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Women's Studies Department Faculty |
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PhD in Ethics and Society Email: jjakobse@barnard.edu Phone: 212.854.2067 Office Address: 101 Barnard |
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Research and Teachings Interests:
Professor Jakobsen teaches feminist and queer theories, sexuality studies, theories of women’s activism, and a course on religion, gender, and violence. Professor Jakobsen’s research interests include: feminist and queer ethics; religion, gender, and sexuality in American public life; social movements and feminist alliance politics; 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 the academy, she was a policy analyst and lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Publications:
Books
Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence,
edited with Elizabeth Castelli. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance,
with Ann Pellegrini. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Paperback Edition, Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of
Religious Tolerance, with a new forward by the authors. Boston:
Beacon Press, 2004.
Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and
Feminist Ethics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1998.
Articles
“Queer Is? Queer Does?: Normativity and Resistance,” GLQ: A
Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 4.4 (1998): 511-36.
“Different Differences: Theory and the Practice of Women’s Studies,” in
Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics,
ed. Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, Forthcoming.
“Is Secularism Less Violent than Religion?” in Interventions:
Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, ed. Elizabeth A.
Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
“Sex and Freedom,” with Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, in Regulating Sex,
ed. Elizabeth Bernstein and Laurie Schaffner. New York: Routledge Press,
Forthcoming.
“Queers are Like Jews Aren’t They?: Analogy and Alliance in Theory and
Politics,” in Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, ed. Daniel
Boyarin, et. al. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 64-89.
Revised version of “Queer Is? Queer Does?” GLQ 4.4 (1998): 511-36.
“Can Homosexuals End Western Civilization as We Know It?: Family Values
in a Global Economy,” in Queer Globalization/Local Homosexualities,
ed. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin Manalansan. New York: New York
University Press, 2002, 49-70.
"'He has Wronged America and Women': Bill Clinton's Sexual
Conservatism," Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the
National Interest, ed. Lisa Duggan and Lauren Berlant. New York: New
York University 2001, 291-314.
"Family Values and Working Alliances: The Question of Hate and Public
Policy," in Welfare Policy: Feminist Critiques, ed. Elizabeth
Bounds, Pamela Brubaker, and Mary Hobgood. New York: Pilgrim Press,
1999, 109-32.
Women's Studies Teaching:
Feminist Theories
Introduction to Women and Religion
Religion and Sexuality
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies
Queer Theories
Theoretical Issues in the Study of Women and Religion
Activist Interests:
Desiring Change, an intersectional organizing project with Amber
Hollibaugh and Surina Khan that brings together issues of gender, race,
class, and sexuality
