J A Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 10195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9019-9812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Solving for X: Gender Markers, the Law, and the Administrative State
Not your mother's patriarchy? Reflections on the rise, fall, and unexpected return of a feminist keyword
The 2016 election of Donald Trump to the US presidency breathed new life into a rhetorical relic of the feminist past: the term 'patriarchy.' Still, as relevant as the concept of patriarchy remains, the revival of this onetime radical feminist rallying cry hardly was foretold. Radical feminism has not fared well in the popular imagination, indelibly linked (among conservatives) to man-hating, and (among progressives) to transexclusionary politics…
Too 'Full of Gender' How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents
The social movements literature identifies a dilemma that activists face between principles of affirming and deconstructing identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 85 activists from diverse political perspectives, this article shows that, in discussing identity documents (IDs), progressive activists took a practical approach that recognized both the advantages and drawbacks of recognition. They expressed support both for initiatives that wo…
A Little Word That Means A Lot: A Reassessment of Singular They in a New Era of Gender Politics
Singular they has emerged as a key term in contemporary gender politics, reflecting growing usage of they/them as nonbinary personal pronouns. Drawing on interviews with 54 progressive gender activists, we consider how singular they can be used to resist and redo aspects of the prevailing gender structure. We identify three distinct usages of singular they: (1) as a nonbinary personal pronoun, (2) as a universal gender-neutral pronoun, and (3) as…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
Reassessing Gender Neutrality
Since the 1970s, advocates have used the term gender neutral to press for legal change in contexts ranging from employment discrimination to marriage equality to public restroom access. Drawing on analyses of all Supreme Court cases, federal courts of appeals cases, and Supreme Court amicus briefs in which the terms gender neutral/neutrality, sex neutral/neutrality, or sexually neutral/sexual neutrality appear, this study examines how US courts h…
Reimagining Gender: Gender Neutrality in the News
Since the 1970s, the term gender neutral has risen to prominence in debates over issues ranging from pronouns to parenting to public restrooms. To advance understanding of this key term in recent gender politics, we conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of almost one thousand articles from four major newspapers—over a forty-year period—that mention the term gender neutral. The term arises in news articles discussing gender equality betwee…
Sex scandals, reputational management, and masculinity under neoliberal conditions
This article presents political sex scandals as a critical site for understanding contemporary formations of masculinity under conditions of neoliberalism. While media coverage of sex scandals typically revolves around a spectacularized failure of a particular man to live up to an idealized image of masculinity, we contend that sex scandals represent momentary ruptures that lay bare historically specific contradictions of neoliberal masculine sub…
“Same DNA, but Born this Way”: Lady Gaga and the Possibilities of Postessentialist Feminisms: Same DNA, but Born this Way
Since bursting on the scene in 2008 with her first studio album, The Fame, Lady Gaga has enjoyed the devotion of an unusually dedicated cadre of fans, affectionately dubbed her "little monsters."Lady Gaga also has attracted the attention of scholars, leading to numerous tongue-in-cheek media reports documenting the rise of Gaga Studies as a field of academic inquiry (Corona, 2010;Eby, 2010). 1 Required reading now includes J. Jack Halberstam's re…
Unholy Matrimony? Feminism, Orientalism, and the Possibility of Double Critique
On the Popular Vote
Effects of priming thoughts about control on anxiety and food intake as moderated by dietary restraint
On the Popular Vote
Over the past few years, voting has become a central dramatic element on a variety of shows in the highly successful reality TV genre. Treating the “voting drama” as a shadow realm to the political, one in which anxieties and tensions produced by the practice of democracy are given free play, this essay offers a critical consideration of some of the hidden aspects of the cultural and social significance of political voting
The Personal is Political: Thinking Through the Clinton/Lewinsky/Starr Affair
The Clinton/Lewinsky/Starr affair unearthed a fault line in contemporary feminist theory, an unresolved tension between two governing ideals: “the personal is political” and the right to privacy. Since the early 1970s, both of these slogans have figured prominently in feminist scholarship and feminist politics. But as the Clinton sex scandal dragged on, many began to question the merits of politicizing personal matters such as intimate relationsh…
The Delegation Dilemma: Negotiated Rulemaking in Perspective
Pre-Contact Tuberculosis in a Plains Woodland Mortuary
(1986). Pre-Contact Tuberculosis in a Plains Woodland Mortuary. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 31, No. 113, pp. 249-252
Agriculture in Ireland: A Census Atlas
On Canine Socket Breadth and Canine Crown Breadth
Regional Differences in Authoritarianism
Journal Article Regional Differences in Authoritarianism Get access J. Allen Williams, Jr. J. Allen Williams, Jr. The University of Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 45, Issue 2, December 1966, Pages 273–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2574398 Published: 01 December 1966
Negro College Students' Participation in Sit-Ins
Socioeconomic and legal changes in the position of southern Negroes have been accompanied by a changing pattern of race relations and a new attitude on the part of Negro leaders. Data from a closed-answer questionnaire administered to students in three Negro colleges in North Carolina support the hypothesis that sit-in protests are less indicative of social alienation among Negroes than of their identification with or positive reference to the wh…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
A Little Word That Means A Lot: A Reassessment of Singular They in a New Era of Gender Politics
Singular they has emerged as a key term in contemporary gender politics, reflecting growing usage of they/them as nonbinary personal pronouns. Drawing on interviews with 54 progressive gender activists, we consider how singular they can be used to resist and redo aspects of the prevailing gender structure. We identify three distinct usages of singular they: (1) as a nonbinary personal pronoun, (2) as a universal gender-neutral pronoun, and (3) as…
Effects of priming thoughts about control on anxiety and food intake as moderated by dietary restraint
Reassessing Gender Neutrality
Since the 1970s, advocates have used the term gender neutral to press for legal change in contexts ranging from employment discrimination to marriage equality to public restroom access. Drawing on analyses of all Supreme Court cases, federal courts of appeals cases, and Supreme Court amicus briefs in which the terms gender neutral/neutrality, sex neutral/neutrality, or sexually neutral/sexual neutrality appear, this study examines how US courts h…
Unholy Matrimony? Feminism, Orientalism, and the Possibility of Double Critique
Pre-Contact Tuberculosis in a Plains Woodland Mortuary
(1986). Pre-Contact Tuberculosis in a Plains Woodland Mortuary. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 31, No. 113, pp. 249-252
Agriculture in Ireland: A Census Atlas
On the Popular Vote
Over the past few years, voting has become a central dramatic element on a variety of shows in the highly successful reality TV genre. Treating the “voting drama” as a shadow realm to the political, one in which anxieties and tensions produced by the practice of democracy are given free play, this essay offers a critical consideration of some of the hidden aspects of the cultural and social significance of political voting
The Personal is Political: Thinking Through the Clinton/Lewinsky/Starr Affair
The Clinton/Lewinsky/Starr affair unearthed a fault line in contemporary feminist theory, an unresolved tension between two governing ideals: “the personal is political” and the right to privacy. Since the early 1970s, both of these slogans have figured prominently in feminist scholarship and feminist politics. But as the Clinton sex scandal dragged on, many began to question the merits of politicizing personal matters such as intimate relationsh…
The Delegation Dilemma: Negotiated Rulemaking in Perspective
Negro College Students' Participation in Sit-Ins
Socioeconomic and legal changes in the position of southern Negroes have been accompanied by a changing pattern of race relations and a new attitude on the part of Negro leaders. Data from a closed-answer questionnaire administered to students in three Negro colleges in North Carolina support the hypothesis that sit-in protests are less indicative of social alienation among Negroes than of their identification with or positive reference to the wh…
Regional Differences in Authoritarianism
Journal Article Regional Differences in Authoritarianism Get access J. Allen Williams, Jr. J. Allen Williams, Jr. The University of Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 45, Issue 2, December 1966, Pages 273–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2574398 Published: 01 December 1966
On Canine Socket Breadth and Canine Crown Breadth
Agriculture in Ireland: A Census Atlas
Pre-Contact Tuberculosis in a Plains Woodland Mortuary
(1986). Pre-Contact Tuberculosis in a Plains Woodland Mortuary. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 31, No. 113, pp. 249-252
The Delegation Dilemma: Negotiated Rulemaking in Perspective
The Personal is Political: Thinking Through the Clinton/Lewinsky/Starr Affair
The Clinton/Lewinsky/Starr affair unearthed a fault line in contemporary feminist theory, an unresolved tension between two governing ideals: “the personal is political” and the right to privacy. Since the early 1970s, both of these slogans have figured prominently in feminist scholarship and feminist politics. But as the Clinton sex scandal dragged on, many began to question the merits of politicizing personal matters such as intimate relationsh…
On the Popular Vote
Effects of priming thoughts about control on anxiety and food intake as moderated by dietary restraint
On the Popular Vote
Over the past few years, voting has become a central dramatic element on a variety of shows in the highly successful reality TV genre. Treating the “voting drama” as a shadow realm to the political, one in which anxieties and tensions produced by the practice of democracy are given free play, this essay offers a critical consideration of some of the hidden aspects of the cultural and social significance of political voting
Unholy Matrimony? Feminism, Orientalism, and the Possibility of Double Critique
“Same DNA, but Born this Way”: Lady Gaga and the Possibilities of Postessentialist Feminisms: Same DNA, but Born this Way
Since bursting on the scene in 2008 with her first studio album, The Fame, Lady Gaga has enjoyed the devotion of an unusually dedicated cadre of fans, affectionately dubbed her "little monsters."Lady Gaga also has attracted the attention of scholars, leading to numerous tongue-in-cheek media reports documenting the rise of Gaga Studies as a field of academic inquiry (Corona, 2010;Eby, 2010). 1 Required reading now includes J. Jack Halberstam's re…
Sex scandals, reputational management, and masculinity under neoliberal conditions
This article presents political sex scandals as a critical site for understanding contemporary formations of masculinity under conditions of neoliberalism. While media coverage of sex scandals typically revolves around a spectacularized failure of a particular man to live up to an idealized image of masculinity, we contend that sex scandals represent momentary ruptures that lay bare historically specific contradictions of neoliberal masculine sub…
Reimagining Gender: Gender Neutrality in the News
Since the 1970s, the term gender neutral has risen to prominence in debates over issues ranging from pronouns to parenting to public restrooms. To advance understanding of this key term in recent gender politics, we conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of almost one thousand articles from four major newspapers—over a forty-year period—that mention the term gender neutral. The term arises in news articles discussing gender equality betwee…
Reassessing Gender Neutrality
Since the 1970s, advocates have used the term gender neutral to press for legal change in contexts ranging from employment discrimination to marriage equality to public restroom access. Drawing on analyses of all Supreme Court cases, federal courts of appeals cases, and Supreme Court amicus briefs in which the terms gender neutral/neutrality, sex neutral/neutrality, or sexually neutral/sexual neutrality appear, this study examines how US courts h…
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked ser…
A Little Word That Means A Lot: A Reassessment of Singular They in a New Era of Gender Politics
Singular they has emerged as a key term in contemporary gender politics, reflecting growing usage of they/them as nonbinary personal pronouns. Drawing on interviews with 54 progressive gender activists, we consider how singular they can be used to resist and redo aspects of the prevailing gender structure. We identify three distinct usages of singular they: (1) as a nonbinary personal pronoun, (2) as a universal gender-neutral pronoun, and (3) as…
Too 'Full of Gender' How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents
The social movements literature identifies a dilemma that activists face between principles of affirming and deconstructing identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 85 activists from diverse political perspectives, this article shows that, in discussing identity documents (IDs), progressive activists took a practical approach that recognized both the advantages and drawbacks of recognition. They expressed support both for initiatives that wo…
Not your mother's patriarchy? Reflections on the rise, fall, and unexpected return of a feminist keyword
The 2016 election of Donald Trump to the US presidency breathed new life into a rhetorical relic of the feminist past: the term 'patriarchy.' Still, as relevant as the concept of patriarchy remains, the revival of this onetime radical feminist rallying cry hardly was foretold. Radical feminism has not fared well in the popular imagination, indelibly linked (among conservatives) to man-hating, and (among progressives) to transexclusionary politics…
Solving for X: Gender Markers, the Law, and the Administrative State
Sociology (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works)