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Patricia Yancey Martin

Patricia Yancey Martin


Contact Information:

Office: 427 Bellamy Building
Department of Sociology 2270
FSU, Tallahassee, Florida
Phone: 850-644-6416
Fax: 850-644-6208
Email: pmartin@fsu.edu

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

  • Gender
  • Organizations & Work
  • Women's Movement Organizations (rape crisis centers)
  • Sociology of the Body

Teaching:

  • Gender & Organizations
  • Sociology of Gender
  • Gender & Violence
  • Contemporary Women's Movement
  • Field Methods
  • Theories of Gender

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

  • BA English Literature, University of Alabama; MA Sociology, Florida State University, Ph. D. Sociology, Florida State University

Selected Papers and Publications:

  • Martin, P. Y., Schrock, D., Leaf, M., and Von Rohr, C. Rape Work: Emotional Dilemmas in Work with Victims. 2007. Pp. 44-60 in Steve Fineman (Ed.) The Emotional Organization: Passion and Power. London: Blackwell. READ
  • Martin, P. Y. Coordinated Community Services for Victims of Violence. 2007. In Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Margie L. Kiter Edwards (Eds), Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2/e. New York: New York University Press. READ
  • Martin, P. Y. (with F. E. Schmitt). The History of the Anti-Rape and Rape Crisis Center Movements. 2007. In Clarie M. Renezetti and Jeffery Edleson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. READ
  • Martin, P. Y. (with Lacey Sischo & John Taylor), Carrying the Weight of Self-Derogation? Disordered Eating Practices as Social Deviance in Young Adults. 2006. Deviant Behavior. 27.
  • Martin, P. Y. Practicing Gender at Work: Further Thoughts on Reflexivity. 2006. Gender, Work and Organization. 13. READ
  • Martin, P. Y. (with Noella Dietz), Women Who Are Stalked: Questioning the Fear Standard. 2007. Violence Against Women. 13 (7):750-776. READ
  • Rape Work: Victims, Gender & Emotions in Organization and Community Context. 2005. New York: Routledge. SLIDES
  • Martin, P. Y. Gender as Social Institution. 2004. Social Forces 82 (June):1249-1273. READ
  • Martin, P. Y. “Said and done” vs. “saying and doing”: Gendering Practices, Practicing Gender at Work. 2003. Gender & Society 17:342-366. READ
  • Martin, P. Y. Sensations, Bodies, and ‘the Spirit of a Place’: Aesthetics in Residential Organizations for the Elderly. 2002. Human Relations 55 (7):861-885. [Note: Named by HR editorial board as one of two best Volume 55 articles.] READ
  • Martin, P. Y. (with D. Collinson) Across the Water and over the Pond: The Developing Field of Gendered Organizations. 2002. Gender, Work, & Organization 9 (June)244-265. Abstracted in: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (August 2003). READ
  • Martin, P. Y. (with John Reynolds & Shelley Keith) Gender Bias and Feminist Consciousness among Judges and Lawyers: A Standpoint Theory Analysis. 2002. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27 (3):665-701. READ
  • Martin, P. Y. 'Mobilizing Masculinities': Women's Experiences of Men at Work. 2001. Organization 8 (November):587-618. READ

Manuscripts in Progress:

  • Sharon Bird and Patricia Yancey Martin. Gender & Organizations. (Undergraduate text under contract with Rowman & Littlefield in the Gender Lens Series)
  • Patricia Yancey Martin, Doug Schrock and Margaret Leaf. ‘You Really Need Some Soft Handling’: The Emotions of Rape Work.
  • Doug Schrock, Margaret Leaf, and Patricia Yancey Martin. Bureaucratizing Emotions in Work with Rape Victims
  • Emily Boyd, John Reynolds, Kathryn Tillman, and Patricia Yancey Martin. Actual Weight, Perceptions of Over-weight and Weight-control Practices in Adolescent Girls: The Significance of Race/Ethnicity
  • Lacey Sischo, John Taylor and Patricia Yancey Martin. Weight Anxiety and Physical Abuse in relation to Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Class

Recent honors:

  • 2007-8. Fulbright International Scholar & Visiting Professor of Management and Sociology, Goteborg University, Goteborg Sweden (March-July)
  • 2007. Martin received the 2007 Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association. The Jessie Bernard Award is given in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. The contribution may be in empirical research, theory, or methodology. The Award is presented for significant cumulative work done throughout a professional career.
  • 2007. Martin served as the Marie Jahoda Visiting Professor of Feminist Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum Germany (Fall)
  • 2006. Martin received the 2006 Feminist Activism Award from Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), an award given annually to an SWS member who has helped improve society’s receptivity to and support for women or girls by enhancing social justice.

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