{"id":53208,"date":"2013-01-31T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=53208"},"modified":"2013-01-31T00:49:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:49:18","slug":"this-month-in-sociological-images-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/01\/31\/this-month-in-sociological-images-january-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month in Sociological Images (January 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SocImages News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A huge &#8220;thank you&#8221; to all of the nearly 30,000 readers who liked and shared our post <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/01\/22\/the-balancing-act-of-being-female-or-why-we-have-so-many-clothes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Balancing Act of Being Female; Or, Why Women Wear So Many Clothes<\/a>! \u00a0I&#8217;m thrilled that it stuck such a nerve!<\/p>\n<p>In Twitter news, SocImages&#8217; account reached <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SocImages\" target=\"_blank\">10,000 followers<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also pleased to announce a new relationship with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PolicyMic<\/a>, a site dedicated to democratic media for the Millennial generation. I&#8217;ll be posting select stuff\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/profile\/articleList?user_id=29030\" target=\"_blank\">there<\/a>. \u00a0(Special thanks to Sam Meier!) \u00a0I&#8217;ve re-started my blog on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lisa-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a>\u00a0as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, as well, to Jezebel, Racialicious, and Ms. Magazine for re-posting our bits about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5972611\/the-lion-in-the-geico-commercial-ought-to-be-a-lioness\" target=\"_blank\">how Geico dissed the lioness<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/men-want-to-be-breadwinners-but-so-do-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">the disconnect between young men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s hopes for marriage<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2013\/01\/30\/race-rehabilitation-and-the-private-prison-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">how racial minorities and immigrants are disproportionately put in private, for-profit prisons with few counseling and educational programs<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tonight at 7pm I&#8217;m giving a public lecture about <a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/public-speaking\/sex-relationships-and-friendships\/\" target=\"_blank\">hook up culture<\/a> on the campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles. \u00a0If you&#8217;re in town and would like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxy.edu\/events\/hooking-oxy-lecture-panel\" target=\"_blank\">drop by<\/a>, we can convene for drinks afterward!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Lectures and Appearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have six talks scheduled for Spring. If you&#8217;re in Kingston, Boston, or Akron, I&#8217;d love to schedule a meet up!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jan. 31 &#8212; <strong>Occidental College<\/strong> &#8212; &#8220;&#8216;The Night Overall Wasn&#8217;t Bad&#8217;: Oxy Students on Hooking Up&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 26 &#8212;<strong> Queen&#8217;s University of Kingston\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; Hook Up Culture Lecture and Workshop<\/li>\n<li>Mar. 8-14 &#8212;\u00a0<strong>Harvard University<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; &#8220;A Feminist Defense of Friendship&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mar. 27<sup>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<\/sup><strong>Ponoma College &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c\u2018The Night Overall Wasn\u2019t Bad\u2019: What College Students Really Think About Hooking Up\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mar. 28-30 &#8212;\u00a0<strong>Western Political Science Association<\/strong>\u00a0(Hollywood, CA) &#8212; panels on &#8220;Public Intellectualism&#8221; and the &#8220;Twenty-First Century Sex Wars&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Apr. 19 &#8212;\u00a0<strong>University of Akron &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAnatomy of an Outrage: Female Genital Cutting and the Politics of Acculturation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Social Media \u2018n\u2019 Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/socimages\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Sociological-Images-Seeing-Is-Believing\/8399768839\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/2\/114500008673351112338\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>. \u00a0Lisa is on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lisawadephd\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and most of the team is on Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\" target=\"_blank\">@lisawade<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gwensharpnv\" target=\"_blank\">@gwensharpnv<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/familyunequal\" target=\"_blank\">@familyunequal<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/carolineheldman\" target=\"_blank\">@carolineheldman<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JayLivingston\" target=\"_blank\">@jaylivingston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Other News&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was in Costa Rica this month and this &#8212; a wild sloth that came down from the trees to cross the path &#8212; was my favorite moment of the trip. \u00a0After he climbed into the forest on the other side, I actually burst into tears.<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/01\/20130112_101637.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53642\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/01\/20130112_101637-500x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/01\/20130112_101637-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/01\/20130112_101637-1024x614.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou would&#8217;ve too! Look at that face!!!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SocImages News: A huge &#8220;thank you&#8221; to all of the nearly 30,000 readers who liked and shared our post The Balancing Act of Being Female; Or, Why Women Wear So Many Clothes! \u00a0I&#8217;m thrilled that it stuck such a nerve! In Twitter news, SocImages&#8217; account reached 10,000 followers! 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