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JANE WARD
Department of Feminist Studies University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003 |
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POSITIONS
Current:
Former:
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Queer studies; feminist studies; critical heterosexuality studies; cultural studies
PUBLICATIONS
Books
* 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in LGBT Studies
Edited Special Issues
Articles, Chapters, and Essays
“The Revolution Will Not Be Exhausted: Building the Center for Feminist Futures”. Feminist Review 136 n1:169-176. 2024
“Introduction: Heteropessimism” with Annabel Barry and Caroline Godard, Post45 Contemporaries
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/heteropessimism/ 2023
“A Tragédia da Heterossexualidade - Uma conversa com Jane Ward”. REBEH: Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura v6 n19 121-140
“Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture. V48 n2. 2023.
“The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics” Shantel Buggs and Trevor Hoppe (eds) Unsafe Words: Queer Perspectives on Consent in the #MeToo Era. Rutgers University Press. In press. 2022.
“Heterosexuality,” Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Press, 2021. (editors: Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Amber Musser, Karma Chavez, Mishuana Goeman, Shona Jackson and Kyla Wazana Tompkins). 2021.
Ward, Jane. “The Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers” In D’Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, and Kristen Schilt (eds) Other, Please Specify:___________: Queer Methods in Sociology. (UC Press) 2018: 51-66.
Ward, Jane. “Bad Girls: On Being the Accused.” Where Freedom Starts: Sex, Power, Violence and #metoo. Verso Books. 2018
Ward, Jane. “Children’s Gender Self-Determination: A Practical Guide” in Wade, Lisa Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen (Eds.) Assigned: Life With Gender. W.W. Norton. In press. 2016.
Ward, Jane. “Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. 44.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2016).
Ward, Jane. “Get Your Gender Binary Off My Childhood!: Towards a Movement for Children’s Gender Self-Determination.” In Fiona Green and May Friedman (eds) Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices. 2013.
Ward, Jane. “Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in Queer Utopia.” In Angela Jones (ed) A Critical Inquiry Into Queer Utopia, Palgrave. 2013. pp. 231-244.
Ward, Jane. “Queer Feminist Pigs: A Spectator’s Manifesta.” In Tristan Taormino, Penley, Constance, Mireille Miller Young, and Celine Parrenas Shimizu (eds.) The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. The Feminist Press, CUNY. 2013. pp. 130-139
Ward, Jane and Susan Mann. “Postmodernism, Poststructuralism & Queer Theory.” Doing Feminist Theory: Fighting for Bread and Roses, edited by Susan Mann. Oxford University Press. 2012.
Ward, Jane. “Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility.” Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions, edited by Sally Hines and Yvette Taylor. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Invited chapter. 2012.
Ward, Jane “Queer Pedagogies and the Specter of the Maternal.” In Deborah Byrd and Fiona Green (eds.) Maternal Pedagogies: In and Out of the Classroom. Ontario: Demeter Press. 2011.
Stone, Amy and Jane Ward. “From ‘Black People Are Not A Homosexual Act’ to ‘Gay is the New Black’: Mapping White Uses of Blackness in Modern Gay Rights Campaigns in the United States.” Social Identities 17.5. 2011.
Ward, Jane. “Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and the Collective Work of Transgression.” Sexualities. 13 (2): 236-254. 2010.
Luft, Rachel and Jane Ward. “Toward an Intersectionality Just Out of Reach: Confronting Challenges to Intersectional Practice.” In Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos (eds.) Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally: Advances in Gender Research Vol. 13. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishers. 2009.
Ward, Jane. “Diversity Discourse and Multi-Identity Work in Lesbian and Gay Organizations.” In Jo Reger, Daniel Myers, and Rachel Einwohner (eds.) Identity Work in Social Movements: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in Activist Environments, 233-255. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008.
Ward, Jane. “White Normativity: The Cultural Dimensions of Whiteness in a Racially Diverse LGBT Organization.” Sociological Perspectives 51(3): 563-586. 2008.
Ward, Jane. “Dude-Sex: White Masculinities and ‘Authentic’ Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex With Dudes.” Sexualities 11(4): 415-435. 2008.
Ward, Jane. “Transmanner, femmes, und die arbeit, das girl zu sein.” [“Transmen, Femmes, and the Work of Being the Girl”] In Renate Lorenz and Brigitta Kuster (eds.) Sexuell Arbeiten: Eine queere Perspektive auf Arbeit und Prekaras Leben, 240-258. Berlin: b_books. 2007.
Ward, Jane. “Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship Between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures.” In Mindy Stombler et al (eds.) Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, 31-37. New York: Allyn and Bacon. 2004.
Ward, Jane. “‘Not All Differences Are Created Equal:’ Multiple Jeopardy in a Gendered Organization.” Gender & Society 18(1): 82-102. 2004
Ward, Jane. “Producing Pride in West Hollywood: A Queer Cultural Capital for Queers With Cultural Capital.” Sexualities 6(1): 65-94. 2003.
Ward, Jane. “A New Kind of AIDS: Adapting to the Success of Protease Inhibitors in an AIDS Care Organization.” Qualitative Sociology 23(3): 247-265. 2000.
Ward, Jane. “Queer Sexism: Rethinking Gay Men and Masculinity.” In Peter Nardi (ed.) Gay Masculinities, 153-175. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999.
Book Reviews
Review of Lionel Cantu, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (Routledge, 2009) Gender & Society.
Review of CJ Pascoe, Dude You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (University of California Press, 2007) Social Forces 88(1). 2009.
Review of Paul Robinson, Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Sexualities 9(4): 495-497. 2006.
Review of Esther Newton, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Duke University Press, 2000). In Gender & Society 15(6): 936-938. 2001.
BLOGS
"Bad Girls: On Being the Accused" Bully Bloggers. https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/bad-girls-on-being-the-accused/
December 2017
"Thinking Bad Sex" Bully Bloggers. https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/thinking-bad-sex/ November 2017
“Advice from an Outlaw Writer.” Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/03/04/three-principles-effective-writing-system-essay March 4, 2016
Co-founder, with Tey Meadow (Harvard) and C.J. Pascoe (University of Oregon), sociology of sexualities blog Social Inqueery. http://socialinqueery.com/2012/01/13/welcome-to-social-inqueery-2/
Founder, Feminist Pigs blog. Has been used in course readers, as required Blackboard reading, and read in over 90 countries. http://feministpigs.blogspot.com
INVITED LECTURES
March 7, 2019. “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality," Columbia University, March 7, 2019
UCR Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture. “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” UC Riverside. May 16, 2018.
KEYNOTE. “From Sexual Predation to Spiritual Transformation (and Back Again?): Mapping the Evolution of the Global Seduction Industry.” American Men’s Studies Association 2018 Annual Conference. March 23, 2018. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Race and Sexual Fluidity.” Sexuality in African American Communities and Cultures Faculty-Graduate Seminar. Princeton University. April, 4, 2017. http://aas.princeton.edu/blog/fac-grad-sem/2016-2017/
“The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh. March 16, 2017. http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/event/lecture-jane-ward-uc-riverside-tragedy-heterosexuality
“Not Gay,” Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Colloquium speaker, University of Pittsburgh. March 15, 2017. http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/event/discussion-based-colloquium-prof-jane-ward-her-book-not-gay
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Butler University (Indianapolis, IN). February 27, 2017.
“The Tragedy Of Heterosexuality” Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia). February 24, 2017.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” University of Virginia. February 22, 2017.
“Why Summer is the Queerest Season.” Invited public reading. West Hollywood Public Library. January 12, 2017.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Indiana University Bloomington. November 10, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” University of Colorado Boulder. September 15, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” CSU San Marcos. April 26, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Seattle University. April 11, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” University of Illinois at Chicago. March 30, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Columbia University. March 23, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Wake Forest University. March 21, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Sonoma State University. February 29, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” UT Austin, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. February 25, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” CSU Fullerton. February 9, 2016.
“Not Gay: Straight White Men, Homosexual Sex, and the Making of Heteromasculinity.” UCR Palm Desert Center. January 26, 2016
“Haze Him!: White Heteromasculinity, Anal Resilience, and the Erotic Spectacle of Repulsion.” New York University. November 10, 2015.
Reading from Not Gay. Chaucer’s Bookstore. Santa Barbara, CA. October 19, 2015.
Reading from Not Gay. Modern Times Bookstore. San Francisco, CA. September 11, 2015.
Reading from Not Gay. Skylight Books. Los Angeles, CA. September 8, 2015.
"NOT GAY: Straight White Men, Homosexual Sex, and the Making of Heteromasculinity.” UC Santa Barbara. April 13, 2015.
“NOT GAY: Straight White Men, Homosexual Sex, and the Making of Heteromasculinity.” Grand Valley State University. Allendale, Michigan. April 10, 2015.
“Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. May 2, 2014.
Keynote. “Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” Bodies of Knowledge Symposium. University of South Carolina Upstate. Spartanburg, SC. April 11, 2014.
“Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” SUNY New Paltz. New Paltz, NY. April 3, 2014.
“Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” Williams College. Williamstown, MA. September 25, 2013.
“It’s Not a Gay Thing, It’s a Guy Thing!: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” The University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Canada. April 5, 2013.
“It’s Not a Gay Thing, It’s a Guy Thing!: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. April 2, 2013.
Keynote. “What a Queer Way to Raise a Child!” International Conference on Mothering, Education and Maternal Pedagogies. Toronto, Canada. October 21, 2011.
“What Happened to the Bisexual Pride Movement, and Do We Still Need One?” Los Angeles Bisexual Task Force. Pasadena, CA. July 2011
“Not Gay: Heteroflexibility and the New Sexual Binary.” Department of Sociology. UCR. February 28, 2011.
“Queer Pedagogies: Queering Women’s Studies.” Department of Women’s Studies, University of New Orleans. March 2009.
“Femme Labor and the Production of Trans Masculinity.” Department of Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series. University of California, Riverside. April 2007.
“Being the Girl, Making the Man: Towards a Queer Theory of Gender Labor.” Carleton University. Ottawa, Canada. March 2007.
“Femme Labor and the Production of Trans Masculinity.” Normal Love Exhibition and Lecture Series. Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany. March 2007.
“Down Low and Other Heterosexualities: A Queer Disavowal.” Department of Sociology Colloquium. University of California, Riverside. April 2005.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Ward, Jane. “When Sex Is Doomed: Eugenics, Rape, and Heterosexuality in the 20th Century.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Atlanta, Georgia. 2018.
“Feminist Disruption, Hetero Adaptation” Paper presented at Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association. Philadelphia PA, 2018.
Ward, Jane. “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montreal, Quebec. August 12, 2017.
Ward, Jane. “Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, Washington. August 21, 2016.
“An Introduction to Critical Straightness Studies.” UC Santa Barbara Sociology Department 50th Anniversary Research Conference. Santa Barbara, CA. February 14, 2015.
Panelist. “Is Porn Still Fun?” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. November 7, 2014.
“If Foucault Parented: Why Letting Children ‘Be Who They Are’ Is Not the Queer Goal.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Denver, CO. 2012.
“The Heteroflexible Anus: How Straight White Men are Redefining the Meaning of Anal Penetration.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV. 2011.
“What We Must Do for Our Country: Necessary Homosexuality in the Military and Beyond.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. San Antonio, Texas. 2010
“Femmes, Transmen, and the Labor of Forgetting.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. November 2009.
“Sex Without Meaning: Necessary, Accidental, and False Homosexualities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco. August 2009.
“Straight White Dudes: Unpacking the Co-Constitutive Relationship Between Racial and Sexual Identities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland, OR. April 2008.
“Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and the Collective Work of Gendering.” 2nd Paper presented at the Second Annual Queer Studies Easter Symposium. Mexico City. March 2008.
“The Making of Dude-Sex.” Paper presented at the 2007 Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, USC. October 2007.
“Femme Labor and the Production of Trans Masculinity.” Paper presented at ‘Intimate Labors: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Domestic, Care, and Sex Work.’ UC Santa Barbara. October 2007.
“Is There a Femme Politics?” Paper co-presented with Margaux Cowden at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Oakland, CA. April 2007
“It Takes a Village to Do and Undo Gender: Towards a Theory of Gender Labor.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada. August 2006.
“Heterosexuality on the Edge: Rethinking the Relationship Between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Montreal, Canada. August 2006.
"Institutionalizing Intersectionality: How the Mainstream Obsession with Diversity is Transforming Lesbian and Gay Organizations.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Hollywood, CA. April 2006
“Butch/Trans Masculinity and the Gender Labor of Femme Partners.” Paper presented at ‘Queer Scapes: The 2005 Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference.’ UCLA/USC, Los Angeles. November 2005.
“STR8 Dude Seeks Same: Beyond ‘Identity vs. Practice’ in the Sociology of Sexualities” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia. August 2005.
“Feminism: Intersections or Cross Purposes? Feminist, Queer and Trans Theories and Politics.” Presented at the ‘Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice Conference.’ The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. May 2005.
“Why Being Gay is (Still) a White Thing: The Reproduction of Whiteness in the Lesbian and Gay Movement.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland, OR. April 2005.
“If Social Movements Are Gendered, Aren’t They Also Raced?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August 2004.
“‘Not at Risk?’: The Gendered and Racialized Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Lesbians of Color.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL. August 2002.
“The Pride Divide as a Class Divide: Queer Cultural Capital and the Production of Large, Urban Pride Festivals.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA. August, 2001.
“Queer Sexism: Rethinking Gay Men and Masculinity.” QGRAD: A Conference on Sexuality and Gender. University of California, Los Angeles. 2000.
“Queer Sexism: Rethinking Gay Men and Masculinity.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland, OR. April, 1999.
“The Effects of Medical Technology on the Meaning of AIDS Care.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August, 1998.
TEACHING
Graduate Courses, UC Riverside:
Professionalization Seminar
Queer Theory
Identity Movements
Undergraduate Courses, UC Riverside:
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality
Critical Approaches to Heterosexuality
Feminist Epistemologies
Witches, Magic, & Religion
Love, Desire, & Lesbian Sexuality
Queer Identities and Movements
Undergraduate Courses, UC Santa Barbara:
MOST Undergraduate Research Seminar
Feminist and Antiracist Research Methods
Theory of Gender Inequality
Queer Communities
Sexual Politics
Sociology of the Family
Current:
- Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 2022-
Former:
- Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside, 2021-2022
- Program Chair, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex, and Transgender Studies, UC Riverside, 2015-2022
- Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside 2016-2022
- Vice Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside, 2015-2018
- Acting Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside, Fall 2014
- Associate Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside 2009-2016
- Assistant Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside 2007-2009
- Affiliated Faculty: Media and Cultural Studies, Labor Studies
- Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of California, Riverside 2004-2007
- Graduate Director, Department of Sociology, 2006-2007
- Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara 2003-2004
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Queer studies; feminist studies; critical heterosexuality studies; cultural studies
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- The Witch Studies Reader (in press). With Soma Chaudhuri (Eds). Duke University Press. 2025
- The Tragedy of Heterosexuality. New York University Press (Sexual Cultures Series). 2020.
- Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men. New York University Press (Sexual Cultures Series). 2015.
* 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in LGBT Studies
- Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. 2008.
Edited Special Issues
- “Heteropessimism” with Annabel Barry and Caroline Godard. Post45 Contemporaries
- https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/heteropessimism/ 2023
- Ward, Jane and Beth Schneider (eds.) “Introduction: The Reaches of Heteronormativity” Special Issue on Sexualities and Heteronormativity. Gender & Society 23(4): 433-439. 2009.
Articles, Chapters, and Essays
“The Revolution Will Not Be Exhausted: Building the Center for Feminist Futures”. Feminist Review 136 n1:169-176. 2024
“Introduction: Heteropessimism” with Annabel Barry and Caroline Godard, Post45 Contemporaries
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/heteropessimism/ 2023
“A Tragédia da Heterossexualidade - Uma conversa com Jane Ward”. REBEH: Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura v6 n19 121-140
“Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture. V48 n2. 2023.
“The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics” Shantel Buggs and Trevor Hoppe (eds) Unsafe Words: Queer Perspectives on Consent in the #MeToo Era. Rutgers University Press. In press. 2022.
“Heterosexuality,” Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Press, 2021. (editors: Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Amber Musser, Karma Chavez, Mishuana Goeman, Shona Jackson and Kyla Wazana Tompkins). 2021.
Ward, Jane. “The Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers” In D’Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, and Kristen Schilt (eds) Other, Please Specify:___________: Queer Methods in Sociology. (UC Press) 2018: 51-66.
Ward, Jane. “Bad Girls: On Being the Accused.” Where Freedom Starts: Sex, Power, Violence and #metoo. Verso Books. 2018
Ward, Jane. “Children’s Gender Self-Determination: A Practical Guide” in Wade, Lisa Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen (Eds.) Assigned: Life With Gender. W.W. Norton. In press. 2016.
Ward, Jane. “Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. 44.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2016).
Ward, Jane. “Get Your Gender Binary Off My Childhood!: Towards a Movement for Children’s Gender Self-Determination.” In Fiona Green and May Friedman (eds) Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices. 2013.
Ward, Jane. “Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in Queer Utopia.” In Angela Jones (ed) A Critical Inquiry Into Queer Utopia, Palgrave. 2013. pp. 231-244.
Ward, Jane. “Queer Feminist Pigs: A Spectator’s Manifesta.” In Tristan Taormino, Penley, Constance, Mireille Miller Young, and Celine Parrenas Shimizu (eds.) The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. The Feminist Press, CUNY. 2013. pp. 130-139
Ward, Jane and Susan Mann. “Postmodernism, Poststructuralism & Queer Theory.” Doing Feminist Theory: Fighting for Bread and Roses, edited by Susan Mann. Oxford University Press. 2012.
- REPRINTED in Susan Mann and Ashly Patterson (eds) Reading Feminist Theory: From Modernity to Postmodernity. Oxford University Press. 2015. pp. 300-308
Ward, Jane. “Born This Way: Congenital Heterosexuals and the Making of Heteroflexibility.” Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions, edited by Sally Hines and Yvette Taylor. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Invited chapter. 2012.
Ward, Jane “Queer Pedagogies and the Specter of the Maternal.” In Deborah Byrd and Fiona Green (eds.) Maternal Pedagogies: In and Out of the Classroom. Ontario: Demeter Press. 2011.
Stone, Amy and Jane Ward. “From ‘Black People Are Not A Homosexual Act’ to ‘Gay is the New Black’: Mapping White Uses of Blackness in Modern Gay Rights Campaigns in the United States.” Social Identities 17.5. 2011.
Ward, Jane. “Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and the Collective Work of Transgression.” Sexualities. 13 (2): 236-254. 2010.
- REPRINTED in Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care, edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Stanford University Press, 2010. pp. 78-94
Luft, Rachel and Jane Ward. “Toward an Intersectionality Just Out of Reach: Confronting Challenges to Intersectional Practice.” In Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos (eds.) Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally: Advances in Gender Research Vol. 13. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishers. 2009.
Ward, Jane. “Diversity Discourse and Multi-Identity Work in Lesbian and Gay Organizations.” In Jo Reger, Daniel Myers, and Rachel Einwohner (eds.) Identity Work in Social Movements: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in Activist Environments, 233-255. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008.
Ward, Jane. “White Normativity: The Cultural Dimensions of Whiteness in a Racially Diverse LGBT Organization.” Sociological Perspectives 51(3): 563-586. 2008.
Ward, Jane. “Dude-Sex: White Masculinities and ‘Authentic’ Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex With Dudes.” Sexualities 11(4): 415-435. 2008.
- REPRINTED in Michael Kimmel, The Gendered Society Reader, 5th Edition. Oxford University Press. 2015
- REPRINTED in CJ Pascoe and Tristan Bridges, Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity. Oxford University Press. 2015: 402-411.
Ward, Jane. “Transmanner, femmes, und die arbeit, das girl zu sein.” [“Transmen, Femmes, and the Work of Being the Girl”] In Renate Lorenz and Brigitta Kuster (eds.) Sexuell Arbeiten: Eine queere Perspektive auf Arbeit und Prekaras Leben, 240-258. Berlin: b_books. 2007.
Ward, Jane. “Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship Between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures.” In Mindy Stombler et al (eds.) Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, 31-37. New York: Allyn and Bacon. 2004.
- REPRINTED in Mindy Stombler et al (eds.) Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, Second Edition, 31-37. New York: Allyn and Bacon. 2007.
- REPRINTED in Mindy Stombler et al (eds.) Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, Third Edition. New York: Allyn and Bacon. 2010.
- REPRINTED in Mindy Stombler et al (eds.) Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, Fourth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton. 2013
- REPRINTED in Michael Kimmel, The Gendered Society Reader, 5th Edition. Oxford University Press. 2013
Ward, Jane. “‘Not All Differences Are Created Equal:’ Multiple Jeopardy in a Gendered Organization.” Gender & Society 18(1): 82-102. 2004
- REPRINTED in Joan Z. Spade and Catherine G. Valentine (eds.) The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, 89-98. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. 2008.
- REPRINTED in Marcia Texler Segal and Theresa A. Martinez (eds.) Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape, 194-208. Cambridge: Oxford University Press. 2007.
Ward, Jane. “Producing Pride in West Hollywood: A Queer Cultural Capital for Queers With Cultural Capital.” Sexualities 6(1): 65-94. 2003.
Ward, Jane. “A New Kind of AIDS: Adapting to the Success of Protease Inhibitors in an AIDS Care Organization.” Qualitative Sociology 23(3): 247-265. 2000.
Ward, Jane. “Queer Sexism: Rethinking Gay Men and Masculinity.” In Peter Nardi (ed.) Gay Masculinities, 153-175. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999.
Book Reviews
Review of Lionel Cantu, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (Routledge, 2009) Gender & Society.
Review of CJ Pascoe, Dude You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (University of California Press, 2007) Social Forces 88(1). 2009.
Review of Paul Robinson, Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Sexualities 9(4): 495-497. 2006.
Review of Esther Newton, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Duke University Press, 2000). In Gender & Society 15(6): 936-938. 2001.
BLOGS
"Bad Girls: On Being the Accused" Bully Bloggers. https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/bad-girls-on-being-the-accused/
December 2017
"Thinking Bad Sex" Bully Bloggers. https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/thinking-bad-sex/ November 2017
“Advice from an Outlaw Writer.” Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/03/04/three-principles-effective-writing-system-essay March 4, 2016
Co-founder, with Tey Meadow (Harvard) and C.J. Pascoe (University of Oregon), sociology of sexualities blog Social Inqueery. http://socialinqueery.com/2012/01/13/welcome-to-social-inqueery-2/
Founder, Feminist Pigs blog. Has been used in course readers, as required Blackboard reading, and read in over 90 countries. http://feministpigs.blogspot.com
INVITED LECTURES
March 7, 2019. “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality," Columbia University, March 7, 2019
UCR Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture. “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” UC Riverside. May 16, 2018.
KEYNOTE. “From Sexual Predation to Spiritual Transformation (and Back Again?): Mapping the Evolution of the Global Seduction Industry.” American Men’s Studies Association 2018 Annual Conference. March 23, 2018. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Race and Sexual Fluidity.” Sexuality in African American Communities and Cultures Faculty-Graduate Seminar. Princeton University. April, 4, 2017. http://aas.princeton.edu/blog/fac-grad-sem/2016-2017/
“The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh. March 16, 2017. http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/event/lecture-jane-ward-uc-riverside-tragedy-heterosexuality
“Not Gay,” Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Colloquium speaker, University of Pittsburgh. March 15, 2017. http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/event/discussion-based-colloquium-prof-jane-ward-her-book-not-gay
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Butler University (Indianapolis, IN). February 27, 2017.
“The Tragedy Of Heterosexuality” Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia). February 24, 2017.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” University of Virginia. February 22, 2017.
“Why Summer is the Queerest Season.” Invited public reading. West Hollywood Public Library. January 12, 2017.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Indiana University Bloomington. November 10, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” University of Colorado Boulder. September 15, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” CSU San Marcos. April 26, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Seattle University. April 11, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” University of Illinois at Chicago. March 30, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Columbia University. March 23, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Wake Forest University. March 21, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Sonoma State University. February 29, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” UT Austin, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. February 25, 2016.
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” CSU Fullerton. February 9, 2016.
“Not Gay: Straight White Men, Homosexual Sex, and the Making of Heteromasculinity.” UCR Palm Desert Center. January 26, 2016
“Haze Him!: White Heteromasculinity, Anal Resilience, and the Erotic Spectacle of Repulsion.” New York University. November 10, 2015.
Reading from Not Gay. Chaucer’s Bookstore. Santa Barbara, CA. October 19, 2015.
Reading from Not Gay. Modern Times Bookstore. San Francisco, CA. September 11, 2015.
Reading from Not Gay. Skylight Books. Los Angeles, CA. September 8, 2015.
"NOT GAY: Straight White Men, Homosexual Sex, and the Making of Heteromasculinity.” UC Santa Barbara. April 13, 2015.
“NOT GAY: Straight White Men, Homosexual Sex, and the Making of Heteromasculinity.” Grand Valley State University. Allendale, Michigan. April 10, 2015.
“Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. May 2, 2014.
Keynote. “Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” Bodies of Knowledge Symposium. University of South Carolina Upstate. Spartanburg, SC. April 11, 2014.
“Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” SUNY New Paltz. New Paltz, NY. April 3, 2014.
“Not Gay: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” Williams College. Williamstown, MA. September 25, 2013.
“It’s Not a Gay Thing, It’s a Guy Thing!: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” The University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Canada. April 5, 2013.
“It’s Not a Gay Thing, It’s a Guy Thing!: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the Remaking of Homosexual Sex.” The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. April 2, 2013.
Keynote. “What a Queer Way to Raise a Child!” International Conference on Mothering, Education and Maternal Pedagogies. Toronto, Canada. October 21, 2011.
“What Happened to the Bisexual Pride Movement, and Do We Still Need One?” Los Angeles Bisexual Task Force. Pasadena, CA. July 2011
“Not Gay: Heteroflexibility and the New Sexual Binary.” Department of Sociology. UCR. February 28, 2011.
“Queer Pedagogies: Queering Women’s Studies.” Department of Women’s Studies, University of New Orleans. March 2009.
“Femme Labor and the Production of Trans Masculinity.” Department of Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series. University of California, Riverside. April 2007.
“Being the Girl, Making the Man: Towards a Queer Theory of Gender Labor.” Carleton University. Ottawa, Canada. March 2007.
“Femme Labor and the Production of Trans Masculinity.” Normal Love Exhibition and Lecture Series. Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany. March 2007.
“Down Low and Other Heterosexualities: A Queer Disavowal.” Department of Sociology Colloquium. University of California, Riverside. April 2005.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Ward, Jane. “When Sex Is Doomed: Eugenics, Rape, and Heterosexuality in the 20th Century.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Atlanta, Georgia. 2018.
“Feminist Disruption, Hetero Adaptation” Paper presented at Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association. Philadelphia PA, 2018.
Ward, Jane. “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montreal, Quebec. August 12, 2017.
Ward, Jane. “Dyke Methods: A Meditation on Queer Studies and the Gay Men Who Hate It.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, Washington. August 21, 2016.
“An Introduction to Critical Straightness Studies.” UC Santa Barbara Sociology Department 50th Anniversary Research Conference. Santa Barbara, CA. February 14, 2015.
Panelist. “Is Porn Still Fun?” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. November 7, 2014.
“If Foucault Parented: Why Letting Children ‘Be Who They Are’ Is Not the Queer Goal.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Denver, CO. 2012.
“The Heteroflexible Anus: How Straight White Men are Redefining the Meaning of Anal Penetration.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV. 2011.
“What We Must Do for Our Country: Necessary Homosexuality in the Military and Beyond.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. San Antonio, Texas. 2010
“Femmes, Transmen, and the Labor of Forgetting.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. November 2009.
“Sex Without Meaning: Necessary, Accidental, and False Homosexualities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco. August 2009.
“Straight White Dudes: Unpacking the Co-Constitutive Relationship Between Racial and Sexual Identities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland, OR. April 2008.
“Gender Labor: Transmen, Femmes, and the Collective Work of Gendering.” 2nd Paper presented at the Second Annual Queer Studies Easter Symposium. Mexico City. March 2008.
“The Making of Dude-Sex.” Paper presented at the 2007 Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, USC. October 2007.
“Femme Labor and the Production of Trans Masculinity.” Paper presented at ‘Intimate Labors: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Domestic, Care, and Sex Work.’ UC Santa Barbara. October 2007.
“Is There a Femme Politics?” Paper co-presented with Margaux Cowden at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Oakland, CA. April 2007
“It Takes a Village to Do and Undo Gender: Towards a Theory of Gender Labor.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada. August 2006.
“Heterosexuality on the Edge: Rethinking the Relationship Between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Montreal, Canada. August 2006.
"Institutionalizing Intersectionality: How the Mainstream Obsession with Diversity is Transforming Lesbian and Gay Organizations.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Hollywood, CA. April 2006
“Butch/Trans Masculinity and the Gender Labor of Femme Partners.” Paper presented at ‘Queer Scapes: The 2005 Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference.’ UCLA/USC, Los Angeles. November 2005.
“STR8 Dude Seeks Same: Beyond ‘Identity vs. Practice’ in the Sociology of Sexualities” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia. August 2005.
“Feminism: Intersections or Cross Purposes? Feminist, Queer and Trans Theories and Politics.” Presented at the ‘Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice Conference.’ The Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. May 2005.
“Why Being Gay is (Still) a White Thing: The Reproduction of Whiteness in the Lesbian and Gay Movement.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland, OR. April 2005.
“If Social Movements Are Gendered, Aren’t They Also Raced?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August 2004.
“‘Not at Risk?’: The Gendered and Racialized Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Lesbians of Color.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL. August 2002.
“The Pride Divide as a Class Divide: Queer Cultural Capital and the Production of Large, Urban Pride Festivals.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA. August, 2001.
“Queer Sexism: Rethinking Gay Men and Masculinity.” QGRAD: A Conference on Sexuality and Gender. University of California, Los Angeles. 2000.
“Queer Sexism: Rethinking Gay Men and Masculinity.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association. Portland, OR. April, 1999.
“The Effects of Medical Technology on the Meaning of AIDS Care.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August, 1998.
TEACHING
Graduate Courses, UC Riverside:
Professionalization Seminar
Queer Theory
Identity Movements
Undergraduate Courses, UC Riverside:
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality
Critical Approaches to Heterosexuality
Feminist Epistemologies
Witches, Magic, & Religion
Love, Desire, & Lesbian Sexuality
Queer Identities and Movements
Undergraduate Courses, UC Santa Barbara:
MOST Undergraduate Research Seminar
Feminist and Antiracist Research Methods
Theory of Gender Inequality
Queer Communities
Sexual Politics
Sociology of the Family
