Betsy Lucal
Biographic Data
| ID | 261945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betsy Lucal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betsy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucal |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University South Bend |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Food and Inequalities
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Hans O. Mauksch Address: Neoliberalism and Higher Education
This article argues that neoliberalism is a critical public issue influencing the apparently private troubles of college students and teachers. For example, earning a college degree has become ever more important for success; yet, because of declining state support for public education, students are taking on extraordinary levels of debt. As a result, learning is being pushed aside by vocational and other considerations that result from neolibera…
Film Review: The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen Pregnancy and Red Moon: Menstruation, Culture, and the Politics of Gender
Better Informed, Still Skeptical: Response to Machalek and Martin
The Pedagogy of (In)Visibility: Two Accounts of Teaching About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
As teachers who use both our theoretical (academic) and practical (empirical) knowledge to entice our students to peer outside of the seemingly clear-cut boxes of the two-and-only-two dichotomies of sex, gender, and sexuality, we attempt to problematize not only sexuality categories but also gender categories (specifically, the category “woman”). While “coming out” complicates heterosexuality, it does little to question how non-normative sexual i…
Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)Constructing Intersexuality, Transgender and Bisexuality
The process of social differentiation, or the process of creating boxes in which we can place other people and in which we can place ourselves, is key to the existence and persistence of social inequality. The focus of this article is on the construction and maintenance of boxes and boundaries with respect to sex, gender and sexuality. We take the existence of these boxes and boundaries for granted, organizing our lives around them in a variety o…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)Constructing Intersexuality, Transgender and Bisexuality
Author's introduction This article examines the process of social differentiation in the context of sex, gender and sexuality, providing insight into the ways in which all three rely on mutually exclusive and dichotomous categories. Intersexuality, transgender and bisexuality are all exceptions to these boxes and the boundaries around them that can call our categorizations and the decisions we make based upon them into question. Given that social…
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 …
Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective
Faculty Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Knowledge Available/Knowledge Needed
Betsy Lucal, Cheryl Albers, Jeanne Ballantine, Jodi Burmeister-May, Jeffrey Chin, Sharon Dettmer, Sharon Larson, Faculty Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Knowledge Available/Knowledge Needed, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 146-161
Tapping into Parallel Universes: Using Superhero Comic Books in Sociology Courses
that sociology instructors need not follow the traditional teaching model of lecturing to a captive audience. Fiction, film, and music are popular culture media that have been suggested as means for establishing links between sociology and the real world outside our classrooms (Laz 1996; Loewen 1991; Martinez 1995; Pescosolido 1990). Given the visibility of comic book characters in American culture, it is surprising that more sociologists have no…
What It Means to Be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender System
What are the implications of living in a gender system that recognizes 'two and only two' genders? For those individuals whose 'gender displays' are inappropriate, there can be a variety of consequences, many of them negative. In this article, the author provides an analysis of her experiences as a woman whose appearance often leads to gender misattribution. She discusses the consequences of the gender system for her identity and her interactions…
Influence of Perpetrators' Account on Nurses' Recognition and Reporting of Child Abuse
Oppression and Privilege: Toward a Relational Conceptualization of Race
In this paper I bring together this diverse literature into what I call a relational model—one that focuses on both the oppressive and the privileging aspects of race. Using the concepts of white privilege and white supremacy to show how race implicates everyone, this paradigm provides a more realistic account of race and its effects on people's lives. After outlining this model in contrast to the traditional view, I focus on issues involved in t…
The problem with 'battered husbands
The issue of husband battering is among the most controversial topics in the sociological study of family violence. In the years since the first article about battered husbands was published, claims and counterclaims have made for a lively debate. So far, however, battered husbands have not been successfully constructed as a social problem. This article compares the issue of battered husbands and that of battered wives, and shows why the former h…
Class Stratification in Introductory Textbooks: Relational or Distributional Models
Afin d'apprehender quelle representation de la stratification sociale est offerte aux etudiants, l'A. a examine 15 manuels scolaires americains d'introduction a la sociologie. Deux approches peuvent etre distinguees : l'approche distributionnelle, la plus representee, est essentiellement descriptive ; l'approche relationnelle met en lumiere les relations de controle et de subordination, les conflits et les systemes d'oppressions et de privileges.…
Nurses' recognition and reporting of child abuse: A factorial survey
According to interaction ist theory, responses of professionals to potential deviance will vary by characteristics of the event, characteristics of the biography and training of the observer, and characteristics of the organization in which the process occurs. Hypotheses concerning recognition and reporting of child abuse were tested using a factorial survey design. A probability sample of nurses (N = 1,038) judged vignettes, in which case charac…
What It Means to Be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender System
What are the implications of living in a gender system that recognizes 'two and only two' genders? For those individuals whose 'gender displays' are inappropriate, there can be a variety of consequences, many of them negative. In this article, the author provides an analysis of her experiences as a woman whose appearance often leads to gender misattribution. She discusses the consequences of the gender system for her identity and her interactions…
Oppression and Privilege: Toward a Relational Conceptualization of Race
In this paper I bring together this diverse literature into what I call a relational model—one that focuses on both the oppressive and the privileging aspects of race. Using the concepts of white privilege and white supremacy to show how race implicates everyone, this paradigm provides a more realistic account of race and its effects on people's lives. After outlining this model in contrast to the traditional view, I focus on issues involved in t…
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 …
Class Stratification in Introductory Textbooks: Relational or Distributional Models
Afin d'apprehender quelle representation de la stratification sociale est offerte aux etudiants, l'A. a examine 15 manuels scolaires americains d'introduction a la sociologie. Deux approches peuvent etre distinguees : l'approche distributionnelle, la plus representee, est essentiellement descriptive ; l'approche relationnelle met en lumiere les relations de controle et de subordination, les conflits et les systemes d'oppressions et de privileges.…
Tapping into Parallel Universes: Using Superhero Comic Books in Sociology Courses
that sociology instructors need not follow the traditional teaching model of lecturing to a captive audience. Fiction, film, and music are popular culture media that have been suggested as means for establishing links between sociology and the real world outside our classrooms (Laz 1996; Loewen 1991; Martinez 1995; Pescosolido 1990). Given the visibility of comic book characters in American culture, it is surprising that more sociologists have no…
The Pedagogy of (In)Visibility: Two Accounts of Teaching About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
As teachers who use both our theoretical (academic) and practical (empirical) knowledge to entice our students to peer outside of the seemingly clear-cut boxes of the two-and-only-two dichotomies of sex, gender, and sexuality, we attempt to problematize not only sexuality categories but also gender categories (specifically, the category “woman”). While “coming out” complicates heterosexuality, it does little to question how non-normative sexual i…
The problem with 'battered husbands
The issue of husband battering is among the most controversial topics in the sociological study of family violence. In the years since the first article about battered husbands was published, claims and counterclaims have made for a lively debate. So far, however, battered husbands have not been successfully constructed as a social problem. This article compares the issue of battered husbands and that of battered wives, and shows why the former h…
Faculty Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Knowledge Available/Knowledge Needed
Betsy Lucal, Cheryl Albers, Jeanne Ballantine, Jodi Burmeister-May, Jeffrey Chin, Sharon Dettmer, Sharon Larson, Faculty Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Knowledge Available/Knowledge Needed, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 146-161
Nurses' recognition and reporting of child abuse: A factorial survey
According to interaction ist theory, responses of professionals to potential deviance will vary by characteristics of the event, characteristics of the biography and training of the observer, and characteristics of the organization in which the process occurs. Hypotheses concerning recognition and reporting of child abuse were tested using a factorial survey design. A probability sample of nurses (N = 1,038) judged vignettes, in which case charac…
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)Constructing Intersexuality, Transgender and Bisexuality
The process of social differentiation, or the process of creating boxes in which we can place other people and in which we can place ourselves, is key to the existence and persistence of social inequality. The focus of this article is on the construction and maintenance of boxes and boundaries with respect to sex, gender and sexuality. We take the existence of these boxes and boundaries for granted, organizing our lives around them in a variety o…
Better Informed, Still Skeptical: Response to Machalek and Martin
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)Constructing Intersexuality, Transgender and Bisexuality
Author's introduction This article examines the process of social differentiation in the context of sex, gender and sexuality, providing insight into the ways in which all three rely on mutually exclusive and dichotomous categories. Intersexuality, transgender and bisexuality are all exceptions to these boxes and the boundaries around them that can call our categorizations and the decisions we make based upon them into question. Given that social…
Nurses' recognition and reporting of child abuse: A factorial survey
According to interaction ist theory, responses of professionals to potential deviance will vary by characteristics of the event, characteristics of the biography and training of the observer, and characteristics of the organization in which the process occurs. Hypotheses concerning recognition and reporting of child abuse were tested using a factorial survey design. A probability sample of nurses (N = 1,038) judged vignettes, in which case charac…
Class Stratification in Introductory Textbooks: Relational or Distributional Models
Afin d'apprehender quelle representation de la stratification sociale est offerte aux etudiants, l'A. a examine 15 manuels scolaires americains d'introduction a la sociologie. Deux approches peuvent etre distinguees : l'approche distributionnelle, la plus representee, est essentiellement descriptive ; l'approche relationnelle met en lumiere les relations de controle et de subordination, les conflits et les systemes d'oppressions et de privileges.…
The problem with 'battered husbands
The issue of husband battering is among the most controversial topics in the sociological study of family violence. In the years since the first article about battered husbands was published, claims and counterclaims have made for a lively debate. So far, however, battered husbands have not been successfully constructed as a social problem. This article compares the issue of battered husbands and that of battered wives, and shows why the former h…
Oppression and Privilege: Toward a Relational Conceptualization of Race
In this paper I bring together this diverse literature into what I call a relational model—one that focuses on both the oppressive and the privileging aspects of race. Using the concepts of white privilege and white supremacy to show how race implicates everyone, this paradigm provides a more realistic account of race and its effects on people's lives. After outlining this model in contrast to the traditional view, I focus on issues involved in t…
Influence of Perpetrators' Account on Nurses' Recognition and Reporting of Child Abuse
Tapping into Parallel Universes: Using Superhero Comic Books in Sociology Courses
that sociology instructors need not follow the traditional teaching model of lecturing to a captive audience. Fiction, film, and music are popular culture media that have been suggested as means for establishing links between sociology and the real world outside our classrooms (Laz 1996; Loewen 1991; Martinez 1995; Pescosolido 1990). Given the visibility of comic book characters in American culture, it is surprising that more sociologists have no…
What It Means to Be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender System
What are the implications of living in a gender system that recognizes 'two and only two' genders? For those individuals whose 'gender displays' are inappropriate, there can be a variety of consequences, many of them negative. In this article, the author provides an analysis of her experiences as a woman whose appearance often leads to gender misattribution. She discusses the consequences of the gender system for her identity and her interactions…
Faculty Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Knowledge Available/Knowledge Needed
Betsy Lucal, Cheryl Albers, Jeanne Ballantine, Jodi Burmeister-May, Jeffrey Chin, Sharon Dettmer, Sharon Larson, Faculty Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Knowledge Available/Knowledge Needed, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 146-161
Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective
Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)Constructing Intersexuality, Transgender and Bisexuality
The process of social differentiation, or the process of creating boxes in which we can place other people and in which we can place ourselves, is key to the existence and persistence of social inequality. The focus of this article is on the construction and maintenance of boxes and boundaries with respect to sex, gender and sexuality. We take the existence of these boxes and boundaries for granted, organizing our lives around them in a variety o…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Building Boxes and Policing Boundaries: (De)Constructing Intersexuality, Transgender and Bisexuality
Author's introduction This article examines the process of social differentiation in the context of sex, gender and sexuality, providing insight into the ways in which all three rely on mutually exclusive and dichotomous categories. Intersexuality, transgender and bisexuality are all exceptions to these boxes and the boundaries around them that can call our categorizations and the decisions we make based upon them into question. Given that social…
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 …
The Pedagogy of (In)Visibility: Two Accounts of Teaching About Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
As teachers who use both our theoretical (academic) and practical (empirical) knowledge to entice our students to peer outside of the seemingly clear-cut boxes of the two-and-only-two dichotomies of sex, gender, and sexuality, we attempt to problematize not only sexuality categories but also gender categories (specifically, the category “woman”). While “coming out” complicates heterosexuality, it does little to question how non-normative sexual i…
Better Informed, Still Skeptical: Response to Machalek and Martin
Film Review: The Gloucester 18: The Realities of Teen Pregnancy and Red Moon: Menstruation, Culture, and the Politics of Gender
Hans O. Mauksch Address: Neoliberalism and Higher Education
This article argues that neoliberalism is a critical public issue influencing the apparently private troubles of college students and teachers. For example, earning a college degree has become ever more important for success; yet, because of declining state support for public education, students are taking on extraordinary levels of debt. As a result, learning is being pushed aside by vocational and other considerations that result from neolibera…
Food and Inequalities
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works)