Jane Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The New Witch studies: A discussion
Below, the Journal of Gender Studies editor, Feona Attwood chairs a roundtable discussion of the book with Soma Chaudhuri, Emma Quilty and Jane Ward about their books The Witch Studies Reader (Chau
Characterising public opinion for food-based fiscal policies in the UK
Various fiscal policies have been proposed to incentivise healthy and sustainable diets, with differing proposed attributes and levels. Public support can influence the ability for such policies to be implemented but is currently poorly understood, so two discrete choice experiments (DCEs) were used to measure such preferences among 2,020 adults in the UK. The attributes and levels for 192 policy options were identified using a scoping review tha…
Witch hunts everywhere: A feminist re-mapping of misogyny and contemporary anti-witch violence
The time for witch studies is now. This special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies arrives at a historical juncture in which the figure of the witch, whether invoked in literal accusations lead...
The Witch Studies Reader
Witch Studies Reader
Public support for food subsidy and tax scenarios to promote healthy and sustainable diets: Evidence from deliberative forums in two UK locations
Development of a decision‐support framework to support professionals and promote comfort among older hospital inpatients living with dementia
BACKGROUND: Acute hospital wards can be difficult places for many people living with dementia. Promoting comfort and wellbeing can be challenging in this environment. There is little evidence-based support for professionals working on acute care wards on how to respond to distress and maximise comfort and wellbeing among patients living with dementia. OBJECTIVES: Our overall aim was to codesign an evidence-based easy-to-use heuristic decision-sup…
Co‐Designing a Palliative Dementia Care Framework to Support Holistic Assessment and Decision Making: The Embed‐Care Framework
BACKGROUND: People with dementia have complex palliative care needs that are often unmet, including physical and psycho-social needs. It is essential to empower people with dementia, family carers and professionals to better assess and manage care needs. We aimed to co-design a palliative dementia care Framework delivered through a digital app to support holistic assessment and decision making for care in the community and care homes-the EMBED-Ca…
The Revolution Will Not Be Exhausted
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power…
Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work
What counts as sex work, and what is at stake when we narrow or broaden its boundaries? Drawing on interviews with intimacy coordinators, television screenwriters, directors, and actors, this article takes television sex scenes and their contested meaning as a point of departure for engaging with current feminist debates regarding definitions of sex work. Current transformations in how TV sex scenes are being reconceptualized by women inside the …
A decision aid to support family carers of people living with dementia towards the end‐of‐life: Coproduction process, outcome and reflections
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight- -her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple’s therapy in a search for happiness. In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality , Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in…
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple’s therapy in a sea…
Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It
This essay examines critical responses to the author’s 2015 book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men , with a focus on claims about the illegitimacy of queer and feminist methods. Positing Not Gay as evidence of the proliferation of elitist pseudoscience at odds with the lived experiences of the gay general public, critics of Not Gay depicted a significant divide between “average gay men” and “Queer Theorists,” the latter of whom they named a…
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: there’s fraternity and military hazing ritu…
Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in Queer Utopia
Contemporary parenthood is a condition bound up with heteronormative futurity. The child symbolizes the future itself, with its ostensibly limitless and unknowable possibilities. The child’s future can go “either way,” good or bad, normal or queer, gratifying or terrifying. Following in the traditions of their time and place, parents set the stage for a future they hope will be healthy and prosperous, offering them a return on their investment. A…
From 'Black people are not a homosexual act' to 'gay is the new Black: Mapping white uses of Blackness in modern gay rights campaigns in the United States
This paper examines the ways in which rhetorics of Blackness and civil rights have been deployed by Whites positioned on both sides of modern gay rights discourse in the United States. The authors argue that the contemporary deployment of Blackness by both gay and anti-gay movements concurrently is linked to the longstanding use of race on both sides of anti-gay referendum and initiative campaigns since the late 1970s, as well as to the even long…
Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression
This article takes femme/FTM sexual relationships as a point of departure to consider gender itself as a form of labor, or to illustrate how gender subjectivities are constituted by various labors required of, and provided by, intimate others. Analysis focuses on the work that women do in relationships with transgendered men, specifically the work that they do to validate and celebrate their partners’ masculinity. ‘Gender labor’ extends beyond th…
The Reaches of Heteronormativity: An Introduction
Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations
Dude-Sex: White Masculinities and `Authentic' Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex With Dudes
Based on examination of an online community in which white `str8'-identified men assert that sex with other white men bolsters their heterosexual masculinity, this article examines the heterosexual and racialized meanings that white str8 dudes attach to their same-sex behaviors. The study points to the role of whiteness in the process of establishing heterosexual `realness', or believable straight culture. Findings indicate that for the white str…
White Normativity: The Cultural Dimensions of Whiteness in a Racially Diverse LGBT Organization
This article builds on examinations of whiteness in organizations by considering how white normativity-or the often unconscious and invisible ideas and practices that make whiteness appear natural and right-is sustained even in organizations that are attentive to structural factors. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article critically examines the racial identity and culture of the Center, a Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, an…
Not all Differences are Created Equal: Multiple Jeopardy in a Gendered Organization
The dictate in feminist intersectional theory to not 'count oppressions' is difficult to reconcile with the experience of many lesbians of color that 'not all differences are created equal' inside social movement organizations. Meso-level factors, such as organizational structure and sociopolitical environment, may result in the perception of individuals or groups that one form of structural inequality is more oppressive than others. The author f…
The Reaches of Heteronormativity: An Introduction
White Normativity: The Cultural Dimensions of Whiteness in a Racially Diverse LGBT Organization
This article builds on examinations of whiteness in organizations by considering how white normativity-or the often unconscious and invisible ideas and practices that make whiteness appear natural and right-is sustained even in organizations that are attentive to structural factors. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article critically examines the racial identity and culture of the Center, a Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, an…
Not all Differences are Created Equal: Multiple Jeopardy in a Gendered Organization
The dictate in feminist intersectional theory to not 'count oppressions' is difficult to reconcile with the experience of many lesbians of color that 'not all differences are created equal' inside social movement organizations. Meso-level factors, such as organizational structure and sociopolitical environment, may result in the perception of individuals or groups that one form of structural inequality is more oppressive than others. The author f…
A New Kind of Aids: Adapting to the Success of Protease Inhibitors in an Aids Care Organization
Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It
This essay examines critical responses to the author’s 2015 book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men , with a focus on claims about the illegitimacy of queer and feminist methods. Positing Not Gay as evidence of the proliferation of elitist pseudoscience at odds with the lived experiences of the gay general public, critics of Not Gay depicted a significant divide between “average gay men” and “Queer Theorists,” the latter of whom they named a…
The Revolution Will Not Be Exhausted
Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work
What counts as sex work, and what is at stake when we narrow or broaden its boundaries? Drawing on interviews with intimacy coordinators, television screenwriters, directors, and actors, this article takes television sex scenes and their contested meaning as a point of departure for engaging with current feminist debates regarding definitions of sex work. Current transformations in how TV sex scenes are being reconceptualized by women inside the …
Existence, Transcendence and God
Is the existence of God a question of fact? To the majority of theists, both now and in the past, I think it has seemed clear that, if the phrase ‘God exists’ is to be meaningful, then it is a fact, either that God exists or that he does not. This assertion may even seem trivially true; and yet it has evidently been denied, in recent years, by many theologians. The reasons for such a denial are, in part, to be found in the general reaction agains…
A New Kind of Aids: Adapting to the Success of Protease Inhibitors in an Aids Care Organization
Producing `Pride' in West Hollywood: A Queer Cultural Capital for Queers with Cultural Capital
This paper applies Pierre Bourdieu's theorization of class positioning and cultural capital to a case study of conflicts between the working class organizers of an urban LGBT pride celebration and the local gay press, gay government and gay professional community. I conclude with a discussion of two developments in the LGBT movement more broadly, that have implications for how professionalism, good taste and skill are being defined by powerful st…
Producing 'Pride' in West Hollywood: A Queer Cultural Capital for Queers With Cultural Capital
Not all Differences are Created Equal: Multiple Jeopardy in a Gendered Organization
The dictate in feminist intersectional theory to not 'count oppressions' is difficult to reconcile with the experience of many lesbians of color that 'not all differences are created equal' inside social movement organizations. Meso-level factors, such as organizational structure and sociopolitical environment, may result in the perception of individuals or groups that one form of structural inequality is more oppressive than others. The author f…
Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations
Dude-Sex: White Masculinities and `Authentic' Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex With Dudes
Based on examination of an online community in which white `str8'-identified men assert that sex with other white men bolsters their heterosexual masculinity, this article examines the heterosexual and racialized meanings that white str8 dudes attach to their same-sex behaviors. The study points to the role of whiteness in the process of establishing heterosexual `realness', or believable straight culture. Findings indicate that for the white str…
White Normativity: The Cultural Dimensions of Whiteness in a Racially Diverse LGBT Organization
This article builds on examinations of whiteness in organizations by considering how white normativity-or the often unconscious and invisible ideas and practices that make whiteness appear natural and right-is sustained even in organizations that are attentive to structural factors. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article critically examines the racial identity and culture of the Center, a Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, an…
The Reaches of Heteronormativity: An Introduction
Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and Collective Work of Transgression
This article takes femme/FTM sexual relationships as a point of departure to consider gender itself as a form of labor, or to illustrate how gender subjectivities are constituted by various labors required of, and provided by, intimate others. Analysis focuses on the work that women do in relationships with transgendered men, specifically the work that they do to validate and celebrate their partners’ masculinity. ‘Gender labor’ extends beyond th…
From 'Black people are not a homosexual act' to 'gay is the new Black: Mapping white uses of Blackness in modern gay rights campaigns in the United States
This paper examines the ways in which rhetorics of Blackness and civil rights have been deployed by Whites positioned on both sides of modern gay rights discourse in the United States. The authors argue that the contemporary deployment of Blackness by both gay and anti-gay movements concurrently is linked to the longstanding use of race on both sides of anti-gay referendum and initiative campaigns since the late 1970s, as well as to the even long…
Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in Queer Utopia
Contemporary parenthood is a condition bound up with heteronormative futurity. The child symbolizes the future itself, with its ostensibly limitless and unknowable possibilities. The child’s future can go “either way,” good or bad, normal or queer, gratifying or terrifying. Following in the traditions of their time and place, parents set the stage for a future they hope will be healthy and prosperous, offering them a return on their investment. A…
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: there’s fraternity and military hazing ritu…
Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It
This essay examines critical responses to the author’s 2015 book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men , with a focus on claims about the illegitimacy of queer and feminist methods. Positing Not Gay as evidence of the proliferation of elitist pseudoscience at odds with the lived experiences of the gay general public, critics of Not Gay depicted a significant divide between “average gay men” and “Queer Theorists,” the latter of whom they named a…
Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men
A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight- -her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple’s therapy in a search for happiness. In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality , Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in…
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple’s therapy in a sea…
A decision aid to support family carers of people living with dementia towards the end‐of‐life: Coproduction process, outcome and reflections
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power…
Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work
What counts as sex work, and what is at stake when we narrow or broaden its boundaries? Drawing on interviews with intimacy coordinators, television screenwriters, directors, and actors, this article takes television sex scenes and their contested meaning as a point of departure for engaging with current feminist debates regarding definitions of sex work. Current transformations in how TV sex scenes are being reconceptualized by women inside the …
Development of a decision‐support framework to support professionals and promote comfort among older hospital inpatients living with dementia
BACKGROUND: Acute hospital wards can be difficult places for many people living with dementia. Promoting comfort and wellbeing can be challenging in this environment. There is little evidence-based support for professionals working on acute care wards on how to respond to distress and maximise comfort and wellbeing among patients living with dementia. OBJECTIVES: Our overall aim was to codesign an evidence-based easy-to-use heuristic decision-sup…
Co‐Designing a Palliative Dementia Care Framework to Support Holistic Assessment and Decision Making: The Embed‐Care Framework
BACKGROUND: People with dementia have complex palliative care needs that are often unmet, including physical and psycho-social needs. It is essential to empower people with dementia, family carers and professionals to better assess and manage care needs. We aimed to co-design a palliative dementia care Framework delivered through a digital app to support holistic assessment and decision making for care in the community and care homes-the EMBED-Ca…
The Revolution Will Not Be Exhausted
The Witch Studies Reader
Witch Studies Reader
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Heterosexuality (4 works) · History (4 works)