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Janet Jakobsen
Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women
Janet Jakobsen is the director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She is also a member of Barnard's multidisciplinary academic program in women's studies and an affiliate of the program in human rights.
Dr. Jakobsen teaches such courses as "Feminist Theories," "Theorizing Women's Activism," "Queer Theories," and "Religion, Gender, and Violence."
Her research interests include religion, gender, and sexuality in American public life; social movements and feminist alliance politics; feminist and queer ethics; and global issues of economics and violence. She is currently working on a book project, The Value of Ethics: Sex, Secularism, and Social Movements in a Global Economy.
Before entering academia, Professor Jakobsen was a policy analyst and lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Selected Publications
Books:
Secularisms, edited with A. Pellegrini (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008)
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, with A. Pellegrini
(New York: New York University Press, 2003; Boston: Beacon Press, 2004, paperback edition)
Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, edited with E. Castelli (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998)
Articles and Chapters:
"Different Differences: Theory and the Practice of Women's Studies," in Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, ed. E. Lapovsky Kennedy and A. Beins (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006)
"Sex and Freedom" (with E. Lapovsky Kennedy), in Regulating Sex, ed. E. Bernstein and L. Schaffner (New York: Routledge Press, 2005)
"Can Homosexuals End Western Civilization as We Know It?: Family Values in a Global Economy," in Queer Globalization/Local Homosexualities, ed. A. Cruz- Malavé and M. Manalansan (New York: New York University Press, 2002)
" 'He Has Wronged America and Women': Bill Clinton's Sexual Conservatism," in Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, ed. L. Duggan and L. Berlant (New York: New York University Press, 2001)
"Family Values and Working Alliances: The Question of Hate and Public Policy," in Welfare Policy: Feminist Critiques, ed. E. Bounds, P. Brubaker and M. Hobgood (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1999)
"Queer Is? Queer Does?: Normativity and Resistance," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 4 (1998)
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Emory University
RELATED LINKS:
Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW)
Columbia University Institute for Research on Women & Gender
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Feminist theory
Queer theory
Religion and politics
Ethics
Activism
Public policy