Most post-communist states suffered severe recessions, while rapid economic growth followed where communist parties survived to implement market reform. These differences have been widely attributed to the varied economic starting points of these countries or to policy choices and evolving...

Some new discussions among feminist sociologists center around the suggestion that the normative expectations of male/masculine and female/feminine must be undone, because such a belief system is a source of global oppression, institutional inequality, and personal pain.Acknowledging the ways in...

While much academic work has celebrated the transformation and diversification of family forms, when it comes to how those families are made many scholars are much less celebratory.  In this talk, I recount the stories of my own family creation—which involved the “outsourcing...

Feminism, like any globally dispersed and historically long-lived social movement, is intricately intertwined with local specificities of opportunity in how it develops and where and how it succeeds.  By looking at both the discursive opportunities institutionally imbedded in texts with...