{"id":1722,"date":"2009-09-07T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?page_id=1722"},"modified":"2017-01-19T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T01:19:42","slug":"adina-nack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/editors\/adina-nack\/","title":{"rendered":"Adina Nack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Adina<\/a><\/h1>\n

Author of the column Bedside Manners<\/strong> which focuses on applying the sociological imagination to medical topics, with a special focus on sexual and reproductive health.<\/em><\/p>\n

Adina Nack PhD,<\/strong> has been researching and writing about health, sexuality and stigma since 1994: starting as an outreach educator for Girls, Inc. of Orange County, CA and continuing through\u00a0her doctoral work at\u00a0the University of Colorado, Boulder.\u00a0Author of the book Damaged Goods? Women Living with Incurable STDs<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/em>, Nack has\u00a0published articles and essays on topics including\u00a0STD stigma, sex education, and\u00a0HIV\/AIDS. She has written for Ms.<\/em> Magazine<\/a>,\u00a0her academic articles have been\u00a0reprinted in over\u00a0a dozen anthologies, and she has won awards for her research, teaching, activism, and public policy work.<\/p>\n

As a medical sociologist, sex educator, and sexual health researcher, Nack has\u00a0been seen and heard in MTV documentaries, CBS’s\u00a0The Doctors<\/span><\/a><\/em>, local and regional newspapers<\/a> and magazines<\/a>, and interviewed on\u00a0a variety of\u00a0radio programs, including NPR<\/a> and FOX News Radio shows. She gives talks and workshops to a variety of audiences: e.g., college students, national academic associations, and national youth pastor conferences. Always focused on how academic research can inform real-life solutions to social problems, she addresses a range of topics: including how to have better sex in a world with STDs,\u00a0the personal and public health implications of mixing morality with medicine,\u00a0HPV\u00a0vaccines, pop culture, and youth culture.<\/p>\n

In the past, Nack has directed the University of Colorado’s Sexual Health Education Program, been a professor at the University of Maine, and served as a reviewer for top academic journals and the National Science Foundation. Currently she is a tenured\u00a0Professor of Sociology at California Lutheran University<\/a>, where she directed their Gender and Women’s Studies Program and currently serves as\u00a0Director of their Center for Equality and Justice and\u00a0Chair of the Sociology Department. Follow her on twitter @adinanack<\/a> and visit her online at www.adinanack.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Past Posts<\/h2>\n

Catheters, Slurs, and Pick-Up Lines<\/a><\/p>\n

Giving Thanks for the Wisdom of Elders<\/a><\/p>\n

Can We Have the HPV Vaccine Without the Sexism and the Homophobia?<\/a><\/p>\n

Sociologists Shed New Light on Self-Injury<\/a><\/p>\n

Medical Care or Moral Surveillance?<\/a><\/p>\n

Respect and Protect the Pelvic Floor<\/a><\/p>\n

Activists’ Media Work — Likely to Not\u00a0Work <\/a><\/p>\n

O Canada! You Took a Stand on Gardasil for Thee (and for all of us \u2018older\u2019 women)<\/a><\/p>\n

Fallen Gridiron Warriors<\/a><\/p>\n

Peeing When You Laugh is Not Funny, Neither is Misrepresenting Research<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll take Zombies over Racists, Rapists and Wife-Beaters\u2026any day<\/a><\/p>\n

From Childbirth Educator to Doula and Back Again \u2014 Trends in the History of Birth Advocacy and Education<\/a><\/p>\n

New Blood, a New View of Menstrual Activism<\/a><\/p>\n

BP, American Pimp<\/a><\/p>\n

Heartbreaking Choices<\/a><\/p>\n

In a time of Recession, Feminist Fashionistas Unite!<\/a><\/p>\n

Something Stinks about this GlaxoSmithKline Ad<\/a><\/p>\n

Why This Feminist Cares about Men’s\u00a0Health<\/a><\/p>\n

New Pap Smear Guidelines – No, Thank You (Part II)<\/a><\/p>\n

Gender & “Constrained” Health Choices<\/a><\/p>\n

New Pap Smear Guidelines\u00a0– No, Thank You (Part I)<\/a><\/p>\n

Gender-blurring Gen Y & Gen Z Making Headlines<\/a><\/p>\n

Wishing Everyone a Happy, Safe and Feminist Halloween!<\/a><\/p>\n

You Don’t Need a Cervix to Benefit from the “Cervical Cancer” Vaccine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HPV, Stress & the “Inner Game”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Beauty Myth<\/em>: Then and Now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The “Cervical Cancer” Vaccine, STD Stigma & AdAdvthe Truth about HPV<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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