Women’s Studies

Gayle Rubin

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1994

M.A. Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1974

B.A., Women's Studies, with Highest Honors and with Distinction, University of Michigan, 1972 

Contact Information:
Department of Anthropology
104B West Hall
1085 S. University
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1092
phone: 734-764-7274
fax: 734-763-6077

Email: grubin@umich.edu

Scholarly Interests: Sexual populations and geographies, sexological theory, durable inequalities, gay/lesbian ethnography, racial taxonomies, deindustrialization and urban reconstruction.

Publications:

2002 "Studying Sexual Subcultures:  the Ethnography of Gay Communities in Urban North America," in Ellen Lewin and William Leap, eds., Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 17-68. 

1997 "Elegy for the Valley of the Kings: AIDS and the Leather Community in San Francisco, 1981-1996," in Martin P. Levine, Peter M. Nardi, and John H. Gagnon, eds., In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS, Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 101-143. 1

1984 "Thinking Sex," in Carole Vance, ed., Pleasure and Danger, N.Y., Routledge & Kegan, Paul. 267- 319. 

1975 "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy' of Sex" in Rayna Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women, New York, Monthly Review. 157-210.

 




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