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About the Author
Tey Meadow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Meadow is the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century.
Kristen Schilt is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, and her work has appeared in journals such as Gender & Society and the Annual Review of Sociology.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Queer Work in a Straight Discipline
Kristen Schilt, Tey Meadow, and D’Lane Compton
PART I ANTI-ORTHODOXIES
1. The “Not Sociology” Problem
Kristen Schilt
2. The Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers
Jane Ward
3. Trans Issues in Sociology: A Trans-Centered Perspective
Emilia Lombardi
4. Beyond Academia: Strategies for Using LGBT Research to Influence Public Policy
Gary J. Gates and Jody L. Herman
5. Pornographics as Queer Method
Angela Jones
PART II RELATIONSHIPS
6. Not Out in the Field: Studying Privacy and Disclosure as an Invisible (Trans) Man
Cayce C. Hughes
7. Thank You for Coming Out Today: The Queer Discomforts of In-Depth Interviewing
Catherine Connell
8. Studying the “Right” Can Feel Wrong: Reflections on Researching Anti-LGBT Movements
Tina Fetner and Melanie Heath
9. The Mess: Vulnerability as Ethnographic Practice
Tey Meadow
PART III STRATEGIES
10. Challenges, Triumphs, and Praxis: Collecting Qualitative Data on Less Visible and Marginalized Populations
Mignon R. Moore
11. How Many (Queer) Cases Do I Need? Thinking Through Research Design
D’Lane Compton
12. Queer Spatial Analysis
Amin Ghaziani
13. Queer Persistence in the Archive
Amy L. Stone
14. Gendering Carnal Ethnography: A Queer Reception
Kimberly Kay Hoang
PART IV EPISTEMOLOGIES
15. Translation as Queer Methodology
Evren Savci
16. Queer and Punishment: Sexual Social Control and the Legacy of “Nuts, Sluts and Preverts”
Trevor Hoppe
17. The Demography of Sexuality: Queering Demographic Methods
Amanda K. Baumle
18. What to Do with Actual People? Thinking Through a Queer Social Science Method
C. J. Pascoe
19. Queer Accounting: Methodological Investments and Disinvestments
Carla A. Pfeffer
List of Contributors
Index
Reviews
— LSE Review of Books"This is an engaging and vital book that provides methodological advice and practical strategies for undertaking queer research."
“This book is sure to become a benchmark text and should become required reading in mainstream graduate sociological theory and methods courses.” —Judith Stacey, New York University and author of Brave New Families
“These deeply engaging and insightful voices will inspire the reader to embrace sociological research without fear and to nurture an academic life with genuine freedom and authenticity.” —Gloria González-López, University of Texas at Austin
“An ambitious, much needed, and, yes, inspiring volume.” —Brian Powell, Indiana University
“A testament to the power of collaboration, this bracing and timely collection brings together rigorously self-reflexive, politically committed work by a rising generation of queer, trans, feminist, and anti-racist scholars.”— Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania