Gender and Sexuality
Sociological analysis of gender, sexuality, and intersectional inequality, drawing on West & Zimmerman, Connell, and Butler.
Gender and Sexuality
Doing Gender and Gender Performativity
West & Zimmerman's *Doing Gender*, Butler's performativity, Connell's masculinities, and contemporary trans sociology.
Gender in the Labor Market
Occupational segregation, the motherhood penalty, glass ceilings and glass cliffs, and the devaluation of women's work.
Sexuality, Orientation, and Social Change
From the Kinsey scale to D'Emilio's capitalism-and-gay-identity argument and the legal revolution in marriage equality.
Intersectionality and Multiple Inequalities
Crenshaw's 1989 essay, Patricia Hill Collins on Black feminist thought, intersectionality as method, and contemporary debates.
Masculinities and Men's Studies
Räwyn Connell's relational theory of masculinities, hegemonic and subordinated forms, Michael Kimmel's historical sociology, contemporary manosphere research, and men's health.