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Women's Studies Department Faculty
ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology
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PhD in Sociology
University of California at Berkeley,
CA (2001)
Email:
ebernste@barnard.edu
Phone:
212.854.3039
Office Address:
332B Milbank
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Research and Teaching Interests:
Sexuality and the state; sexual commerce; the sociology of the body,
sex, and gender; ethnographic methods
Publications:
Books: Monographs and Edited Volumes
Sexual Commerce and the Global Flow of Bodies, Desires, and Social
Policies. Guest Editor, special issue of Sexuality Research and
Social Policy, December (2008).
Temporarily Yours: Sexual Commerce in Post-Industrial Culture,
University of Chicago Press (2007).
Regulating Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity, co-editor,
with Laurie Schaffner. Routledge (2004).
Selected Articles
“Sexual Commerce and the Global Flow of Bodies, Desires, and Social
Policies.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 5:4, 1-5 (2008).
"Buying and Selling the 'Girlfriend Experience': the Social and
Subjective Contours of Market Intimacy." In Mark Padilla and Richard
Parker, eds., Love and Globalization: Tranformations of Intimacy in
the Contemporary World. Vanderbilt University Press. (2007).
"Sex Work for the Middle Classes," Sexualities, 10:3, 473-488
(2007).
"The Sexual Politics of the 'New Abolitionism'." Differences: Journal
of Feminist Cultural Studies, 18:3, 128-151 (2007)
"The Transformation of Sexual Commerce and Urban Space in San
Francisco." Footnotes: Journal of the American Sociological
Association (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.
Women's Studies Teaching:
Feminist Theories of the State
Feminist Texts
Theorizing Women's Activism
Activist Interests:
Prostitution, trafficking, and migration; gender and gentrification
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