List of Available Lectures

THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP (click here for more)

• A Feminist Defense of Friendship

HOOK UP CULTURE (click here for more)

• Real Facts and True Stories of Hookup Culture (a talk for undergraduates)
• A Social History of Hook Up Culture
• Hook Up Culture: …to the Best of Our Knowledge (a workshop for health, counseling, and residence life staff)

AMERICAN DISCOURSE ABOUT “FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION” (click here for more)

• Female Genital “Mutilation” in the American Imagination
• Anatomy of an Outrage: Female Genital Cutting and the Challenge of Building Multicultural Democracies
• “A World of Difference”: How a Two-Tiered Model of Gendered Oppression Undermines Feminism Everywhere

INEQUALITY AND THE BODY (click here for more)

• Biology and the Gender Binary: The Surprising New Science of Sex Difference
• The Emancipatory Promise of the Habitus: The Body and Progressive Social Change

SEXUALITIES (click here for more)

• Exploring the Rainbow: Genders and Sexualities across Culture and Time
• Sex Machines and Sex Objects: How Stereotypes Subvert Sexual Pleasure
• Why Women Have Fewer Orgasms… and What To Do About It

SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGES AND PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY (click here for more)

• The Power of Public Sociology (for undergraduates)
• Doing Public Sociology: Notes from a Practitioner (for social scientists)