Jane Ward

For the volleyball player, see Jane Ward (volleyball).
Jane Ward gives a lecture at Skylight Books in Los Angeles on September 8, 2015.

Jane Ward is an American scholar, feminist, and author. She is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside.[1] She is known for her book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (NYU Press, 2015),[2] a 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.[3] Ward's research has been featured in New York Magazine, The Guardian, Forbes, Salon, Newsweek, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, and Vice. Her 2008 book Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations was named a favorite book of 2008 by The Progressive magazine.[4]She lives in Altadena, California with her partner Kat Ross. Ward's published work focuses on a broad range of topics, from feminist pornography, queer parenting, and the racial politics of same-sex marriage, to the social construction of heterosexuality and whiteness. Several blogs to showcase her writing. She is the blogger for FeministPigs.[5] She is a cofounder, along with CJ Pascoe and Tey Meadow, of the blog SocialInqueery.com.[6] Beyond her writing, she was a founding member of “The Miracle Whips” in 2004, which is a burlesque group. She also started the parenting collective “L.A. Genderqueer Parenting” in 2009. Both groups are based in Los Angeles. In her free time, Ward likes to bake and garden.

Works

Ward's second book Not Gay has received positive reviews from New York Magazine and many other outlets. New York Magazine states "[Ward] shows that homosexual contact has been a regular feature of heterosexual life ever since the concepts of homo- and heterosexuality were first created -- not just in prisons and frat houses and the military, but in biker gangs and even conservative suburban neighborhoods."[7]

As of 2015, Ward is working on a monograph entitled The Failure of Heterosexuality: How Sexism Doomed the World's Most Cherished Union (and Hid the Wreckage).

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty Profile System: Jane Ward". University of California, Riverside website. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Singal, Jesse (August 5, 2015). "Why Straight Men Have Sex With Each Other". New York. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ "28th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  4. ↑ The Progressive Magazine 72: 38. December 12, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ http://feministpigs.blogspot.com/
  6. ↑ https://socialinqueery.com/
  7. ↑ http://www.janewardphd.com/books.html


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