Research and Teaching Interests:

Gender and sexuality, law and policy, social theory, culture and political economy, ethnographic methods.

Books: Monographs and Edited Volumes

Sexual Commerce and the Global Flow of Bodies, Desires, and Social Policies.  Guest editor of special issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy (forthcoming 2008).

 

Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex.  University of Chicago Press 2007. 

 

Regulating Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity, co-editor, with Laurie Schaffner. Routledge 2005.

Selected Articles

“Bounded Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex,” Intimate Labors, eds. Rhacel Parreñas and Eileen Boris, Stanford University Press, (forthcoming 2009).

“Sexual Commerce and the Global Flow of Bodies, Desires, and Social Policies.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy, (forthcoming December 2008).

“The Sexual Politics of the ‘New Abolitionism.’” Differences: Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Special issue on God and Country, guest edited by Elizabeth Castelli, 18:3, 128-151. 2007.

“Sex Work for the Middle Classes.” Sexualities, Special issue on Cultural Studies of Commercial Sex, 10:4, 473-488. 2007.
 

“Buying and Selling the ‘Girlfriend Experience’: the Social and Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy,” in Mark Padilla and Richard Parker et. al., eds., Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 186-203. 2007.

 

“The Transformation of Sexual Commerce and Urban Space in San Francisco.” Footnotes: Journal of the American Sociological Association, January 2004.

 

“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.

Policy Reports

Religion, Politics, and Gender Equality in the United States, with Janet Jakobsen.  Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, (forthcoming 2008).

 

Final Report of the San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution, co-author. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Board of Supervisors, February 1996.

Barnard College / Columbia University / Sociology at Columbia / Sociology at Barnard