Christine Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5057-119X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Precarity 2.0
While sociologists agree that precarious jobs are “bad jobs,” this is not necessarily the view of workers in these positions. The four books under review represent a fresh approach to the study of precarious work (labelled “Precarity 2.0”). These authors eschew the conventional wisdom that standard jobs are always superior to gig work. They find that some precarious workers find meaning and purpose in their “bad jobs,” and some even manage to thr…
Sharone, Ofer. The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed
Unionizing High Tech: Opportunities and Obstacles
The WERN report documents the rise of worker-led collective action in the tech industry. We distinguish two types of activism emerging from tech professionals-demands for greater corporate social responsibility and demands for improved employment rights-and consider the opportunities each affords the larger labor movement. In the second section, we consider how the venture-capital funding model that structures the tech industry presents unique ch…
The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society
Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains
Où placer la ligne rouge ? La qualification du harcèlement sexuel dans les restaurants
Comme plusieurs travaux l’ont montré, les salariées sont majoritairement exposées au harcèlement sexuel et souffrent des répercussions négatives qu’il engendre ; pourtant, seule une minorité de ces femmes qualifie ces expériences vécues de « harcèlement sexuel ». Dans le cadre d’une enquête sur l’identification du harcèlement sexuel, des entretiens approfondis avec dix-huit serveuses et serveurs ont été menés dans des restaurants d’Austin, au Tex…
Women and Leadership
The Politics of Value: Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy
The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial
Anti-Racism and Predominantly 'White Areas: Local and National Referents in the Search for Race Equality in Social Work Education
This article draws on research that investigated teaching and learning for anti-racist and cultural competency practice across social work programmes in Wales. It utilises the concept of ‘predominantly white areas’, defined as both a spatial category and as a mode of thinking to show how anti-racist teaching can be marginalised by misplaced assumptions associated with small minority presence. It draws on the relatively new theoretical trajectory …
From Specialism to Genericism: Rising and Falling to the Challenges of Responding to Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Social Work Education in Wales
Issues of race equality/cultural diversity have been on the UK social work training agenda since the late 1970s; few attempts have been made to assess training inputs or evaluate outcomes. This aspect of social work education remains under-researched but the nature and extent of such training are also highly contested. This paper reports on a study of programme providers across Wales aimed at capturing the nature and extent of training on issues …
The Happy Marriage of Capitalism and Feminism
Sheryl Sandberg was not a feminist when she was attending college in the 1980s. She and her friends thought that feminists were angry, man-hating, humorless, and irrelevant. She has since come to the realization that men run the world, and she has launched a new feminist movement called ‘‘Lean In’’ to change that. Women lead only 17 of the 195 independent countries and 21 of the Fortune 500 companies; getting more women into these top offices is …
Acculturation and Health Status Among Hispanic American Elders
PURPOSE: Hispanic Americans are at risk for health-related problems. Disparities in diseases such as diabetes and obesity, poor access to health services, and lack of health insurance have placed Hispanic Americans at a disadvantage. Sociocultural factors such as acculturation and its relationship to health require further investigation. The primary purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between acculturation and health in Hispani…
Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy
Culturefreak
Christine Williams (2004-2006)
Perspectives on and Carework, guest-edited by Mary Zimmerman and Jacqueline Litt, did come to fruition during my editorial term. I also began an inter-journal exchange with the Asian of Women's Studies', and abroad, I co-organized a panel of Latin American and Caribbean and U.S. based scholarly journal editors on Promoting Collaborations Among Feminist Journals as part of a conference on Globalization and Gender that was held at the University of…
Working Class Heroes
The Good Temp
Part-Time Work and the Gender Division of Labor
Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives
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Mothers in 'Good' and 'Bad' Part-time Jobs: Different Problems, Same Results
Part-time work schedules are a popular option for many women struggling to reconcile the competing demands of employment and motherhood. They are controversial among feminists because they are associated with job penalties that promote gender inequality. Previous research on this topic has focused on issues confronting women workers in professional and managerial jobs. In this article, we compare and contrast the experiences of women in professio…
Adding Value to Tourism and Leisure Organizations Through Frontline Staff
The tourism and leisure industry is reliant on frontline staff to deliver the customer experience in a satisfactory manner. Organizations also require staff to achieve organizational objectives (i.e., performance targets on sales; delivery of the service within a specified timescale, etc.). The recruitment of the right staff and the development of their decision-making skills is a critical factor in this dichotomy of balancing customer needs with…
Gender, Consumption and
The history of consumerism has been shaped by gender inequality. During the colonial period, when families produced most of what they consumed, a gender division of labor prevailed in which men supplied the raw materials (e.g., wheat, flax, animals) and women transformed them into commodities for consumption (e.g., bread, cloth, meals). During industrialization, the period characterized by historians as bringing about the “separation of spheres,”…
"Still Missing? Comments on the Twentieth Anniversary of "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology
Journal Article Still Missing? Comments on the Twentieth Anniversary of "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology" Get access Christine Williams Christine Williams University of Texas—Austin Direct correspondence to: Christine Williams, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 53, Issue 4, 1 …
Male god imagery and female submission: Lessons from a southern baptist ladies' bible class
Mothers in 'Good' and 'Bad' Part-time Jobs: Different Problems, Same Results
Part-time work schedules are a popular option for many women struggling to reconcile the competing demands of employment and motherhood. They are controversial among feminists because they are associated with job penalties that promote gender inequality. Previous research on this topic has focused on issues confronting women workers in professional and managerial jobs. In this article, we compare and contrast the experiences of women in professio…
Part-Time Work and the Gender Division of Labor
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue: Military Policy and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity
This paper presents a description and analysis of military policy excluding lesbians and gay men. First, we discuss the current policy, review its official rationale, and outline the various criticisms that have been made against it. Next, we suggest an alternative framework for the policy's persistence. Drawing on work in feminist theory, we argue that the military's restrictions on the service of lesbians and gay men reflects an institutional a…
Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation
In August 2002, the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH) was charged with developing recommendations to substantially increase rates of tobacco cessation in the United States. The subcommittee’s report, A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation, outlines 10 recommendations for reducing premature morbidity and mortality by helping millions of Americans stop using tobacco. The plan includes both evi…
When and How Does Ethnicity Matter? A Cross-National Study of Social Work Responses to Ethnicity in Child Protection Cases
It is an established part of the conventional wisdom of social work theory and practice that attention to ethnic difference is at the core of best practice. This principle is endorsed in welfare legislation or in the training and education of social workers in most European countries. Little empirical evidence exists, however, to demonstrate that this principle guides practitioner decision making, or to verify the claim that it benefits ethnic mi…
In the Company of Men: Male Dominance and Sexual Harassment
"Still Missing? Comments on the Twentieth Anniversary of "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology
Journal Article Still Missing? Comments on the Twentieth Anniversary of "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology" Get access Christine Williams Christine Williams University of Texas—Austin Direct correspondence to: Christine Williams, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 53, Issue 4, 1 …
The Happy Marriage of Capitalism and Feminism
Sheryl Sandberg was not a feminist when she was attending college in the 1980s. She and her friends thought that feminists were angry, man-hating, humorless, and irrelevant. She has since come to the realization that men run the world, and she has launched a new feminist movement called ‘‘Lean In’’ to change that. Women lead only 17 of the 195 independent countries and 21 of the Fortune 500 companies; getting more women into these top offices is …
Militarized masculinity
Women, law and politics: Recruitment patterns in the fifty states
"On Gilligan's "In a Different Voice
To Know Me Is to Love Me? Response to Erich Goode
Working Class Heroes
The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society
Où placer la ligne rouge ? La qualification du harcèlement sexuel dans les restaurants
Comme plusieurs travaux l’ont montré, les salariées sont majoritairement exposées au harcèlement sexuel et souffrent des répercussions négatives qu’il engendre ; pourtant, seule une minorité de ces femmes qualifie ces expériences vécues de « harcèlement sexuel ». Dans le cadre d’une enquête sur l’identification du harcèlement sexuel, des entretiens approfondis avec dix-huit serveuses et serveurs ont été menés dans des restaurants d’Austin, au Tex…
The Politics of Value: Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy
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Sexual harassment and human rights law in New Zealand
(2003). Sexual harassment and human rights law in New Zealand. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 573-584
Walmart in the Global South: Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains
Unionizing High Tech: Opportunities and Obstacles
The WERN report documents the rise of worker-led collective action in the tech industry. We distinguish two types of activism emerging from tech professionals-demands for greater corporate social responsibility and demands for improved employment rights-and consider the opportunities each affords the larger labor movement. In the second section, we consider how the venture-capital funding model that structures the tech industry presents unique ch…
The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial
Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives
What's in a name? Evaluations of literary names in context and in isolation
"On Gilligan's "In a Different Voice
Never Married Women
Nothing is more ridiculous than someone who says, upon learning that I never got married, 'Oh, you would like my Aunt _____ ! She never got married either. You two would have a lot in common' - from an interview, August 1984. In this timely and provocative study, Barbara Levy Simon interviews fifty American women, born between 1884 and 1918 who were never married, and examines their emphatic refusal to be 'yoked by wifing', as one woman expressed…
Gender Differences at Work: Women and Men in Nontraditional Occupations
Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are entirely unfounded. This new perspective helps to account for the stubborn resilience of occupational stratification in the face of affirmative action an…
Women, law and politics: Recruitment patterns in the fifty states
Doing “Women's Work”: Men in Nontraditional Occupations
Militarized masculinity
Four Sociological Traditions
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue: Military Policy and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity
This paper presents a description and analysis of military policy excluding lesbians and gay men. First, we discuss the current policy, review its official rationale, and outline the various criticisms that have been made against it. Next, we suggest an alternative framework for the policy's persistence. Drawing on work in feminist theory, we argue that the military's restrictions on the service of lesbians and gay men reflects an institutional a…
Male god imagery and female submission: Lessons from a southern baptist ladies' bible class
Still a Man's World: Men Who Do Women's Work
Men who do 'women's work' have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted extensive interviews in four cities, Williams uncovers how men in four occupations - nursing, elementary school teaching, librarian ship, and social work - think about themselves and experience the…
New Ethnographies
Dissemination of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guideline
The efforts of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) to disseminate our smoking cessation guideline1 to a variety of populations has netted some very impressive payoffs. Our efforts are not without challenges in dissemination as well as implementation, however. The key challenge in dissemination is to be broad enough to capture a wide range of populations. The key challenge in implementation has been debunking the myths surroundi…
Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations
To Know Me Is to Love Me? Response to Erich Goode
Sexual harassment and human rights law in New Zealand
(2003). Sexual harassment and human rights law in New Zealand. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 573-584
Self, Social Structure, and BeliefsExplorations in Sociology: Explorations in Sociology
Teacher, scholar, and leader, Neil Smelser stands as an iconic figure in sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The chapters in this volume, written by prominent scholars from all walks of the social sciences, reveal the range and depth of Smelser's influence and his substantial contributions to diverse fields such as British history, social change, collective behavior, higher education, the economy, and psychoanalysis
Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation
In August 2002, the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH) was charged with developing recommendations to substantially increase rates of tobacco cessation in the United States. The subcommittee’s report, A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation, outlines 10 recommendations for reducing premature morbidity and mortality by helping millions of Americans stop using tobacco. The plan includes both evi…
When and How Does Ethnicity Matter? A Cross-National Study of Social Work Responses to Ethnicity in Child Protection Cases
It is an established part of the conventional wisdom of social work theory and practice that attention to ethnic difference is at the core of best practice. This principle is endorsed in welfare legislation or in the training and education of social workers in most European countries. Little empirical evidence exists, however, to demonstrate that this principle guides practitioner decision making, or to verify the claim that it benefits ethnic mi…
In the Company of Men: Male Dominance and Sexual Harassment
"Still Missing? Comments on the Twentieth Anniversary of "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology
Journal Article Still Missing? Comments on the Twentieth Anniversary of "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology" Get access Christine Williams Christine Williams University of Texas—Austin Direct correspondence to: Christine Williams, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 53, Issue 4, 1 …
Adding Value to Tourism and Leisure Organizations Through Frontline Staff
The tourism and leisure industry is reliant on frontline staff to deliver the customer experience in a satisfactory manner. Organizations also require staff to achieve organizational objectives (i.e., performance targets on sales; delivery of the service within a specified timescale, etc.). The recruitment of the right staff and the development of their decision-making skills is a critical factor in this dichotomy of balancing customer needs with…
Gender, Consumption and
The history of consumerism has been shaped by gender inequality. During the colonial period, when families produced most of what they consumed, a gender division of labor prevailed in which men supplied the raw materials (e.g., wheat, flax, animals) and women transformed them into commodities for consumption (e.g., bread, cloth, meals). During industrialization, the period characterized by historians as bringing about the “separation of spheres,”…
Part-Time Work and the Gender Division of Labor
Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives
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