Self-Defense Training
“Unsettling Gender: Empowerment Self-Defense Training and Interactional Expectations.” Revue des Sciences Sociales 65:56-65 (2021).
“Empowerment Self-Defense Training in a Community Population.” (with Jeanine Cunningham) Psychology of Women Quarterly 44(2):187-202 (2020).
“Empowerment Self-Defense.” In Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research and Practice, edited by Lindsay M. Orchowski and Christine A. Gidycz. Elsevier (2018).
“What Works? Critical Components of Effective Sexual Violence Interventions for Women on College and University Campuses.” (with Charlene Y. Senn and Christine A. Gidycz) In Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research and Practice, edited by Lindsay M. Orchowski and Christine A. Gidycz. Elsevier (2018).
“Women’s Self-Defense Training and Sexual Assault Resistance: The State of the Field.” Sociology Compass 12(8):e12597 (2018).
“The Importance of Self-Defense Training for Sexual Violence Prevention.” Feminism & Psychology 26(2): 207-226 (2016).
“Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion, and Transformation in Women’s Self-Defence Training.” Pp. 187–203 in Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors Around the World, edited by Alex Channon and Christopher R. Matthews. Palgrave Macmillan (2015).
“Constructing Victims: The Erasure of Women’s Resistance to Sexual Assault.” (with Katie Rodgers) Sociological Forum 29(2):342-364 (2014).
“Does Self-Defense Training Prevent Sexual Violence Against Women?” Violence Against Women 20(3):252-269 (2014).
“Why Do Women Take Self-Defense Classes?” Violence Against Women 16(4):459-478 (2010).
“The Roots of Resistance to Women’s Self-Defense.” Violence Against Women 15(4):574–594 (2009).
“‘I Can Take Care of Myself’: The Impact of Self-Defense Training on Women’s Lives.” Violence Against Women 10: 205–235 (2004).
Gender, Violence, & Vulnerability
““Comment on Brush and Miller’s ‘Trouble in Paradigm: “Gender Transformative Programming” in Violence Prevention.’” (with C.J. Pascoe) Violence Against Women 25(14):1682-1688 (2019).
“Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape.” (with C.J. Pascoe) Gender & Society 30(1): 67-79 (2016).
“Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender Through Conversation About Violence.” Gender & Society 15:83–109 (2001).
“Resisting Vulnerability: The Social Reconstruction of Gender in Interaction.” Social Problems 49:474-496 (2002).
“Teaching About Gendered Violence Without Disempowering Women.” In Teaching Gender & Sex in Contemporary America, edited by Ryanne Pilgeram and Kristin Haltinner. Springer (2016).
“Challenging Despair: Teaching About Women’s Resistance to Violence.” Violence Against Women 11:776-791 (2005).
“Fear Journals: A Strategy for Teaching About the Social Consequences of Violence.” Teaching Sociology 28:192–205 (2000).
Language, Talk, and Interaction
“Unsettling Gender: Empowerment Self-Defense Training and Interactional Expectations.” Revue des Sciences Sociales (forthcoming, 2021).
“Interactional Accountability.” In The Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, edited by Barbara J. Risman, Carissa Froyum, and William J. Scarborough. Springer (2018).
“Language and Talk.” (with Miriam Abelson) Pp. 181-206 in Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality, edited by Jane McLeod, Michael Schwalbe, and Edward Lawler. Springer (2014).
“The Processes of Social Construction in Talk.” (with Hava R. Gordon) Symbolic Interaction 29:183–212 (2006).
“Resisting Vulnerability: The Social Reconstruction of Gender in Interaction.” Social Problems 49:474-496 (2002).
“Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender Through Conversation About Violence.” Gender & Society 15:83–109 (2001).
“Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television.” Pp. 43–71 in Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries, ed. Jodi O’Brien and Judith A. Howard. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell (1998).
Social Psychological Theory
“’I Demand More of People’: Interaction, Accountability, and Gender Change.” Gender & Society 27(1):5-29 (2013).
Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology (with Judith A. Howard, and Daniel G. Renfrow), 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (2011).
“Social Psychological Theories on Social Inequality.” (with Judith A. Howard) Social Psychology Quarterly 63:338-351 (2000).
“Social Psychology and Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality.” (with Judith A. Howard) Pp. 110–128 in Introduction to Sociology: A Race, Gender, & Class Perspective, ed. Jean Ait Amber Belkhir and Bernice McNair Barnett. New Orleans: Southern University at New Orleans (1999).
Resistance
“Conceptualizing Resistance.” (with Rachel L. Einwohner) Sociological Forum 19(4):533-554 (2004).
“Resisting Vulnerability: The Social Reconstruction of Gender in Interaction.” Social Problems 49:474-496 (2002).
Methodology
“The Social Contexts of Focus Groups.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 33(5): 602–637 (2004).
Teaching
“Teaching About Gendered Violence Without Disempowering Women.” In Teaching Gender & Sex in Contemporary America, edited by Ryanne Pilgeram and Kristin Haltinner. Springer (2016).
“Challenging Despair: Teaching About Women’s Resistance to Violence.” Violence Against Women 11:776-791 (2005).
“Learning to Discuss: Strategies for Improving the Quality of Class Discussion.” Teaching Sociology 30:317–327 (2002).
“Fear Journals: A Strategy for Teaching About the Social Consequences of Violence.” Teaching Sociology 28:192–205 (2000).
Social Movements
“Engendering Social Movements: Cultural Images and Movement Dynamics.” (with Rachel L. Einwohner and Toska Olson) Gender & Society 14:679-699 (2000).
“The Success of Political Movements: A Bargaining Perspective.” (with Paul Burstein and Rachel L. Einwohner) Pp. 275–295 in The Politics of Social Protest: Comparative Studies of States and Social Movements, ed. J. Craig Jenkins & Bert Klandermans. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1995).