James W. Messerschmidt is Professor
of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Southern
Maine. His research has covered such diverse areas as gender and
crime/violence, genderqueers, intersectionality, and global political
masculinities. Messerschmidt is the author of a number of books, including Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence:
The Struggle for Recognition and, most recently, Masculinities in the Making: From the Local to the Global.
James W. Messerschmidt is Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. His research has covered such diverse areas as gender and crime/violence, genderqueers, intersectionality, and global political masculinities. Messerschmidt is the author of a number of books, including Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence: The Struggle for Recognition and, most recently, Masculinities in the Making: From the Local to the Global.
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, most recently Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement.
Raewyn Connell is a sociologist, now Professor Emerita at University of Sydney and Life Member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Her books include Southern Theory and Gender: In World Perspective. She has worked for labor, peace, and women’s movements, and for democracy in education.
Patricia Yancey Martin, Emerita Professor of Sociology at Florida
State University, Tallahassee, specializes in gender and organizations.
She has published on gender as practice, gender as social institution,
mobilizing masculinity, feminist bureaucracies, and fraternities and athletics
in relation to rape on college campuses. Her books include Handbook of
Gender, Work and Organization, Rape Work: Victims, Gender & Emotions
in Organizations & Community, and Feminist Organizations: Harvest of
the New Women’s Movement.
Patricia Yancey Martin, Emerita Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, Tallahassee, specializes in gender and organizations. She has published on gender as practice, gender as social institution, mobilizing masculinity, feminist bureaucracies, and fraternities and athletics in relation to rape on college campuses. Her books include Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization, Rape Work: Victims, Gender & Emotions in Organizations & Community, and Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women’s Movement.
