232 - Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender Paper Session. Feminist and Queer Methods

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Feminist and queer theorists have developed significant critiques of the objects and practices of sociological inquiry, suggesting alternative epistemological and methodological approaches to studying social life, structures, meanings, inequalities, and opportunities. This session will highlight these shifting practices and sociologists’ responses—satisfying and unsatisfying—to these changes. We welcome papers that examine a range of methods and methodological concerns, including conventionally qualitative and quantitative designs; queer and feminist understandings of the ethical implications of sociological research; studies foregrounding the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality; and empirical applications of feminist, queer, and queer of color critiques and theories. Papers may offer reflective examples of feminist and queer methods or may be sustained discussions of methods and methodologies.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Sex and Gender / Feminist and Queer Methods

Session Organizer

• Michela Musto, University of Southern California

Presider

• Michela Musto, University of Southern California

Individual Presentations

• Collective Dialogue and the Ethics of Caring: The Case for a Black Feminist Methodology - Jennifer Elyse James, University of California, San Francisco; Sonia Yasmeena Alam, Mills College

• Three Tensions in the Quantification of Difference for Population Health Research: The Case of Sexuality - Taylor M. Cruz, UCSF

• Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It - Jane Ward, Univ. of California-Riverside

• Learning My Mother’s Tongue: Affective Archives, Queer Shadows, and an Intimate Pakistan - Moon Charania, spelman college

Discussant

• Tey Meadow, Harvard University