Sally L Kitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 245442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally L Kitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitch |
| SIGNATURE | KITCH S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8756-5810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reproductive Rights and Ecofeminism
The U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs decision in June 2022 came as a shock. Yet, upon reflection, the decision simply reinforced what history has shown: women’s rights and opportunities have always been subject to controls, fluctuations, and specious rationales. Dobbs is one in a long line of legal edicts in the U.S. and elsewhere that either allow or curtail and control female agency, including reproductive agency. The d…
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women's Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019
“Forged in Fire” analyzes data about knowledge production in the field of women’s studies over more than four decades. Focusing on key interdisciplinary journals and NWSA presentations over that period, the essay reveals that the experience- and identity-based knowledge produced by scholars helped to define the field’s commitment to social engagement. The data also reveal changes in the focus of knowledge production in more recent years, as the d…
Gendered and Racial Injustices in American Food Systems and Cultures
Multiple factors create food injustices in the United States. They occur in different societal sectors and traverse multiple scales, from the constrained choices of the industrialized food system to legal and corporate structures that replicate entrenched racial and gender inequalities, to cultural expectations around food preparation and consumption. Such injustices further harm already disadvantaged groups, especially women and racial minoritie…
Cautionary Notes on Sustainability Principles
Cautionary Notes on Sustainability Principles Sally L. Kitch (bio) The large auditorium was packed when Vandana Shiva visited Arizona State University (ASU) in the fall of 2014 as the public guest speaker for the HfE North American Observatory's third workshop, Transdisciplinary Imagination(s) for the Anthropocene: Dinner 2040. Shiva is among many activists and theorists who have reached broad general consensus that global society should strive f…
Experimental Humanities and Humanities for the Environment
Experimental Humanities and Humanities for the Environment Sally L. Kitch (bio) Humanities and arts disciplines are undergoing an important transition in this century, as artists and humanists from many fields increasingly engage with the grand social and cultural challenges of our time. Many of these challenges are complex and intractable "wicked problems," with deeply human roots, multiple causes, no single solution, and the ongoing complicity …
How Can Humanities Interventions Promote Progress in the Environmental Sciences
Environmental humanists make compelling arguments about the importance of the environmental humanities (EH) for discovering new ways to conceptualize and address the urgent challenges of the environmental crisis now confronting the planet. Many environmental scientists in a variety of fields are also committed to incorporating socio-cultural analyses in their work. Despite such intentions and rhetoric, however, and some humanists’ eagerness to in…
Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action
Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…
Analyzing Women's Studies Dissertations: Methodologies, Epistemologies, and Field Formation
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…
Afghan Women Leaders Speak: An Academic Activist Conference, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, November 17?19, 2005
Afghan women activists emphasize that the first and continuing need in Afghanistan is physical security, which will enable developments in education, health care, and women's fuller social and political participation. Recent legal and electoral reform from above does not yet substantially affect grassroots gender inequality, severe poverty, and lack of infrastructural development. Real reform will require long-term, culturally sensitive collabora…
Appropriating women's agendas*w
Claiming Success: From Adversity to Responsibility in Women's Studies
Despite the many obstacles women's studies programs and faculty have encountered during the past 25 years, it is time to consider Women's Studies in higher education a success. The point of claiming success is not merely to celebrate Women's Studies but, rather, to take responsibility for the maturity of the field, recognize challenges obscured by an adversity mindset, and articulate the field's contributions to knowledge, as well as its weakness…
Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence
This work is a cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as: Kenyan villagers; US prisoners; Mazatec shamans; Buddhist nuns and monks; Shaker Church members; and anorexic women. The examples of celibacy described illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context. Ideas about the body, gender, family, work, religion, health,…
Disciplined by Disciplines? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Research Mission in Women's Studies
Judith A. Allen, Sally L. Kitch, Disciplined by Disciplines? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Research Mission in Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, Disciplining Feminism? The Future of Women's Studies (Summer, 1998), pp. 275-299
This Strange Society of Women: Reading the Letters and Lives of the Woman's Commonwealth
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History
Sociology
Sociology
"As a Sign That All May Understand": Shaker Gift Drawings and Female Spiritual Power
Gender and language: Dialect, silence and the disruption of discourse
(1987). Gender and language: Dialect, silence and the disruption of discourse. Women's Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 65-78
Disciplined by Disciplines? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Research Mission in Women's Studies
Judith A. Allen, Sally L. Kitch, Disciplined by Disciplines? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Research Mission in Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, Disciplining Feminism? The Future of Women's Studies (Summer, 1998), pp. 275-299
Analyzing Women's Studies Dissertations: Methodologies, Epistemologies, and Field Formation
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…
Gender and language: Dialect, silence and the disruption of discourse
(1987). Gender and language: Dialect, silence and the disruption of discourse. Women's Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 65-78
"As a Sign That All May Understand": Shaker Gift Drawings and Female Spiritual Power
Sociology
Sociology
Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
This Strange Society of Women: Reading the Letters and Lives of the Woman's Commonwealth
Disciplined by Disciplines? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Research Mission in Women's Studies
Judith A. Allen, Sally L. Kitch, Disciplined by Disciplines? The Need for an Interdisciplinary Research Mission in Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, Disciplining Feminism? The Future of Women's Studies (Summer, 1998), pp. 275-299
Claiming Success: From Adversity to Responsibility in Women's Studies
Despite the many obstacles women's studies programs and faculty have encountered during the past 25 years, it is time to consider Women's Studies in higher education a success. The point of claiming success is not merely to celebrate Women's Studies but, rather, to take responsibility for the maturity of the field, recognize challenges obscured by an adversity mindset, and articulate the field's contributions to knowledge, as well as its weakness…
Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence
This work is a cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as: Kenyan villagers; US prisoners; Mazatec shamans; Buddhist nuns and monks; Shaker Church members; and anorexic women. The examples of celibacy described illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context. Ideas about the body, gender, family, work, religion, health,…
Appropriating women's agendas*w
Afghan Women Leaders Speak: An Academic Activist Conference, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, November 17?19, 2005
Afghan women activists emphasize that the first and continuing need in Afghanistan is physical security, which will enable developments in education, health care, and women's fuller social and political participation. Recent legal and electoral reform from above does not yet substantially affect grassroots gender inequality, severe poverty, and lack of infrastructural development. Real reform will require long-term, culturally sensitive collabora…
Analyzing Women's Studies Dissertations: Methodologies, Epistemologies, and Field Formation
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…
Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action
Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…
How Can Humanities Interventions Promote Progress in the Environmental Sciences
Environmental humanists make compelling arguments about the importance of the environmental humanities (EH) for discovering new ways to conceptualize and address the urgent challenges of the environmental crisis now confronting the planet. Many environmental scientists in a variety of fields are also committed to incorporating socio-cultural analyses in their work. Despite such intentions and rhetoric, however, and some humanists’ eagerness to in…
Cautionary Notes on Sustainability Principles
Cautionary Notes on Sustainability Principles Sally L. Kitch (bio) The large auditorium was packed when Vandana Shiva visited Arizona State University (ASU) in the fall of 2014 as the public guest speaker for the HfE North American Observatory's third workshop, Transdisciplinary Imagination(s) for the Anthropocene: Dinner 2040. Shiva is among many activists and theorists who have reached broad general consensus that global society should strive f…
Experimental Humanities and Humanities for the Environment
Experimental Humanities and Humanities for the Environment Sally L. Kitch (bio) Humanities and arts disciplines are undergoing an important transition in this century, as artists and humanists from many fields increasingly engage with the grand social and cultural challenges of our time. Many of these challenges are complex and intractable "wicked problems," with deeply human roots, multiple causes, no single solution, and the ongoing complicity …
Gendered and Racial Injustices in American Food Systems and Cultures
Multiple factors create food injustices in the United States. They occur in different societal sectors and traverse multiple scales, from the constrained choices of the industrialized food system to legal and corporate structures that replicate entrenched racial and gender inequalities, to cultural expectations around food preparation and consumption. Such injustices further harm already disadvantaged groups, especially women and racial minoritie…
Reproductive Rights and Ecofeminism
The U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs decision in June 2022 came as a shock. Yet, upon reflection, the decision simply reinforced what history has shown: women’s rights and opportunities have always been subject to controls, fluctuations, and specious rationales. Dobbs is one in a long line of legal edicts in the U.S. and elsewhere that either allow or curtail and control female agency, including reproductive agency. The d…
Forged in Fire: Constructing Women's Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019
“Forged in Fire” analyzes data about knowledge production in the field of women’s studies over more than four decades. Focusing on key interdisciplinary journals and NWSA presentations over that period, the essay reveals that the experience- and identity-based knowledge produced by scholars helped to define the field’s commitment to social engagement. The data also reveal changes in the focus of knowledge production in more recent years, as the d…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)