Education
University of Michigan.
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( Judith Stacey, 2012 winner of the Simon and Gagnon Life...)
Judith Stacey, 2012 winner of the Simon and Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Sociological Association. A leading expert on the family, Judith Stacey is known for her provocative research on mainstream issues. Finding herself impatient with increasingly calcified positions taken in the interminable wars over same-sex marriage, divorce, fatherlessness, marital fidelity, and the like, she struck out to profile unfamiliar cultures of contemporary love, marriage, and family values from around the world. Built on bracing original research that spans gay men’s intimacies and parenting in America to plural and non-marital forms of family in South Africa and China, Unhitched decouples the taken for granted relationships between love, marriage, and parenthood. Countering the one-size-fits-all vision of family values, Stacey offers readers a lively, in-person introduction to these less familiar varieties of intimacy and family and to the social, political, and economic conditions that buttress and batter them. Through compelling stories of real families navigating inescapable personal and political trade-offs between desire and domesticity, the book undermines popular convictions about family, gender, and sexuality held on the left, right, and center. Taking on prejudices of both conservatives and feminists, Unhitched poses a powerful empirical challenge to the belief that the nuclear family—whether straight or gay—is the single, best way to meet our needs for intimacy and care. Stacey calls on citizens and policy-makers to make their peace with the fact that family diversity is here to stay.
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University of Michigan.
Her primary focus areas include family studies, gender studies, queer studies, and sexuality. Her book Unhitched explores family configurations that deviate from the standard Western concept of "marriage", including polygamous families in South Africa, the Mosuo people in southwestern China, and intimacy and parenthood among gay men in Los Angeles, California. She has published many works.
Stacey received her bachelor"s degree from the University of Michigan in 1964.
She received her Master of Arts in history from the University of Illinois in 1968, and her Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from Brandeis in 1979. In 1971, Stacey founded the women"s studies program at Richmond College (which became the College of Staten Island, City University of New York).
She was on the faculty of the University of California, Davis from 1979–1997 and was the Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California (1997-2008) before moving to New York University in 2003.
( Judith Stacey, 2012 winner of the Simon and Gagnon Life...)
Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China (1983).