Kristen Schilt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 245454 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kristen Schilt |
| NOMBRES | Kristen |
| APELLIDO | Schilt |
| FIRMA | SCHILT K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 717 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Thinking Sex in Sociology
In this article, we take stock of major developments in sociological approaches to the study of sexual life in the twenty-first century. First, we highlight the breadth of theoretical and methodological approaches within the sociology of sexualities subfield. We explore the growth of research that centers race, ethnicity, age, and geographic location within the study of sexualities. We also showcase the growing body of transnational research that…
What is ethnographic about digital ethnography? A sociological perspective
When COVID-19 health guidelines vastly restricted or shut down in-person ethnographic research in 2020, many researchers pivoted to forms of online qualitative research using platforms such as WeChat, Twitter, and Discord. This growing body of qualitative internet research in sociology is often encapsulated under the umbrella term “digital ethnography.” But the question of what makes digital qualitative research ethnographic remains open. In this…
Divergent Pathways
First‐generation, low‐income (FGLI) students attend college at historically high rates in the United States. However, FGLI students continue to struggle in transitioning to college, particularly in elite universities. In this article, we engage with interview and supplemental survey data from 40 FGLI students at an elite university to demonstrate how self‐advocacy skills—conceptualized as a form of cultural capital—can support FGLI students' tran…
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50
Un mec comme les autres ? Comment les hommes trans' rendent le genre visible au travail
Cet article examine la reproduction des inégalités sexuées sur le lieu de travail par le biais d'entretiens approfondis avec des hommes trans'. Avant leur transition de genre, certains ont eu une première expérience professionnelle en tant que femme, ce qui leur donne un point de vue spécifique d' outsider within sur les avantages que les hommes en général tirent de la subordination des femmes. Ils découvrent que, en tant qu'hommes, ils reçoivent…
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Framing the Faculty Gender Gap
The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology
The field of transgender studies has grown exponentially in sociology over the last decade. In this review, we track the development of this field through a critical overview of the sociological scholarship from the last 50 years. We identify two major paradigms that have characterized this research: a focus on gender deviance (1960s-1990s) and a focus on gender difference (1990s-present). We then examine three major areas of study that represent…
Heteronormativity
This entry provides a definition and overview of the analytic concept of “heteronormativity.” It details the origin of the term and provides three examples of how the term relates to gender inequality, sex segregation, and sexual prejudice. It ends with a brief discussion of the related term “homonormativity
The Importance of Being Agnes
Harold Garfinkel's 1950s case study of 'Agnes' is broadly understood as the locus classicus of sociological research about transgender people. Drawing on an analysis of unpublished archival materials from Garfinkel and Robert J. Stoller, the lead psychiatrist on Agnes's case, I locate Agnes' experiences at UCLA within a larger history of theorizing about gender and sexuality within the social sciences, and within the emerging field of transgender…
Born This Way
“Born this way” has become a rallying cry for many LGBTQ people, and a succinct slogan for the political logic behind mainstream US‐based gay and lesbian equality activism in the late 2000s. This short phrase—“born this way”—invokes the idea that sexual orientation is an innate, essential part of a person that cannot be changed or acted upon by others. Following this logic, homosexual people and their relationships must be incorporated as a valid…
Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics
How transgender rights legislation got framed as “bathroom bills,” with seemingly everyone trying to mark their territory.
From Multiracial to Transgender
In 2000, the US Census Bureau acknowledged multiracial Americans on the decennial census in an attempt to better capture racial heterogeneity and to more closely align what is publicly collected on forms with people's personal understandings of their racial identity. In this article, we start a discussion of how the census—a major source of political identity recognition and legitimation—could be more inclusive of gender variance. We ask: (1) Is …
Anxiety at the Archive
This article is a piece of experimental writing by Chase Joynt, a moving-image artist and writer, and Kristen Schilt, a professor of sociology. In this short piece, the authors track their affective and experiential engagements with objects found in the archives of Robert J. Stoller, a psychiatrist who helmed the Gender Identity Clinic at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1950s–70s and who was a key figure in the medicalization of…
The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men
In this article, the authors consider how trans men's decisions about physical body modifications impact their sense of themselves as gendered and sexual actors. Based on interviews with 74 trans men, the authors explore how their embodiment, gender identity, erotic ideation, lifetime of sexual practices, and domain of potential partners-what the authors term "sexual habitus"-can be affirmed, transformed, or challenged as their embodiment changes…
Doing Gender, Determining Gender
This article explores 'determining gender,' the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories. We draw on three case studies showcasing moments of conflict over who counts as a man and who counts as a woman: public debates over the expansion of transgender employment rights, policies determining eligibility of transgender people for competitive sports, and proposals to remove the genital surgery requirement for a chang…
Public Conversation
Just One of the Guys?
Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity
This article brings together two case studies that examine how nontransgender people, 'gender normals,' interact with transgender people to highlight the connections between doing gender and heteronormativity. By contrasting public and private interactions that range from nonsexual to sexualized to sexual, the authors show how gender and sexuality are inextricably tied together. The authors demonstrate that the criteria for membership in a gender…
Teaching Transgender
The recent visibility of transgender lives demonstrates the dawning of a new period in the potential to include transgender topics in sociology courses. The focus on transgender individuals, communities, and inclusive initiatives are gaining momentum on many public and private college and university campuses, awakening old and new curiosities, igniting student activists and advocates everywhere. Such developments provide an important opportunity …
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The Unfinished Business of Sexuality
Margaret L. Andersen provides an insightful overview of the development of feminist studies in sociology and a roadmap for the future. Using her impressive history as a feminist sociologist as a backdrop, she illustrates the inroads women and gender scholarship have made into mainstream sociology. However, as a junior gender/sexuality scholar and generational product of third-wave feminism, I raise three queries to Andersen’s conceptualization. I…
Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble
This article examines what happens when an employee makes the transition from one recognized gender category to another and remains in the same job. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transmen and transwomen in Texas and California, we illustrate how a new social gender identity is interactionally achieved in these open workplace transitions. While transgender people often are represented as purposefully adopting hyper-feminine or masculine gend…
Just One of the Guys
This article examines the reproduction of gendered workplace inequalities through in-depth interviews with female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs). Many FTMs enter the workforce as women and then transition to become men, an experience that can provide them with an 'outsider-within' perspective on the 'patriarchal dividend'-the advantages men in general gain from the subordination of women. Many of the respondents in this article find themselves, as m…
“Riot Grrrl Is . . .”
Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity
This article brings together two case studies that examine how nontransgender people, 'gender normals,' interact with transgender people to highlight the connections between doing gender and heteronormativity. By contrasting public and private interactions that range from nonsexual to sexualized to sexual, the authors show how gender and sexuality are inextricably tied together. The authors demonstrate that the criteria for membership in a gender…
Doing Gender, Determining Gender
This article explores 'determining gender,' the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories. We draw on three case studies showcasing moments of conflict over who counts as a man and who counts as a woman: public debates over the expansion of transgender employment rights, policies determining eligibility of transgender people for competitive sports, and proposals to remove the genital surgery requirement for a chang…
Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble
This article examines what happens when an employee makes the transition from one recognized gender category to another and remains in the same job. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transmen and transwomen in Texas and California, we illustrate how a new social gender identity is interactionally achieved in these open workplace transitions. While transgender people often are represented as purposefully adopting hyper-feminine or masculine gend…
The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology
The field of transgender studies has grown exponentially in sociology over the last decade. In this review, we track the development of this field through a critical overview of the sociological scholarship from the last 50 years. We identify two major paradigms that have characterized this research: a focus on gender deviance (1960s-1990s) and a focus on gender difference (1990s-present). We then examine three major areas of study that represent…
Just One of the Guys
This article examines the reproduction of gendered workplace inequalities through in-depth interviews with female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs). Many FTMs enter the workforce as women and then transition to become men, an experience that can provide them with an 'outsider-within' perspective on the 'patriarchal dividend'-the advantages men in general gain from the subordination of women. Many of the respondents in this article find themselves, as m…
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The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men
In this article, the authors consider how trans men's decisions about physical body modifications impact their sense of themselves as gendered and sexual actors. Based on interviews with 74 trans men, the authors explore how their embodiment, gender identity, erotic ideation, lifetime of sexual practices, and domain of potential partners-what the authors term "sexual habitus"-can be affirmed, transformed, or challenged as their embodiment changes…
A Little Too Ironic’
(2003). ‘A Little Too Ironic’: The Appropriation and Packaging of Riot Grrrl Politics by Mainstream Female Musicians. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 5-16
I'll Resist with Every Inch and Every Breath
Scholars who argue that girls lose their confidence during adolescence neglect to examine girls who do not lose their voice as teenagers. Based on written interviews and textual analysis of zines produced by girls involved in the feminist subculture of Riot Grrrl, this article maintains that zine making is one way girls form support networks and create a safe space to examine and resist the cultural devaluation of women
Teaching Transgender
The recent visibility of transgender lives demonstrates the dawning of a new period in the potential to include transgender topics in sociology courses. The focus on transgender individuals, communities, and inclusive initiatives are gaining momentum on many public and private college and university campuses, awakening old and new curiosities, igniting student activists and advocates everywhere. Such developments provide an important opportunity …
From Multiracial to Transgender
In 2000, the US Census Bureau acknowledged multiracial Americans on the decennial census in an attempt to better capture racial heterogeneity and to more closely align what is publicly collected on forms with people's personal understandings of their racial identity. In this article, we start a discussion of how the census—a major source of political identity recognition and legitimation—could be more inclusive of gender variance. We ask: (1) Is …
The Importance of Being Agnes
Harold Garfinkel's 1950s case study of 'Agnes' is broadly understood as the locus classicus of sociological research about transgender people. Drawing on an analysis of unpublished archival materials from Garfinkel and Robert J. Stoller, the lead psychiatrist on Agnes's case, I locate Agnes' experiences at UCLA within a larger history of theorizing about gender and sexuality within the social sciences, and within the emerging field of transgender…
Framing the Faculty Gender Gap
Anxiety at the Archive
This article is a piece of experimental writing by Chase Joynt, a moving-image artist and writer, and Kristen Schilt, a professor of sociology. In this short piece, the authors track their affective and experiential engagements with objects found in the archives of Robert J. Stoller, a psychiatrist who helmed the Gender Identity Clinic at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1950s–70s and who was a key figure in the medicalization of…
Access Denied
The Unfinished Business of Sexuality
Margaret L. Andersen provides an insightful overview of the development of feminist studies in sociology and a roadmap for the future. Using her impressive history as a feminist sociologist as a backdrop, she illustrates the inroads women and gender scholarship have made into mainstream sociology. However, as a junior gender/sexuality scholar and generational product of third-wave feminism, I raise three queries to Andersen’s conceptualization. I…
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50
AM/FM Activism”
As a cultural approach to LGBT activism, media advocacy, such as that modeled by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), has grown in importance in the last decade. Drawing on the tactics used to educate the media about national anti-gay defamation issues, GLAAD has recently launched “AM/FM Activism,” an online resource that provides local activists with the tools necessary for responding to defamation in their own communities. B…
Voices of Reason
A Little Too Ironic’
(2003). ‘A Little Too Ironic’: The Appropriation and Packaging of Riot Grrrl Politics by Mainstream Female Musicians. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 5-16
I'll Resist with Every Inch and Every Breath
Scholars who argue that girls lose their confidence during adolescence neglect to examine girls who do not lose their voice as teenagers. Based on written interviews and textual analysis of zines produced by girls involved in the feminist subculture of Riot Grrrl, this article maintains that zine making is one way girls form support networks and create a safe space to examine and resist the cultural devaluation of women
“Riot Grrrl Is . . .”
AM/FM Activism”
As a cultural approach to LGBT activism, media advocacy, such as that modeled by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), has grown in importance in the last decade. Drawing on the tactics used to educate the media about national anti-gay defamation issues, GLAAD has recently launched “AM/FM Activism,” an online resource that provides local activists with the tools necessary for responding to defamation in their own communities. B…
Just One of the Guys
This article examines the reproduction of gendered workplace inequalities through in-depth interviews with female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs). Many FTMs enter the workforce as women and then transition to become men, an experience that can provide them with an 'outsider-within' perspective on the 'patriarchal dividend'-the advantages men in general gain from the subordination of women. Many of the respondents in this article find themselves, as m…
Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make Gender Trouble
This article examines what happens when an employee makes the transition from one recognized gender category to another and remains in the same job. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transmen and transwomen in Texas and California, we illustrate how a new social gender identity is interactionally achieved in these open workplace transitions. While transgender people often are represented as purposefully adopting hyper-feminine or masculine gend…
Teaching Transgender
The recent visibility of transgender lives demonstrates the dawning of a new period in the potential to include transgender topics in sociology courses. The focus on transgender individuals, communities, and inclusive initiatives are gaining momentum on many public and private college and university campuses, awakening old and new curiosities, igniting student activists and advocates everywhere. Such developments provide an important opportunity …
Access Denied
The Unfinished Business of Sexuality
Margaret L. Andersen provides an insightful overview of the development of feminist studies in sociology and a roadmap for the future. Using her impressive history as a feminist sociologist as a backdrop, she illustrates the inroads women and gender scholarship have made into mainstream sociology. However, as a junior gender/sexuality scholar and generational product of third-wave feminism, I raise three queries to Andersen’s conceptualization. I…
Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity
This article brings together two case studies that examine how nontransgender people, 'gender normals,' interact with transgender people to highlight the connections between doing gender and heteronormativity. By contrasting public and private interactions that range from nonsexual to sexualized to sexual, the authors show how gender and sexuality are inextricably tied together. The authors demonstrate that the criteria for membership in a gender…
Just One of the Guys?
The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men
In this article, the authors consider how trans men's decisions about physical body modifications impact their sense of themselves as gendered and sexual actors. Based on interviews with 74 trans men, the authors explore how their embodiment, gender identity, erotic ideation, lifetime of sexual practices, and domain of potential partners-what the authors term "sexual habitus"-can be affirmed, transformed, or challenged as their embodiment changes…
Doing Gender, Determining Gender
This article explores 'determining gender,' the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories. We draw on three case studies showcasing moments of conflict over who counts as a man and who counts as a woman: public debates over the expansion of transgender employment rights, policies determining eligibility of transgender people for competitive sports, and proposals to remove the genital surgery requirement for a chang…
Public Conversation
Born This Way
“Born this way” has become a rallying cry for many LGBTQ people, and a succinct slogan for the political logic behind mainstream US‐based gay and lesbian equality activism in the late 2000s. This short phrase—“born this way”—invokes the idea that sexual orientation is an innate, essential part of a person that cannot be changed or acted upon by others. Following this logic, homosexual people and their relationships must be incorporated as a valid…
Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics
How transgender rights legislation got framed as “bathroom bills,” with seemingly everyone trying to mark their territory.
From Multiracial to Transgender
In 2000, the US Census Bureau acknowledged multiracial Americans on the decennial census in an attempt to better capture racial heterogeneity and to more closely align what is publicly collected on forms with people's personal understandings of their racial identity. In this article, we start a discussion of how the census—a major source of political identity recognition and legitimation—could be more inclusive of gender variance. We ask: (1) Is …
Anxiety at the Archive
This article is a piece of experimental writing by Chase Joynt, a moving-image artist and writer, and Kristen Schilt, a professor of sociology. In this short piece, the authors track their affective and experiential engagements with objects found in the archives of Robert J. Stoller, a psychiatrist who helmed the Gender Identity Clinic at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1950s–70s and who was a key figure in the medicalization of…
Heteronormativity
This entry provides a definition and overview of the analytic concept of “heteronormativity.” It details the origin of the term and provides three examples of how the term relates to gender inequality, sex segregation, and sexual prejudice. It ends with a brief discussion of the related term “homonormativity
The Importance of Being Agnes
Harold Garfinkel's 1950s case study of 'Agnes' is broadly understood as the locus classicus of sociological research about transgender people. Drawing on an analysis of unpublished archival materials from Garfinkel and Robert J. Stoller, the lead psychiatrist on Agnes's case, I locate Agnes' experiences at UCLA within a larger history of theorizing about gender and sexuality within the social sciences, and within the emerging field of transgender…
Framing the Faculty Gender Gap
The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology
The field of transgender studies has grown exponentially in sociology over the last decade. In this review, we track the development of this field through a critical overview of the sociological scholarship from the last 50 years. We identify two major paradigms that have characterized this research: a focus on gender deviance (1960s-1990s) and a focus on gender difference (1990s-present). We then examine three major areas of study that represent…
Other, Please Specify
What is ethnographic about digital ethnography? A sociological perspective
When COVID-19 health guidelines vastly restricted or shut down in-person ethnographic research in 2020, many researchers pivoted to forms of online qualitative research using platforms such as WeChat, Twitter, and Discord. This growing body of qualitative internet research in sociology is often encapsulated under the umbrella term “digital ethnography.” But the question of what makes digital qualitative research ethnographic remains open. In this…
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