Women's Studies Department Faculty

ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology

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, forthcoming.

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

"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': Imagery and Activism in Contemporary Anti-trafficking Campaigns." 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).

Women's Studies Teaching:

Feminist Theories of the State

Feminist Texts

Activist Interests:

Prostitution, trafficking, and migration; gender and gentrification