Sarah Fenstermaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 250906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Fenstermaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Fenstermaker |
| SIGNATURE | FENSTERMAKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 443 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Forty Years after Brownmiller
Gender, Considered
Behind the Mask
Doing Gender
Candace West and Don Zimmerman introduced the concept “doing gender” in an article of the same name in 1987. They were the first to articulate an ethnomethodological perspective on the creation and affirmation of gender inequality between males and females in Western society. West and Zimmerman asserted that sex is founded on the socially agreed upon biological criteria for initial assignment to a sex category, but that classification typically h…
Forty Years after Brownmiller
The Turn from 'What' to 'How
John Heritage described Harold Garfinkel's central question as 'how do social actors come to know, and know in common what they are doing and the circumstances in which they are doing it.' The case of Agnes illuminates the methods by which members produce intelligible actions and recognizable-even 'natural'-gender orderliness. With this central interest as a starting point, this article offers some observations about transgender women in prison a…
Agnes Goes to Prison
Historically developed along gender lines and arguably the most sex segregated of institutions, U.S. prisons are organized around the assumption of a gender binary. In this context, the existence and increasing visibility of transgender prisoners raise questions about how gender is accomplished by transgender prisoners in prisons for men. This analysis draws on official data and original interview data from 315 transgender inmates in 27 Californi…
Doing Gender, Doing Difference
For the first time the anthologized works of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to scholars in social science
Dividing the Domestic
Beyond the Everyday
Doing Gender
Candace West and Don Zimmerman introduced the concept “doing gender” in an article of the same title in 1987. They were the first to articulate an ethnomethodological perspective on the creation and affirmation of gender inequality between males and females in western society. The purview of ethnomethodology includes the study of the socially managed accomplishments of all aspects of life that are treated as objective, unchanging, and transsituat…
Accountability in action
In this article, we analyze the proceedings of a meeting that terminated affirmative action policies at the University of California. Employin our recent theoretical reformulation of difference as an accomplishment, we explore participants' means of doing gender, race and class in these deliberations. In discussing our findings, we call attention to their relevance for `formal' and critical discourse analysis
An Unconventional Family
Autobiographical Occasions
Reply to Epstein
Doing Difference
In this article, we advance a new understanding of 'difference' as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social…
Feeding the Family
Gender-related differences in spatial abilities
The Rhythm of Everyday Life
Doing Difference
In this article, we advance a new understanding of 'difference' as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social…
Accountability in action
In this article, we analyze the proceedings of a meeting that terminated affirmative action policies at the University of California. Employin our recent theoretical reformulation of difference as an accomplishment, we explore participants' means of doing gender, race and class in these deliberations. In discussing our findings, we call attention to their relevance for `formal' and critical discourse analysis
Agnes Goes to Prison
Historically developed along gender lines and arguably the most sex segregated of institutions, U.S. prisons are organized around the assumption of a gender binary. In this context, the existence and increasing visibility of transgender prisoners raise questions about how gender is accomplished by transgender prisoners in prisons for men. This analysis draws on official data and original interview data from 315 transgender inmates in 27 Californi…
Forty Years after Brownmiller
Autobiographical Occasions
Gender-related differences in spatial abilities
The Turn from 'What' to 'How
John Heritage described Harold Garfinkel's central question as 'how do social actors come to know, and know in common what they are doing and the circumstances in which they are doing it.' The case of Agnes illuminates the methods by which members produce intelligible actions and recognizable-even 'natural'-gender orderliness. With this central interest as a starting point, this article offers some observations about transgender women in prison a…
Behind the Mask
Dividing the Domestic
Doing Gender
Candace West and Don Zimmerman introduced the concept “doing gender” in an article of the same title in 1987. They were the first to articulate an ethnomethodological perspective on the creation and affirmation of gender inequality between males and females in western society. The purview of ethnomethodology includes the study of the socially managed accomplishments of all aspects of life that are treated as objective, unchanging, and transsituat…
Reply to Epstein
The Rhythm of Everyday Life
Gender-related differences in spatial abilities
Feeding the Family
Reply to Epstein
Doing Difference
In this article, we advance a new understanding of 'difference' as an ongoing interactional accomplishment. Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social…
Autobiographical Occasions
An Unconventional Family
Accountability in action
In this article, we analyze the proceedings of a meeting that terminated affirmative action policies at the University of California. Employin our recent theoretical reformulation of difference as an accomplishment, we explore participants' means of doing gender, race and class in these deliberations. In discussing our findings, we call attention to their relevance for `formal' and critical discourse analysis
Doing Gender
Candace West and Don Zimmerman introduced the concept “doing gender” in an article of the same title in 1987. They were the first to articulate an ethnomethodological perspective on the creation and affirmation of gender inequality between males and females in western society. The purview of ethnomethodology includes the study of the socially managed accomplishments of all aspects of life that are treated as objective, unchanging, and transsituat…
Beyond the Everyday
Dividing the Domestic
Doing Gender, Doing Difference
For the first time the anthologized works of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to scholars in social science
Agnes Goes to Prison
Historically developed along gender lines and arguably the most sex segregated of institutions, U.S. prisons are organized around the assumption of a gender binary. In this context, the existence and increasing visibility of transgender prisoners raise questions about how gender is accomplished by transgender prisoners in prisons for men. This analysis draws on official data and original interview data from 315 transgender inmates in 27 Californi…
Forty Years after Brownmiller
The Turn from 'What' to 'How
John Heritage described Harold Garfinkel's central question as 'how do social actors come to know, and know in common what they are doing and the circumstances in which they are doing it.' The case of Agnes illuminates the methods by which members produce intelligible actions and recognizable-even 'natural'-gender orderliness. With this central interest as a starting point, this article offers some observations about transgender women in prison a…
Doing Gender
Candace West and Don Zimmerman introduced the concept “doing gender” in an article of the same name in 1987. They were the first to articulate an ethnomethodological perspective on the creation and affirmation of gender inequality between males and females in Western society. West and Zimmerman asserted that sex is founded on the socially agreed upon biological criteria for initial assignment to a sex category, but that classification typically h…
Behind the Mask
Forty Years after Brownmiller
Gender, Considered
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works)