the vice president of the American Society of Criminology for 2015,the executive counselor of the American Society of Criminology for 2009–2011,as well as received the University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Service in 2007.
Patricia McFadden is a radical African feminist,sociologist,writer,educator,and publisher from eSwatini. She is also an activist and scholar who worked in the anti-apartheid movement for more than 20 years. McFadden has worked in the African and global women’s movements as well. As a writer,she has been the target of political persecution. She has worked as editor of the Southern African Feminist Review and African Feminist Perspectives. She currently teaches,and advocates internationally for women's issues. McFadden has served as a professor at Cornell University,Spelman College,Syracuse University and Smith College in the United States. She also works as a "feminist consultant",supporting women in creating institutionally sustainable feminist spaces within Southern Africa.
Andrea Lee Press is an American sociologist and media studies scholar. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology,and Chair of the Media Studies Department,at the University of Virginia.
Lionel CantúJr.,was an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California,Santa Cruz,who focused on queer theory,queer issues,and Latin American immigration. His groundbreaking dissertation,The Sexuality of Migration:Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men,which was edited,compiled,and published posthumously,focuses on the experiences of Mexican-queer migrants.
Rosalind Clair Gill is a British sociologist and feminist cultural theorist. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City,University of London. Gill is author or editor of ten books,and numerous articles and chapters,and her work has been translated into Chinese,German,Portuguese,Spanish and Turkish.
Chela Sandoval,associate professor of Chicana Studies at University of California,Santa Barbara,is a noted theorist of postcolonial feminism and third world feminism. Beginning with her 1991 pioneering essay 'U.S. Third World Feminism:The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World',Sandoval emerged as a significant voice for women of color and decolonial feminism.
Multiracial feminist theory refers to scholarship written by women of color (WOC) that became prominent during the second-wave feminist movement. This body of scholarship "does not offer a singular or unified feminism but a body of knowledge situating women and men in multiple systems of domination."
Patricia Zavella is an anthropologist and professor at the University of California,Santa Cruz in the Latin American and Latino Studies department. She has spent a career advancing Latina and Chicana feminism through her scholarship,teaching,and activism. She was president of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists and has served on the executive board of the American Anthropological Association. In 2016,Zavella received the American Anthropological Association's award from the Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology to recognize her career studying gender discrimination. The awards committee said Zavella's career accomplishments advancing the status of women,and especially Latina and Chicana women have been exceptional. She has made critical contributions to understanding how gender,race,nation,and class intersect in specific contexts through her scholarship,teaching,advocacy,and mentorship. Zavella's research focuses on migration,gender and health in Latina/o communities,Latino families in transition,feminist studies,and ethnographic research methods. She has worked on many collaborative projects,including an ongoing partnership with Xóchitl Castañeda where she wrote four articles some were in English and others in Spanish. The Society for the Anthropology of North America awarded Zavella the Distinguished Career Achievement in the Critical Study of North America Award in the year 2010. She has published many books including,most recently,I'm Neither Here Nor There,Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty,which focuses on working class Mexican Americans struggle for agency and identity in Santa Cruz County.
Chrys Ingraham is Professor of Sociology at Purchase College of the State University of New York.
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development and Anthropology at King's College London.
Verta Ann Taylor is a professor of sociology at the University of California,Santa Barbara,with focuses on gender,sexuality,social movements,and women's health.
Nükhet Sirman is a Turkish social anthropologist. She earned a doctorate degree from Britain's University College London in 1988,and since 1989,she is a professor of anthropology at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul,Turkey. She has done academic analysis of the feminist movement in Turkey and introduced the concept of "familial citizenship" in the academic realm.
