Janet Jakobsen

Janet R. Jakobsen is a scholar of gender and sexuality. She is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College and Director of Barnard's Center for Research on Women. She has also been Barnard's Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development.[1]

Janet Jakobsen
EducationEmory University
OccupationProfessor
EmployerBarnard College
Notable work
Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance with Ann Pellegrini
TitleAnn Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Partner(s)Christina Crosby

Academic career

Jakobsen received her doctorate from Emory University.[2] She taught at Wesleyan University before moving to Barnard.[3]

Personal life

Jakobsen's partner is Wesleyan professor of English and professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies Christina Crosby.[3] Crosby writes about their life together after Crosby's paralyzing bike accident in her memoir, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain.[4]

Bibliography

Books

Articles and book chapters

  • "Queer Is? Queer Does?: Normativity and Resistance," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 4 (1998)
  • "Family Values and Working Alliances: The Question of Hate and Public Policy," in Welfare Policy: Feminist Critiques, ed. E. Bounds, P. Brubaker and M. Hobgood (Pilgrim Press, 1999)
  • " 'He Has Wronged America and Women': Bill Clinton's Sexual Conservatism," in Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, eds. Lisa Duggan and Lauren Berlant (New York University Press, 2001)
  • "Can Homosexuals End Western Civilization as We Know It?: Family Values in a Global Economy," in Queer Globalization/Local Homosexualities, ed. A. Cruz- Malavé and M. Manalansan (New York University Press, 2002)
  • "Sex and Freedom" with Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy in Regulating Sex, ed. E. Bernstein and L. Schaffner (Routledge Press, 2005)
  • "Different Differences: Theory and the Practice of Women's Studies," in Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics, ed. Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Meryl Beins (Rutgers University Press, 2006)
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References

  1. "Janet Jakobsen | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  2. "Janet R. Jakobsen | Center for the Study of Social Difference". socialdifference.columbia.edu. Columbia University. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  3. Rubenstein, Lauren (March 18, 2015). "Crosby Honored at Barnard College Event". News @ Wesleyan. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  4. Weinstein, Michael M. (April 16, 2016). "A Professor's Memoir of Life Inside a Ravaged Body". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  5. Skerrett, K. (1 September 2003). "Review: Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 71 (3): 695–697. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfg086. ISSN 0002-7189.
  6. Ayoub, Nina C. (7 February 2003). "Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982.
  7. Stayton, William R. (2004). "Review of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 13 (2): 252–254. doi:10.1353/sex.2004.0072. JSTOR 3704863.
  8. Troy, Jodok (1 January 2007). "Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence". Journal of Peace Research. 44 (1): 123. doi:10.1177/0022343307072428. ISSN 0022-3433.
  9. Brittain, Christopher Craig (2009). "Book Reviews /Comptes Rendu Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini, eds., Secularisms". Canadian Journal of Sociology. 34 (1).
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