ABSTRACT
My research occurs at the intersection of the sociology of sexuality and feminist approaches to law and policy. My two books, Temporarily Yours (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Regulating Sex (Routledge, 2005), explore the interplay between transformations in political economy, modes of state regulation, and sexual practices and identities in the post-industrial West. My current research examines the coordination of political-economic and religious interests in the development of recent US policies pertaining to the “traffic in women.” Throughout all of this work, my agenda has been to illuminate the moral and political convictions that motivate particular sets of social actors and to situate policies pertaining to gender and sexuality within a broader field of social, political, and economic relations.
