Verta Ann Taylor (born 1948) is a professor of
sociology
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at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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, with focuses on gender, sexuality, social movements, and women's health.
Education and career
Taylor earned a degree in
social work
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from
Indiana State University
Indiana State University (ISU) is a public university in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was founded in 1865 and offers over 100 undergraduate majors and more than 75 graduate and professional programs. Indiana State is classified among "D/PU: Doctor ...
in 1970, and then went to
Ohio State University
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for graduate study in sociology, earning a master's degree in 1971 and completing her Ph.D. there in 1976.
She continued at Ohio State University as an assistant professor of sociology, affiliated with the Disaster Research Center, which she directed in 1977–1978, and with the Center for Women's Studies, for which she was acting director in 1984–1985. She was promoted to full professor at Ohio State in 1997. In 2002 she moved to the department of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, also affiliated with the Feminist Studies Program there. She chaired the sociology department from 2005 to 2012. In 2012, she added an affiliation as a research associate of the Broom Center for Demography.
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Publications
Taylor has authored books including:
*''Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s'' (with Leila J. Rupp, Oxford University Press, 1987)
*''Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression'' (Routledge, 1996)
*''Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret'' (with Leila Rupp, University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Her edited volume An edited volume or edited collection is a collection of scholarly or scientific chapters written by different authors. The chapters in an edited volume are original works (not republished works).
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s include:
*''Feminist Frontiers: Rethinking Sex, Gender, and Society'' (edited with Laurel Richardson, Addison-Wesley, 1983)
*''The Marrying Kind?: Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement'' (edited with Mary Bernstein, University of Minnesota, 2013)
*''The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism'' (edited with Holly J. McCammon, Jo Reger, and Rachel L. Einwohner, Oxford University Press, 2017)
Other highly-cited publications of Taylor include:
*"Social movement continuity: The women's movement in abeyance" (''American Sociological Review
The ''American Sociological Review'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology. It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association. It was established in 1936. The editors- ...
'', 1989)
*"Collective identity in social movement communities: Lesbian feminist mobilization" (with Nancy Whittier
Nancy Whittier is an American sociologist and a professor at Smith College. She has written many books, including ''Feminist Generations'', ''Feminist Frontiers 5'', and ''The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the Stat ...
, in ''Frontiers in Social Movement Theory'', 1992)
*"Analytical approaches to social movement culture: The culture of the women’s movement" (with Nancy Whittier, in ''Social Movements and Culture'', 1995)
*"Semi-structured interviewing in social movement research" (with Kathleen M. Blee
Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953) is a professor of sociology and Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Biography
Blee completed ...
, in ''Methods of Social Movement Research'', 2002)
*"Get up, stand up': Tactical repertoires of social movements" (with Nella Van Dyke, in ''The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements'', 2007)
Recognition
Taylor's book ''Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret'' won the distinguished book award of the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association
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in 2005.
She was given the Simon and Gagnon Award for Lifetime of Scholarly Contributions to the Study of Sexuality in 2008, the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Movements in 2008, and the Jessie Bernard Award {{refimprove, date=July 2022
The Jessie Bernard Award is given by the American Sociological Association in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. The contribution ...
for Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Women in 2011.
Personal life
An out lesbian
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, Taylor's wife is Leila J. Rupp, with whom she coauthored several works.
References
External links
Home page
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1948 births
American women sociologists
American sociologists
Indiana State University alumni
Ohio State University Graduate School alumni
Ohio State University faculty
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Lesbian academics
Living people
21st-century American women