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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:

  • Boyd, E.M., John Reynolds, Kathryn Harker Tillman, and Patricia Yancey Martin. (2011) Adolescent girls’ race/ethnic status, identities, and drive for thinness. Social Sci. Res., doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.11.003
  • Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin. (2011) The socially constructed body: Insights from feminist theory. Pp. 183-206 in Peter Kvisto (ed.), Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. 5th ed. READ
  • Patricia Yancey Martin. (2009) Rape Crisis Centers: Helping Victims, Changing Society. In Y. Hasenfeld (Ed.), Human Service Organizations. 2nd ed. Sage. READ
  • 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:

  • Article: Lacey Sischo and Patricia Yancey Martin, “Women’s narratives of elective breast surgery: Justifying reconstruction and augmentation.” Journal article in progress.
  • Book: Gender & Organizations (with Sharon Bird) Undergraduate text under contract with Rowman & Littlefield in Gender Lens Series (in development)

Recent honors:

  • 2010. Keynote Speaker, 6th Biennial Conference on Gender, Work, and Organization, Keele University, Stoke-on- Trent, UK, June.
  • 2010. Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecturer, Richmond University, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • 2006, 2009. Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer (Hendrix College, Mercer University)
  • 2008. Roll of Honor Award, Southern Sociological Society (first woman recipient)
  • 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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