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Papers by Nancy Naples

Research paper thumbnail of Women's Activism and Globalization

Routledge eBooks, Apr 16, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The Empowerment of Women in India: Grassroots Women's Networks and the State. Sangeetha Purushothaman

American Journal of Sociology, Mar 1, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s

Contemporary Sociology, Nov 1, 2002

... VISTA Volunteers in Service to America xi Page 13. Office of the Hill Neighborhood Union in Ne... more ... VISTA Volunteers in Service to America xi Page 13. Office of the Hill Neighborhood Union in New Haven, Connecticut, summer 1965. (Courtesy of John Bancroft.) Page 14. Introduction During the summer of 1964, University ...

Research paper thumbnail of 6. Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the Heartland

New York University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Women at the Wall: A Study of Prisoners' Wives Doing Time on the Outside.Laura T. Fishman

American Journal of Sociology, Mar 1, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of The Gender Gap: Coalescing for Power

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, May 15, 2012

Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gitt... more Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gittell. Original published in 1984.

Research paper thumbnail of Activist Women: Conflicting Ideologies

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, May 15, 2012

Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gitt... more Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gittell. Original published in 1982.

Research paper thumbnail of Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez. By Kathleen Staudt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 184p. <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>55.00</mn><mi>c</mi><mi>l</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>t</mi><mi>h</mi><mo separator="true">,</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">55.00 cloth, </annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord">55.00</span><span class="mord mathnormal">c</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mord mathnormal">o</span><span class="mord mathnormal">t</span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mpunct">,</span></span></span></span>24.95 paper

Perspectives on Politics, Nov 23, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Pedagogical Practice and Teaching Intersectionality Intersectionally

Research paper thumbnail of Whose Feminism? Whose Dilemma?

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Apr 22, 2013

In “The Feminist Dilemma,” the central concern for Orit Avishai, Lynne Gerber, and Jennifer Randl... more In “The Feminist Dilemma,” the central concern for Orit Avishai, Lynne Gerber, and Jennifer Randles is how to navigate the mismatch between personal politics, critical political projects, and empirical findings. Since their personal politics are shaped by feminism, they begin by stating that “feminism can operate as a blinder, limiting our ability to see and interpret empirical realities that do not conform with feminist expectations” (Avishai et al. 2013a, 394). They illustrate this dilemma and the so-called blinding effect of feminism with three different case studies of conservative or “nonfeminist spaces” (ibid.). They see the source of the dilemma to be “feminism’s dual commitments as a political program and a system of knowledge production” (400). They also discuss their fear that there is a feminist gatekeeping process in which findings that do not accord with dominant feminist narratives would be criticized or dismissed. Their collaborative project to interrogate the socalled feminist dilemma leads them to conclude that the institutionalization of feminist knowledge might “subtly or overtly, encourage analyses that reinforce feminist orthodoxies” (398). The decision by JCE to feature this article, something that is unusual for the journal, is of interest to me in that I suspect that all ethnographers,

Research paper thumbnail of Feminist Methodology and Its Discontents1

SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Bringing Everyday Life to Policy Analysis

Journal of Poverty, 1998

... option in PROM-ISE JOBS which they initiated in October, 1989.~ The paid labor market is orga... more ... option in PROM-ISE JOBS which they initiated in October, 1989.~ The paid labor market is organized around a gender, racial, and regional division of labor (Amott and Matthaei ... Karen Janson complained about the low priority given to voluntary participants in PROMISE JOBS. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Strong Objectivity

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Jun 1, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Postmodernism & Social Inquiry

Clinical Sociology Review, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Analyzing Psychotherapy: A Social Role Perspective

Clinical Sociology Review, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women’s Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project

Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 5 Volume Set

Research paper thumbnail of Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research

Contemporary Sociology, Sep 1, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States. Edited by Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+494. $55.00

American Journal of Sociology, Jul 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Economic Restructuring and Racialization: Incorporation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the Rural Midwest. Working Paper

An 8-year ethnographic study in two rural Iowa towns examined the incorporation of recently arriv... more An 8-year ethnographic study in two rural Iowa towns examined the incorporation of recently arrived Mexicans and Mexican Americans into the social, economic, and political life of the community. Relocating to work in a nearby food processing plant, the newcomers altered the ethnic composition of this formerly homogeneous area. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews, informal conversations, observation of community events, and review of government documents and local newspapers. Conceptual frames for the study include modes of incorporation, racial formation and racialization, and social regulation. The experiences of Mexican and Mexican American newcomers demonstrate how local social regulatory activities circumscribe the ways in which these new residents can make claims as permanent members of the community. These social regulatory activities construct the racialized, gendered, and class-specific grounds on which Mexican Americans can earn a living wage, access social services and education, and gain a political voice. Various experiences of the newcomers are described, including recruitment to the food processing plant, poor working conditions, disadvantages arising from limited English proficiency, local resistance to providing English as a second language classes or offering Spanish in school, lack of proficient translators in the school and community, harassment by the police and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, lack of affordable housing, harassment and discrimination during use of health and social services, biased attitudes of educators, and community fears about Hispanic youth. (Contains 116 references.) (SV)

Research paper thumbnail of Women's Activism and Globalization

Routledge eBooks, Apr 16, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The Empowerment of Women in India: Grassroots Women's Networks and the State. Sangeetha Purushothaman

American Journal of Sociology, Mar 1, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s

Contemporary Sociology, Nov 1, 2002

... VISTA Volunteers in Service to America xi Page 13. Office of the Hill Neighborhood Union in Ne... more ... VISTA Volunteers in Service to America xi Page 13. Office of the Hill Neighborhood Union in New Haven, Connecticut, summer 1965. (Courtesy of John Bancroft.) Page 14. Introduction During the summer of 1964, University ...

Research paper thumbnail of 6. Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the Heartland

New York University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Women at the Wall: A Study of Prisoners' Wives Doing Time on the Outside.Laura T. Fishman

American Journal of Sociology, Mar 1, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of The Gender Gap: Coalescing for Power

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, May 15, 2012

Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gitt... more Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gittell. Original published in 1984.

Research paper thumbnail of Activist Women: Conflicting Ideologies

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, May 15, 2012

Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gitt... more Reprinted in: Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marylin Gittell, ed. Kathe Newman and Ross Gittell. Original published in 1982.

Research paper thumbnail of Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez. By Kathleen Staudt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 184p. <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>55.00</mn><mi>c</mi><mi>l</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>t</mi><mi>h</mi><mo separator="true">,</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">55.00 cloth, </annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord">55.00</span><span class="mord mathnormal">c</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.01968em;">l</span><span class="mord mathnormal">o</span><span class="mord mathnormal">t</span><span class="mord mathnormal">h</span><span class="mpunct">,</span></span></span></span>24.95 paper

Perspectives on Politics, Nov 23, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Pedagogical Practice and Teaching Intersectionality Intersectionally

Research paper thumbnail of Whose Feminism? Whose Dilemma?

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Apr 22, 2013

In “The Feminist Dilemma,” the central concern for Orit Avishai, Lynne Gerber, and Jennifer Randl... more In “The Feminist Dilemma,” the central concern for Orit Avishai, Lynne Gerber, and Jennifer Randles is how to navigate the mismatch between personal politics, critical political projects, and empirical findings. Since their personal politics are shaped by feminism, they begin by stating that “feminism can operate as a blinder, limiting our ability to see and interpret empirical realities that do not conform with feminist expectations” (Avishai et al. 2013a, 394). They illustrate this dilemma and the so-called blinding effect of feminism with three different case studies of conservative or “nonfeminist spaces” (ibid.). They see the source of the dilemma to be “feminism’s dual commitments as a political program and a system of knowledge production” (400). They also discuss their fear that there is a feminist gatekeeping process in which findings that do not accord with dominant feminist narratives would be criticized or dismissed. Their collaborative project to interrogate the socalled feminist dilemma leads them to conclude that the institutionalization of feminist knowledge might “subtly or overtly, encourage analyses that reinforce feminist orthodoxies” (398). The decision by JCE to feature this article, something that is unusual for the journal, is of interest to me in that I suspect that all ethnographers,

Research paper thumbnail of Feminist Methodology and Its Discontents1

SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Bringing Everyday Life to Policy Analysis

Journal of Poverty, 1998

... option in PROM-ISE JOBS which they initiated in October, 1989.~ The paid labor market is orga... more ... option in PROM-ISE JOBS which they initiated in October, 1989.~ The paid labor market is organized around a gender, racial, and regional division of labor (Amott and Matthaei ... Karen Janson complained about the low priority given to voluntary participants in PROMISE JOBS. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Strong Objectivity

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Jun 1, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Postmodernism & Social Inquiry

Clinical Sociology Review, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Analyzing Psychotherapy: A Social Role Perspective

Clinical Sociology Review, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Negotiating the Politics of Experiential Learning in Women’s Studies: Lessons from the Community Action Project

Duke University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 5 Volume Set

Research paper thumbnail of Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research

Contemporary Sociology, Sep 1, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverished People in the United States. Edited by Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+494. $55.00

American Journal of Sociology, Jul 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Economic Restructuring and Racialization: Incorporation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the Rural Midwest. Working Paper

An 8-year ethnographic study in two rural Iowa towns examined the incorporation of recently arriv... more An 8-year ethnographic study in two rural Iowa towns examined the incorporation of recently arrived Mexicans and Mexican Americans into the social, economic, and political life of the community. Relocating to work in a nearby food processing plant, the newcomers altered the ethnic composition of this formerly homogeneous area. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews, informal conversations, observation of community events, and review of government documents and local newspapers. Conceptual frames for the study include modes of incorporation, racial formation and racialization, and social regulation. The experiences of Mexican and Mexican American newcomers demonstrate how local social regulatory activities circumscribe the ways in which these new residents can make claims as permanent members of the community. These social regulatory activities construct the racialized, gendered, and class-specific grounds on which Mexican Americans can earn a living wage, access social services and education, and gain a political voice. Various experiences of the newcomers are described, including recruitment to the food processing plant, poor working conditions, disadvantages arising from limited English proficiency, local resistance to providing English as a second language classes or offering Spanish in school, lack of proficient translators in the school and community, harassment by the police and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, lack of affordable housing, harassment and discrimination during use of health and social services, biased attitudes of educators, and community fears about Hispanic youth. (Contains 116 references.) (SV)