Verta Ann Taylor(born 1948)[1]is a professor ofsociologyat theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara,with focuses on gender, sexuality, social movements, and women's health.
Education and career
editTaylor earned a degree insocial workfromIndiana State Universityin 1970, and then went toOhio State Universityfor graduate study in sociology, earning a master's degree in 1971 and completing her Ph.D. there in 1976.[2]
She continued at Ohio State University as an assistant professor of sociology, affiliated with the Disaster Research Center, which she directed in 1977–1978, and with the Center for Women's Studies, for which she was acting director in 1984–1985. She was promoted to full professor at Ohio State in 1997. In 2002 she moved to the department of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, also affiliated with the Feminist Studies Program there. She chaired the sociology department from 2005 to 2012. In 2012, she added an affiliation as a research associate of the Broom Center for Demography.[2]
Publications
editTaylor has authored books including:
- Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s(withLeila J. Rupp,Oxford University Press, 1987)[3]
- Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression(Routledge, 1996)[4]
- Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret(with Leila Rupp, University of Chicago Press, 2003)[5]
Heredited volumesinclude:
- Feminist Frontiers: Rethinking Sex, Gender, and Society(edited with Laurel Richardson, Addison-Wesley, 1983)[6]
- The Marrying Kind?: Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement(edited with Mary Bernstein, University of Minnesota, 2013)[7]
- The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism(edited with Holly J. McCammon, Jo Reger, and Rachel L. Einwohner, Oxford University Press, 2017)
Other highly-cited publications of Taylor include:
- "Social movement continuity: The women's movement in abeyance" (American Sociological Review,1989)
- "Collective identity in social movement communities: Lesbian feminist mobilization" (withNancy Whittier,inFrontiers in Social Movement Theory,1992)
- "Analytical approaches to social movement culture: The culture of the women’s movement" (with Nancy Whittier, inSocial Movements and Culture,1995)
- "Semi-structured interviewing in social movement research" (withKathleen M. Blee,inMethods of Social Movement Research,2002)
- "'Get up, stand up': Tactical repertoires of social movements "(with Nella Van Dyke, inThe Blackwell Companion to Social Movements,2007)
Recognition
editTaylor's bookDrag Queens at the 801 Cabaretwon the distinguished book award of the Sex and Gender Section of theAmerican Sociological Associationin 2005.[8]
She was given the Simon and Gagnon Award for Lifetime of Scholarly Contributions to the Study of Sexuality in 2008,[9]the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Movements in 2008,[10]and theJessie Bernard Awardfor Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Women in 2011.[11]
Personal life
editAn outlesbian,Taylor's wife isLeila J. Rupp,with whom she coauthored several works.[12]
References
edit- ^Birth year fromFrench National Library catalog entry,accessed 2020-10-15
- ^ab"Curriculum vitae"(PDF).June 2017.Retrieved2020-10-15.
- ^Reviews ofSurvival in the Doldrums:Marilyn Dell Brady,American Studies,JSTOR40642234;Wini Breines,Social Science Quarterly,JSTOR42862371;Steven M. Buechler,American Journal of Sociology,JSTOR2780630;D'Ann Campbell,The Oral History Review,doi:10.1093/ohr/16.2.141,JSTOR3675084;Janet Saltzman Chafetz,Gender and Society,JSTOR189743;Judith M. Gerson,Contemporary Sociology,doi:10.2307/2074165,JSTOR2074165;Nancy A. Hewitt,Signs,JSTOR3174711;Phyllis Palmer,American Studies International,JSTOR41278970;Abby Peterson,Acta Sociologica,JSTOR4194722;Ruth Rosen,The Women's Review of Books,JSTOR4020157;Athena Theodore,Social Forces,doi:10.2307/2579547,JSTOR2579547;Joan Tronto,Feminist Studies,JSTOR3178172;Lillian S. Williams,The Journal of American History,doi:10.2307/1901715,JSTOR1901715
- ^Reviews ofRock-a-by Baby:Martha McMahon,Contemporary Sociology,doi:10.2307/2655636,JSTOR2655636;Barbara Katz Rothman,Gender and Society,JSTOR190153;Wendy Simonds,Signs,JSTOR3175661
- ^Reviews ofDrag Queens at the 801 Cabaret:Joshua Gamson,Contemporary Sociology,JSTOR43185217,andMobilization,doi:10.17813/maiq.9.2.l070748528870594;Adam Isaiah Green,Contemporary Sociology,JSTOR3593949;Judith Halberstam,Journal of the History of Sexuality,JSTOR3704699
- ^Reviews ofFeminist Frontiers:Nancy Barnes,Signs,JSTOR3174269;Kathryn Feltey,Teaching Sociology,JSTOR3649674;Judith Kegan Gardiner,NWSA Journal,JSTOR4316950;Barbara Corrado Pope,NWSA Journal,JSTOR4315930
- ^Reviews ofThe Marrying Kind:Amy Brainer,Gender and Society,doi:10.1177/0891243214524020,JSTOR43669900;Michelle Kelsey Kearl,QED,doi:10.14321/qed.2.3.0144,JSTOR10.14321/qed.2.3.0144;Ken Plummer,American Journal of Sociology,doi:10.1086/676522,JSTOR10.1086/676522;Carol S. Walther,Contemporary Sociology,JSTOR43185728
- ^"Previous Sex and Gender Award Recipients".American Sociological Association.Retrieved2020-10-15.
- ^"Society of Sexualities Award Recipient History".American Sociological Association.Retrieved2020-10-15.
- ^"McCarthy Award".Center for the Study of Social Movements.University of Notre Dame.Retrieved2020-10-15.
- ^"Jessie Bernard Award".American Sociological Association.Retrieved2020-10-15.
- ^Rupp, Leila J.; Taylor, Verta (2006). "Becoming the professors of lesbian love". In Gibson, Michelle (ed.).Lesbian Academic Couples.Routledge.ISBN978-1560236184.
External links
edit- Home page
- Verta Taylorpublications indexed byGoogle Scholar