Areas of interest include social inequality; intersections of race, class, and gender; feminist theory & liberation sociology; poverty; urban health & education; life course studies; visual sociology; service learning & civic engagement in secondary education; sociology of sport; animals & society; mental health, depression, & suicide; suicide bereavement; qualitative, life course, & visual methodologies.
Coming soon!Presentation at American Sociological Association's 99th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004 Section on Animals and Society scroll down to find:
Hormones, Horses, and the Menopause Industry: The "Truth" about Premarin—Tanetta Andersson
"What is it about women's "health" issues that turns people malign? Hysterectomies, cesarean sections, abortions, mammograms, hormone replacement therapy: our bodies, our hells ....But here we are, saddled, with another gynecrisis, another source of anguish over the cantankerous merchandise, the female body, this crisis perhaps the biggest one ever. By the year 2000 there will be about 50 million women in the United States over the age of fifty, all of them potential candidates for hormone therapy. If every one of them were to take hormone pills for the next thirty years—to the age of eighty, which is close to the current female life expectancy—that amounts to 1.5 billion women-years of drug consumption. What an absurdly huge number. Never before has a drug regimen been proposed on such a scale ....Hormones have much to offer, but still they smirk every so slightly. They're a little dangerous, a little threatening. They're not Flintstone Vitamins ....(Angier, 1999).
Watch this space!Developing a workshop on "visual sociology".
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