Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (Sociology Re-Wired)

Transforming Scholarship is a user-friendly work of practical guidance and inspiration for supporting a student's interest in a Women's Studies degree. Berger and Radeloff use empirical evidence to help students with the major barriers they face when exploring Women's Studies: the negative response a student often faces when announcing to the world that he or she is interested in Women’s Studies; and the perceived lack of employment and career options that supposedly comes with graduating with a Women's Studies degree. This book will support students to think critically about what they know, how to demonstrate what they know, and how to prepare for life both personally and professionally after the degree. Transforming Scholarship is a practical guide for students interested in women’s and gender studies that targets advanced undergraduates who have a firm connection to the discipline. This book is ideal for women’s and gender capstone courses, and for those who have finished their degree and need a resource to assist in conceptualizing the answers to the question "What’s next?" This second edition of Transforming Scholarship focuses on areas that undergraduates might want integrate into their women’s and gender studies education: study abroad, civic engagement projects, internships, independent studies, and honors theses. It includes exercises to help flesh out talents, passions, and skills, and how to link them to employment, information about the diversity of employment opportunities (and further professional training) available, and a plan to help prepare for graduation. It also delves into how to live a feminist life after graduation, including activism after college, building and sustaining feminist communities, and feminist parenting. The authors have also added new "Point of View" boxes throughout the book, where scholars focus on contemporary issues and deepen a student’s understanding of the organizations and individuals fighting to end sexist oppression.

Politics & Social Sciences

Berger, Michele Tracy

Radeloff, Cheryl

Social Sciences

Routledge

Transforming Scholarship is a user-friendly work of practical guidance and inspiration for supporting a student's interest in a Women's Studies degree. It focuses on three of the major barriers students face when exploring Women's Studies: a lack of awareness that Women's Studies constitutes an academic field; the negative response a student often faces when announcing to the world that he or she is interested in Women’s Studies; and the perceived lack of employment and career options that supposedly comes with graduating with a Women's Studies degree. This book will support students to think critically about what they know, how to demonstrate what they know, and how to prepare for life both personally and professionally after the degree. Integrated into this book is the authors' research. They surveyed over 900 women’s and gender studies graduates (1995-2010) from around the globe ranging from Georgia State University to University of Ghana about their experiences as a student and their career paths. This is currently the largest global data set about contemporary women's and gender studies graduates!

Radeloff, Cheryl L

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels "intersectional stigma," a complex process by which women of color, already experiencing race, class, and gender oppression, are also labeled, judged, and given inferior treatment because of their status as drug users, sex workers, and HIV-positive women.
 The work explores the barriers of stigma in relation to political participation, and demonstrates how stigma can be effectively challenged and redirected.
 The majority of the women in Berger's book are women of color, in particular African Americans and Latinas. The study elaborates the process by which these women have become conscious of their social position as HIV-positive and politically active as activists, advocates, or helpers. She builds a picture of community-based political participation that challenges popular, medical, and scholarly representations of "crack addicted prostitutes" and HIV-positive women as social problems or victims, rather than as agents of social change. Berger argues that the women's development of a political identity is directly related to a process called "life reconstruction." This process includes substance- abuse treatment, the recognition of gender as a salient factor in their lives, and the use of nontraditional political resources.

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Princeton University Press

Gaining access is a critical part of doing research, not only because one must 'get in' in order to gain information, but also because the quality of access affects what information is available to the researcher. Despite its importance, the literature on qualitative methods has not yet provided an extensive treatment of this issue. Gaining Access fills the void by offering useful, prescriptive advice on how to successfully enter different field settings for interviewing and observation. The detailed methodological guidelines presented by the authors are reinforced in a set of case studies by expert researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds on a wide variety of formal and informal settings, from working with ethnic minorities in Bosnia to studying prisons, sex workers, welfare offices, and the clergy. This book will provide useful ideas to experienced qualitative researchers as well as invaluable advice to novices conducting their first study.

Gaining Access: A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers (The Reynolds Series in Sociology)

Bell, Jeannine

Feldman, Martha S.

Reference

AltaMira Press

Transforming Scholarship (Sociology Re-Wired)

Product Description Transforming Scholarship offers an essential guide to one of the most richly rewarding yet often under-appreciated academic majors: Women's and Gender Studies. This fully updated and revised third edition answers the question of what you can do with a women’s and gender studies degree with resounding authority. Chapters include exercises and valuable point-of-view segments with recent graduates and academics to help students realize their many talents and passions and how these may be linked to future professional opportunities. Students are also encouraged to reflect on the ways in which their efforts in the classroom can be translated into a life guided by feminism, civic engagement, and activism with updates such as:A focus on activism that resulted from socio-political movements in the 2010s–2020, such as #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) and the #MeToo Movement;An examination of the impact of COVID-19 on the academic and socio-cultural environment and career opportunities for graduates;An exploration of increased acceptance of social justice and feminist perspectives;Highlighting of intersectional identities of WGST students and faculty. Transforming Scholarship is an ideal counterpart and companion for capstone courses in women’s and gender studies, and for those who have finished their degree and are looking for invaluable advice while pondering, "What’s next?" Review “In this timely and important third edition, Berger and Radeloff continue their deep dive into what WGS students can do with their degrees. Unique in its focus on students’ ‘professionalization,’ Transforming Scholarship offers everyone in WGS, from students to faculty, important insights into how to translate and communicate this field’s skills and knowledges to multiple audiences―and why it matters even more now. A key text for this critical moment, when the lens offered by WGS education are so important to challenging and changing the world around us.”Ann Braithwaite,Professor of Diversity and Social Justice Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada“Transforming Scholarship provides plenty of opportunities for introspection and exploration of what it means to be a gender scholar in the world. Berger & Radeloff have produced an updated tool that will effectively help our students take their passion for gender equality and turn it into the fuel to launch their professional lives.”Paola Ehrmantraut, Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of St. Thomas, USA“Now more than ever, the world needs the critical thinking and skills for social change that women’s and gender studies majors spend years developing. Berger and Radeloff are inspirational guides for early career feminists preparing to take on these challenges.”Elizabeth R. Cole, Professor of Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, USA About the Author Michele Tracy Berger is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research, teaching, and practice all focus on intersectional approaches to studying areas of inequality, especially racial and gender health disparities. Her work spans the fields of public health, sociology, and women's and gender studies. Cheryl Radeloff is a Senior Health Educator with the Southern Nevada Health District. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the College of Southern Nevada. She received her PhD in Sociology from UNLV in 2004. Her research interests include gender studies, sexual and public health, particularly HIV and STIs, and social policy and are reflected in her professional and community activism.

History

Americas

Product Description 
Transforming Scholarship offers an essential guide to one of the most richly rewarding yet often under-appreciated academic majors: Women's and Gender Studies. 
This fully updated and revised third edition answers the question of what you can do with a women’s and gender studies degree with resounding authority. Chapters include exercises and valuable point-of-view segments with recent graduates and academics to help students realize their many talents and passions and how these may be linked to future professional opportunities. Students are also encouraged to reflect on the ways in which their efforts in the classroom can be translated into a life guided by feminism, civic engagement, and activism with updates such as:\nA focus on activism that resulted from socio-political movements in the 2010s–2020, such as BLM and the #MeToo Movement;\nAn examination of the impact of COVID-19 on the academic and socio-cultural environment and career opportunities for graduates;\nAn exploration of increased acceptance of social justice and feminist perspectives;\nHighlighting of intersectional identities of WGST students and faculty. \nTransforming Scholarship is an ideal counterpart and companion for capstone courses in women’s and gender studies, and for those who have finished their degree and are looking for invaluable advice while pondering, "What’s next?" 
 Review 
“In this timely and important third edition, Berger and Radeloff continue their deep dive into what WGS students can do with their degrees. Unique in its focus on students’ ‘professionalization,’ Transforming Scholarship offers everyone in WGS, from students to faculty, important insights into how to translate and communicate this field’s skills and knowledges to multiple audiences―and why it matters even more now. A key text for this critical moment, when the lens offered by WGS education are so important to challenging and changing the world around us.” 
Ann Braithwaite, Professor of Diversity and Social Justice Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada 
“Transforming Scholarship provides plenty of opportunities for introspection and exploration of what it means to be a gender scholar in the world. Berger & Radeloff have produced an updated tool that will effectively help our students take their passion for gender equality and turn it into the fuel to launch their professional lives.” 
Paola Ehrmantraut, Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of St. Thomas, USA 
“Now more than ever, the world needs the critical thinking and skills for social change that women’s and gender studies majors spend years developing. Berger and Radeloff are inspirational guides for early career feminists preparing to take on these challenges.”\nElizabeth R. Cole, Professor of Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, USA 
 About the Author 
Michele Tracy Berger is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research, teaching, and practice all focus on intersectional approaches to studying areas of inequality, especially racial and gender health disparities. Her work spans the fields of public health, sociology, and women's and gender studies. 
Cheryl Radeloff is a Senior Health Educator with the Southern Nevada Health District. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the College of Southern Nevada. She received her PhD in Sociology from UNLV in 2004. Her research interests include gender studies, sexual and public health, particularly HIV and STIs, and social policy and are reflected in her professional and community activism.

Black Women's Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters

The struggles African American women and their adolescent daughters face in living healthy, active lives From heart disease and diabetes to HIV and obesity, Black women and girls face serious health risks, lagging behind their white counterparts by every measure of health, well-being, and fitness. In Black Women's Health, Michele Tracy Berger shows us why this is the case, exploring how the health needs of Black women and girls are uniquely rooted in their experiences with racism, sexism, and class discrimination. Drawing on interviews with mothers and their daughters, as well as compelling medical data, Berger provides insight into the larger patterns that place Black women at such high risk on a national level. She shows how Black mothers communicate with their daughters about health, sexuality, and intimacy, including how they attempt to promote healthy living standards even as they navigate widespread, systemic challenges. Ultimately, Berger highlights the important role that family--and specifically, the relationship between mothers and daughters--plays in improving public health outcomes. Black Women's Health takes a much-needed, intimate look at how Black women and girls navigate different paths to wellness.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

NYU Press

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Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (Sociology Re-Wired)

Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (Sociology Re-Wired)

Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (Sociology Re-Wired)

Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (Sociology Re-Wired)

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

Gaining Access: A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers (The Reynolds Series in Sociology)

Transforming Scholarship (Sociology Re-Wired)

Transforming Scholarship (Sociology Re-Wired)

Black Women's Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters