Mary Margaret Fonow
Biographic Data
| ID | 140788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Margaret Fonow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Fonow |
| SIGNATURE | FONOW M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Queer Activism Is Changing the Labor Movement
Black Firefighters and the FDNY
Activism is not for the faint of heart. Even if you do not need convincing, read David Goldberg’s meticulously researched case history of the Vulcan Society, a social-movement organization created to advance racial justice for New York City’s black firefighters. He richly documents this century-long struggle with interviews, stunning photographs, archival records, legal documents, personal memoirs, union records, and newspaper accounts. Closing t…
Queering Labor
Analyzing Women's Studies Dissertations
This study presents an in-depth analysis of women’s studies doctoral dissertations produced in the United States between 1995 and 2008. We identified 117 total dissertations and coded their topics, themes, and methodologies. We found eight dominant dissertation topics: identity/subjectivity, gender norms, resistance/activism/power, cultural texts, nationalism/citizenship, harassment/violence/victimization/trauma, race, and sexuality. While humani…
An Australian Feminist Twist on Transnational Labor Activism
Daughters of the Mountain
Union Women
Feminist Methodology
Subtle Sexism
Protest Engendered
This article examines the participation of women in the 1985 labor strike at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. The author views the strike as a deeply gendered act of protest where the issues, strategies, tactics, and resources used by women workers differ from those used by men, and simultaneously, as the occupational site that provided workers an opportunity to affirm, to modify, and to contest their understandings of gender. Paradoxically, women both…
Beyond Methodology
1. Back to the Future: A Look at the Second Wave of Feminist Epistemology and Methodology Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith A. Cook 2. The Man of Professional Wisdom Kathryn Pyne Addelson 3. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins 4. WomenOs Research or Feminist Research? The Debate Surrounding Feminist Science and Methodology Maria Mies 5. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods …
Feminist Rape Education
The purpose of this research report is twofold: First, we analyze a complex of attitudes about rape myths, adversarial sexual beliefs, and gender-role conservatism; and second, we evaluate the impact of rape-education intervention strategies on American college students' attitudes. Using the Solomon four-group design, we randomly assigned 14 classes of Sociology 101 students ( total N = 582) to three different treatment conditions: a live rape-ed…
Feminist Politics and Human Nature . Alison Jaggar Marxism and the Oppression of Women
Knowledge and Women's Interests
This analysis focuses on feminist methodology in the field of sociology by surveying the techniques used in recent research concerning gender-related topics as well as feminist analyses of epistemological assumptions underlying the conduct of inquiry. In addition to the critique and reformulation of standard research practice, feminist methodology involves the development of innovative methodological approaches, including visual techniques, conve…
From Gender Seminar to Gender Community
of sociologists who share a commitment to the development of gender as a specialty in sociology and a commitment to the enhancement of seminar members'professional and personal lives. This transformation was guided by three principles offeminist pedagogy. First, personal issues were viewed as structurally induced and socially patterned and, therefore, as legitimate sources of sociological insight. Second, revisionism in theory and method was seen…
Am I my Sister's Gatekeeper? Cautionary Tales from the Academic Hierarchy
Children of Working Parents
Children and Race
Community Organizations and Networking
Organizations with common goals "network," exchange aid and resources, to gain effectiveness
Women for Hire
Knowledge and Women's Interests
This analysis focuses on feminist methodology in the field of sociology by surveying the techniques used in recent research concerning gender-related topics as well as feminist analyses of epistemological assumptions underlying the conduct of inquiry. In addition to the critique and reformulation of standard research practice, feminist methodology involves the development of innovative methodological approaches, including visual techniques, conve…
Feminist Methodology
Protest Engendered
This article examines the participation of women in the 1985 labor strike at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. The author views the strike as a deeply gendered act of protest where the issues, strategies, tactics, and resources used by women workers differ from those used by men, and simultaneously, as the occupational site that provided workers an opportunity to affirm, to modify, and to contest their understandings of gender. Paradoxically, women both…
Feminist Rape Education
The purpose of this research report is twofold: First, we analyze a complex of attitudes about rape myths, adversarial sexual beliefs, and gender-role conservatism; and second, we evaluate the impact of rape-education intervention strategies on American college students' attitudes. Using the Solomon four-group design, we randomly assigned 14 classes of Sociology 101 students ( total N = 582) to three different treatment conditions: a live rape-ed…
Analyzing Women's Studies Dissertations
This study presents an in-depth analysis of women’s studies doctoral dissertations produced in the United States between 1995 and 2008. We identified 117 total dissertations and coded their topics, themes, and methodologies. We found eight dominant dissertation topics: identity/subjectivity, gender norms, resistance/activism/power, cultural texts, nationalism/citizenship, harassment/violence/victimization/trauma, race, and sexuality. While humani…
Daughters of the Mountain
From Gender Seminar to Gender Community
of sociologists who share a commitment to the development of gender as a specialty in sociology and a commitment to the enhancement of seminar members'professional and personal lives. This transformation was guided by three principles offeminist pedagogy. First, personal issues were viewed as structurally induced and socially patterned and, therefore, as legitimate sources of sociological insight. Second, revisionism in theory and method was seen…
Am I my Sister's Gatekeeper? Cautionary Tales from the Academic Hierarchy
Queering Labor
Community Organizations and Networking
Organizations with common goals "network," exchange aid and resources, to gain effectiveness
Women for Hire
Am I my Sister's Gatekeeper? Cautionary Tales from the Academic Hierarchy
Children of Working Parents
Children and Race
Community Organizations and Networking
Organizations with common goals "network," exchange aid and resources, to gain effectiveness
From Gender Seminar to Gender Community
of sociologists who share a commitment to the development of gender as a specialty in sociology and a commitment to the enhancement of seminar members'professional and personal lives. This transformation was guided by three principles offeminist pedagogy. First, personal issues were viewed as structurally induced and socially patterned and, therefore, as legitimate sources of sociological insight. Second, revisionism in theory and method was seen…
Knowledge and Women's Interests
This analysis focuses on feminist methodology in the field of sociology by surveying the techniques used in recent research concerning gender-related topics as well as feminist analyses of epistemological assumptions underlying the conduct of inquiry. In addition to the critique and reformulation of standard research practice, feminist methodology involves the development of innovative methodological approaches, including visual techniques, conve…
Feminist Politics and Human Nature . Alison Jaggar Marxism and the Oppression of Women
Beyond Methodology
1. Back to the Future: A Look at the Second Wave of Feminist Epistemology and Methodology Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith A. Cook 2. The Man of Professional Wisdom Kathryn Pyne Addelson 3. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins 4. WomenOs Research or Feminist Research? The Debate Surrounding Feminist Science and Methodology Maria Mies 5. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods …
Feminist Rape Education
The purpose of this research report is twofold: First, we analyze a complex of attitudes about rape myths, adversarial sexual beliefs, and gender-role conservatism; and second, we evaluate the impact of rape-education intervention strategies on American college students' attitudes. Using the Solomon four-group design, we randomly assigned 14 classes of Sociology 101 students ( total N = 582) to three different treatment conditions: a live rape-ed…
Subtle Sexism
Protest Engendered
This article examines the participation of women in the 1985 labor strike at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel. The author views the strike as a deeply gendered act of protest where the issues, strategies, tactics, and resources used by women workers differ from those used by men, and simultaneously, as the occupational site that provided workers an opportunity to affirm, to modify, and to contest their understandings of gender. Paradoxically, women both…
Feminist Methodology
Union Women
Daughters of the Mountain
An Australian Feminist Twist on Transnational Labor Activism
Analyzing Women's Studies Dissertations
This study presents an in-depth analysis of women’s studies doctoral dissertations produced in the United States between 1995 and 2008. We identified 117 total dissertations and coded their topics, themes, and methodologies. We found eight dominant dissertation topics: identity/subjectivity, gender norms, resistance/activism/power, cultural texts, nationalism/citizenship, harassment/violence/victimization/trauma, race, and sexuality. While humani…
Queering Labor
Black Firefighters and the FDNY
Activism is not for the faint of heart. Even if you do not need convincing, read David Goldberg’s meticulously researched case history of the Vulcan Society, a social-movement organization created to advance racial justice for New York City’s black firefighters. He richly documents this century-long struggle with interviews, stunning photographs, archival records, legal documents, personal memoirs, union records, and newspaper accounts. Closing t…
How Queer Activism Is Changing the Labor Movement
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (7 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Feminism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works)