by Valerie Jenness | Jul 30, 2016 | Latest Posts
Valerie Jenness Animated Video Valerie Jenness is an author, researcher, public policy advisor, and professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Valerie...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 23, 2016 | Latest Posts
Prison Justice by Valerie Jenness Some would say that prisoners forfeited their rights as soon as they violated the rights of others and became destroyers of societal convention. Others maintain that being in jail does not automatically make a person unworthy of...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 6, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: Violence aimed at individuals who identify, or are perceived as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), or otherwise gender variant has been a part of the fabric of most societies both historically and in the present era. This essay reviews...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 6, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: In the past few decades, there has been a move in research along two parallel lines: on transgender people and on intersectionality. In Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category, David Valentine (2007: 4) argues that the term “transgender” emerged...
by Valerie Jenness | Jul 6, 2016 | Publications
Abstract: When Susan Brownmiller published Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape in 1975, few anticipated that it would become a feminist classic published in more than a dozen languages. Even fewer imagined that it would foreshadow a proliferation of public...
