Elizabeth Bernstein

Assistant Professor of Sociology

 

PhD in Sociology University of California at Berkeley, CA (2001)

Curriculum Vitae

Email: ebernste@barnard.edu

Phone: 212.854.3039

Office: 332B Milbank

 

Research and Teaching Interests:

Sexuality and the state; sexual commerce; the sociology of the body, sex, and gender; feminist ethnography


Publications:

Books

Temporarily Yours:  Sexual Commerce in Post-Industrial Culture, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

Regulating Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity, co-editor, with Laurie Schaffner. Routledge (2004).

 

Articles

“The Meaning of the Purchase: Desire, Demand, and the Commerce of Sex,”
Ethnography Vol. 2, no. 3: 375-406 (2001).

 

“What’s Wrong with Prostitution? What’s Right with Sex-Work? Comparing Markets in Female Sexual Labor,” Hastings Women’s Law Journal, Vol. 10, no. 1: 91-119 (1999).

 

“Border Wars: Migration and the Regulation of Sex Work in the New Europe,” forthcoming in Trafficking and Its Discontents.

“The Sale and Purchase of Bounded Authenticity,”
forthcoming in Love and Globalization.

 

Review Essays

“Writing the Lives of Travestis and Jotas: Ethnographies of Gender Transgression and Commercial Sexual Exchange in Latin America,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 43: 137-149 (1999).

"Difference, Dominance, Differences: Feminist Theory, Equality, and the Law," Berkeley Women's Law Journal, Vol. 5: 214-227 (1990).


Women's Studies Teaching:

Feminist Theories of the State

Feminist Texts


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