{"id":39224,"date":"2011-10-01T17:53:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T22:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39224"},"modified":"2011-10-20T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:20:07","slug":"this-month-in-sociological-images-september-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/01\/this-month-in-sociological-images-september-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month in Sociological Images (September 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY October! Here are some highlights from last month…<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>New Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/strong>We’re pleased to announce that Wendy Christensen, visiting Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College<\/a>, has joined us as a regular contributor.\u00a0She studies the families of men and women in the armed forces, especially the ways that the military “recruits” family members into support roles. \u00a0Her first post on war-themed advertising<\/a>was picked up by BoingBoing<\/a>! Keep your eye out for posts or follow her on\u00a0twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

News, Publications, and Appearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to Rebecca Pardo and the team at\u00a0Impact<\/a>,\u00a0 I had the super fun experience of\u00a0talking about hook up culture on MTV Canada<\/a> last week. \u00a0That’s a first for me!<\/p>\n

I also got to play a part in a CNN story about\u00a0the difference between nerds and hipsters<\/a>. Great idea for a story and well written by\u00a0Aaron Sagers.<\/p>\n

Contributor Caroline Heldman continues to report on the cheerleader who was forced to cheer for the man who she alleges sexually assaulted her. \u00a0After losing a court case against the school, she was required to pay the school’s $35,000 in legal fees. \u00a0An outcry led to an overturning of that requirement. \u00a0More at\u00a0Ms.<\/em> magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to visiting Pacific Lutheran University this month (October 25-26). I’ll be talking about both\u00a0hook up culture<\/a> and my research about\u00a0U.S. discourses on \u201cfemale genital mutilation.\u201d<\/a> I’d love to see you there!<\/p>\n

I’ve also just\u00a0scheduled talks<\/a> at the University of\u00a0Massachusetts\u00a0– Amherst and Harvard in March. \u00a0More on those later!<\/p>\n

We were also linked from\u00a0Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish<\/a>, Feministing<\/a>,\u00a0The Frisky<\/a>, and\u00a0BoingBoing<\/a> (as mentioned above). \u00a0We bask in the attention.<\/p>\n

Progress on Course Guides:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Nell Trautner<\/a> \u2014 University at Buffalo, SUNY \u2014 has developed a fantastic new\u00a0Course Guide for instructors teaching Sociology of Gender<\/a>. We hope you think it\u2019s as awesome as we do!<\/p>\n

Gwen is also hard at work on her\u00a0Introduction to Sociology Course Guide<\/a> and I’m working on a Research Methods guide that’ll be ready soon.<\/p>\n

We’d like to collect as many Course Guides as we can, even different takes on the same course. \u00a0So, if you’re interested in writing on, please see our\u00a0Instructors Page<\/a>. There’s other good stuff for instructors there too.<\/p>\n

Best of September:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our fabulous intern, Norma Morella, collected the stuff ya’ll liked best from last month. \u00a0Here’s what she found:<\/p>\n