Research
and Teaching Interests:
Women and Work, Feminism and Methodology, Feminist Theory,
Qualitative Methods, Micro-computing and Qualitative
Data Analysis
Book
Award:
Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the
Commercialization of Identity
Oxford University Press, 1996
Selected by Choice Magazine as one of the Outstanding
Academic Books for 1996.
Membership
in Professional Organizations:
Sociologists for Women in Society.
American Sociological Association.
National Women’s Studies Association.
Eastern Sociological Association.
New England Sociological Association.
Founder and National Director:
National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education.
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Selected Publications:
Books:
Forthcoming Books:
Cult of Thinness. Oxford University Press, 2005
The Practice of Qualitative Research (co-authored
with Patricia Leavy). Sage Pubilcations, 2005
Emergent Methods in Social Research ( co-edited
with Patricia Leavy) Sage Publications, 2005
Feminist Primer (co-authored with Patricia Leavy
), Sage Publications, 2005.
Japanese Version of : Am I Thin Enough Yet:
The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity.
forthcoming in 2005.
When Methods Meets Technology: Important Issues
in Qualitative Software Evolution. co- edited with
Raymond Maietta. Sage Publications, Inc. 2006
Handbook of Feminist Research. Sage Publications
(2005)
Published Books:
Hesse-Biber,
S. and Carter,
G. Working Women in America: Split Dreams.
2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hesse-Biber,
S. and Yaiser, M. (Editors). Feminist Perspectives in
Social Research.
Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hesse-Biber,
S. and Leavy, P. (Editors). Approaches
to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice.
Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hesse-Biber,
S. and Leckenby, D. (Editors). The
Status of Women in Catholic Higher Education: Border
work, Living Experience and Social Justice.
Lexington Books. 2003.
Hesse-Biber,
S. and Carter, G. Working
Women in America: Split Dreams. N.Y.: Oxford University
Press, 2000.
Hesse-Biber,
S., Lydenberg, R. and Gilmartin, C.(Editors). Feminist
Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary
Reader. Oxford University Press 1999.
Hesse-Biber,
S. . Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness
and the Commercialization of Identity. New York:
Oxford University Press,1997. (paperback edition)
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Software
Development and Publication:
HyperRESEARCH: A Computer Program for the Analysis of
Qualitative Daa: Manual and Software for MacIntosh and
Windows/IBM Version 2. With Paul Dupuis and T. Scott
Kinder
( Mountain View, CA. Sage Publications, 2000.) Forthcoming
Version 2.5 October 2002.
Website: researchware.com
Forthcoming:
HyperTranscribe.
(a
new excited transcribing tool).
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Published Articles:
Hesse-Biber,
S. and Carter, G. L. 2004. " Linking Qualitative and
Quantitative Analysis: The Example of Family Socialization
and Eating Disorders " In Empirical Approaches to
Sociology: A Collection of Classic and Contemporary
Readings. Allyn and Bacon.
Carter, G. L. and Hesse-Biber, S. 2004. Socialization
and the Production of Gender Inequality: The Influences
of Family, School, Peers, and the Media : In. Gregg
Lee Carter (ed.). Empirical Approaches to Sociology:
A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Readings.
Allyn and Bacon, 2004.
Robert E. Robertson, Gregg Lee Carter and Sharlene Hesse-Biber.
" Gender Inequality in the Workplace: The Example of
women in Management." In Gregg Lee Carter (ed.). Empirical
Approaches to Sociology: A Collection of Classic and
Contemporary Readings. Allyn and Bacon. 2004.
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Stephanie Howling, Patricia
Leavy and Meg Lovejoy. 2004. "Racial Identity and the
Development of Body Image Issues Among African American
Adolescent Girls." The Qualitative Report, Volume
9 Number 1, March 2004, pp. 49-79.
Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Gregg
Lee Carter. 2004. " A Brief History of Working Women
in America. in
Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee, Women’s Voices,
Feminist Visions, second edition (2004). pp. 317-331.
“
Feminism and Interdisciplinarity.” In Women in
Higher Educaton: Empowering Change. Edited by Melanie
McCoy and JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz. Greenwood Press, 2002.
“
Gender Inequality and Socialization: The Influences
of Family, School, Peers, and the Media. ( with G. Carter)”
In Empirical Approaches to Sociology, edited by Gregg
L. Carter. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 3rd Edition, 200l.
“
Family Socialization and Eating Disorders in College-Age
Women (with G. Carter) .” In Empirical Approaches
to Sociology edited by Gregg L. Carter Boston: Allyn
& Bacon, 3rd Edition , 2001.
“
Testing Hypotheses on Qualitative Data: The Use of HyperRESEARCH
Computer-Assisted Software.” (with Paul Dupuis).
Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 18, No.3,
Fall, 2000: 302-328.
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Book
Reviews:
Gregg Carter, " Empirical Approaches To Sociology:
Classic and Contemporary Readings, Macmillan, 1994.
In Contemporary Sociology, April, l995. Vol.
23 :177
Rachel
Kahn-Hut, Arlene Kaplan Daniels and Richard Colvard,
“Women and Work: Problems and Perspectives.”
Oxford University Press, 1982. In Contemporary Sociology.
Patricia
Jeffrey: “Migrants and Refugees: Muslim and Christian
Pakistani Families in Bristol.”
In Contemporary Sociology. September, 1977.
Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 560-561.
Reviewer:
Sex Roles, Social Problems, Contemporary Sociology
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