Editor

Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She served as president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Eastern Sociological Society. Her publications includes over 50 book chapters and journal articles in a wide array of interdisciplinary and sociological journals. She is author of Grassroots Warriors: Community Work, Activist Mothering and the War on Poverty and Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research. She is editor of Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender; and coeditor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization; Teaching Feminist Praxis; Women’s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics; and The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men by Lionel Cantú. She is series editor for Praxis: Theory in Action published by SUNY Press and Editor‐in‐Chief of the five‐volume Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her awards include the 2015 Jessie Bernard Award for distinguished contributions women and gender studies from the American Sociological Association and the 2014 Lee Founders Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She also received the 2010 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award and the 2011 Feminist Mentor Award from Sociologists for Women in Society and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ 2011 Excellence in Research for Social Sciences and Alumni Association’s 2008 Faculty Excellence Award in Research from the University of Connecticut. She is currently working on a book on Sexual Citizenship.

Managing Editor

Cristina Khan is a lecturer in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut in 2019 with a certificate in Feminist Studies. Her specializations include race, ethnicity, embodiment, sexualities, and qualitative research methods. Her dissertation, “Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color,” draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in‐depth interviews with a collective of lesbian exotic dancers, uncovering how race and sexuality, together, shape women’s potential to enact agency over the conditions of their participation in exotic dance. Her research on “Constructing Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry” has been published in Gender & Society. She is also coauthor of Race and Sexuality (Polity Press, 2018). Her research experience includes serving as a consultant on diversity and equity initiatives at the New York City Department of Education, and as a research assistant on cochlear implant usage and experience amongst families under the supervision of Dr. Laura Mauldin.

Shweta M. Adur, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. Before this, she served as an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She completed her PhD in Sociology from the University of Connecticut and has received a Master’s in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, human rights and immigration. She is the coauthor of the book As the Leaves Turn Gold: Asian Americans and Experiences of Aging (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) that engages with issues surrounding aging and social inequality from a transnational perspective. Her publications have appeared in peer‐reviewed journals (most recent ones were featured in Current Sociology and Journal of Gender Studies) and edited collections.

Louisa Allen is a Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in research in the areas of sexuality, education, and young people. These topics are explored through the theoretical frameworks of queer theory and feminist new materialisms. She has published eight books in these areas the most recent of which is Sexuality Education and New Materialism: Queer Things (Palgrave, 2018).

Julie Beaulieu is a Lecturer for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD in Literature with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research and teaching interests include the history of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, eighteenth‐century British literature, queer theory, and affect theory. She is currently working on her first book manuscript, entitled, Obsessive Love: A Queer History.

Kelsy Burke is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln where she researches the relationship between religion and sexuality in contemporary America. Her first book is Christians under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet (University of California Press, 2016). Her research has also appeared in Sexualities, Sociological Compass, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Journal for Religion and Popular Culture.

Courtney Caviness is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Davis. Her research focus is in areas of gender, sexuality, and work, as primarily viewed through feminist and critical theory lenses. Her current research relies on interviews with current and former LGBTQ military personnel to examine how they experience the increasingly inclusionary US military workplace following the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and most recently, the ban on transgender service.

Stuti Das is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. She received her M.Phil. from the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India in 2019. Her research interests lie in the areas of gender, sexualities, migration, and global health.

Jennifer Ann Drobac is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at the Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Her recent work includes: Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and two forthcoming books, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Practice 2nd ed., with co‐authors Carrie N. Baker and Rigel C. Oliveri (Carolina Academic Press, 2020) and The Myth of Consent (Cambridge University Press, anticipated 2021). She anticipates the completion of Rule10b‐5 Financial Reporting of Sexual Harassment: The Empirical Evidence for A New Approach (with Dr. Mark Russell) – an article on the corporate disclosure of the costs of sexual harassment.

Donna J. Drucker is Senior Advisor, English as the Language of Instruction at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She is the author of The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge (Pittsburgh, 2014), The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945–1985 (Springer, 2014), and Contraception: A Concise History (MIT, forthcoming 2020). Her next monograph project is a history of barrier contraceptives for women. She thanks the 2017 Berliner Colloquium zur Geschichte der Sexualität for their feedback on an earlier version of the chapter in this volume.

Elya M. Durisin holds a PhD in Political Science from York University, Canada. Her research focused on sexualized nationalism in narratives of sex trafficking in government discourse. She has been involved in the sex worker rights movement locally and internationally, and she is a coeditor, with Emily van der Meulen and Chris Bruckert, of Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance (UBC Press, 2018).

Michele Eggers‐Barison is an Assistant Professor at Chico State University. Her work focuses on addressing global reproductive inequities and the interrelated issues of environmental and economic exploitation, poverty, and repression, linking broader constructs of violence to lived experience. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, Embodying Inequality: The Criminalization of Women for Abortion in Chile. She is a documentary filmmaker, producing multiple shorts on gender‐based violence and environmental and human rights abuses, the producer of the Eugene Environmental Film Festival, and activist on these issues.

Apoorva Ghosh is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His research is located at the intersection of sociology of sexualities, family, social movements, globalization, and organizations. He has authored papers in these areas for Gender, Work & Organizations, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Management and Labour Studies, Sexualities, Sociology Compass, and South Asian Journal of Management. Ghosh has held fellowships from the US Department of State (Fulbright 2012–2013), University of Maastricht, the Netherlands (METEOR Visiting Doctoral Student 2010), XLRI‐ Xavier School of Management, India (Fellow Program in Management 2009–2013), and the University of California, Irvine (Social Science Merit Fellowship 2015–2021). In addition to doing research, Ghosh teaches upper division undergraduate sociology courses on gender and globalization.

Patti Giuffre is a Professor of Sociology at Texas State University. She conducts research on gender, sexuality, inequality, and work. She has co‐authored articles on sexual harassment, gender inequality in workplaces, homophobia in workplaces, “gay‐friendly” workplaces, qualitative methods, globalization, women’s workplace solidarity, and gender inequality in the culinary industry in Gender & Society, Gender Issues, Sociology Compass, Research in the Sociology of Work, Sexuality Research & Social Policy, Sociology Compass, Sociological Spectrum, and Teaching Sociology. Her recent book, with Deborah A. Harris, Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen (2015; Rutgers University Press) examines why the occupation of chef—a job based on the feminized skill of cooking—is male‐dominated and considered a masculine occupation.

Diane Grossman received her PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where she was an Ida Parker Bowne Scholar. She is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Philosophy at Simmons University, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Honors Program. Dr. Grossman has served Simmons as Chair of both departments, as Director of Academic Advising, and as Associate Dean and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Existentialism and the Philosophical Tradition, Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life, and numerous articles and essays on ethics, feminist theory, and cultural studies. In addition, she is part of a cross‐disciplinary research team that studies girls’ and women’s perceived confidence; the team has published several articles on that subject.

Crystal M. Hayes, MSW, is a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Her research focuses on reproductive justice issues for incarcerated women. Crystal’s work promotes the need for gender‐responsive, healing‐centered, comprehensive reproductive healthcare for incarcerated women. She works closely with human rights groups working to end reproductive oppression globally. Crystal is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships as well as the author of numerous publications and blogs on related topics.

Sharon Hayes is an Adjunct in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Brisbane. She has been researching in the areas of criminal justice, criminology, and ethics for the past thirty years and has developed a focused research profile in the areas of sexuality/gender studies, specifically sex and crime, domestic violence and violence against women. Recent books include Romantic Terrorism: An Auto‐ethnography of Domestic Violence Victimization and Survival (Palgrave 2015), and Sex Love and Abuse: Discourses on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (Palgrave 2014). Sharon is also Co‐Curator of the Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice books series.

Carol Johnson is an Emerita Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Adelaide. She has written extensively on issues of sexuality, including specifically on issues of comparative sexual citizenship. She is a co‐editor, with Manon Tremblay and David Paternotte of The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship (Ashgate, Farnham, 2011). Her most recent book on Social Democracy and the Crisis of Equality: Australian Social Democracy in a Changing World, (Springer 2019), also contains a key chapter on international social democracy and sexual equality.

Kamala Kempadoo is Professor of Social Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. She publishes and speaks widely on migrant and sex worker’s rights, and anti‐trafficking discourses from antiracist and transnational feminist perspectives. One of her most influential books, co‐edited with Jo Doezema. is Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition. She received the 2017 “Distinguished Scientific Award” from the Society from the Scientific Study of Sexuality for her research on sex work.

Cristina Khan is Lecturer in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at SUNY Stony Brook. She earned her PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her specializations include race and ethnicity, embodiment, sexualities, and qualitative research methods. Her dissertation, “Undoing Borders: A Feminist Exploration of Erotic Performance by Lesbian Women of Color,” draws on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in‐depth interviews with a collective of lesbian exotic dancers, uncovering how race and sexuality, together, shape women’s potential to enact agency over the conditions of their participation in exotic dance. She is coauthor of Race and Sexuality (Polity Press, 2018).

Agnieszka Kościan&c.acute;ska is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. She is the author and (co)editor of several volumes on gender, sexuality, and sexology, including the monographs, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland (forthcoming with Indiana University Press; Polish version: University of Warsaw Press, 2014) and To See a Moose: The History of Polish Sex Education from the First Lesson to the Internet (forthcoming with Berghahn Books; Polish version: Czarne, 2017), and the special issue of Sexualities, “The Science of Sex in a Space of Uncertainty: Naturalizing and Modernizing Europe’s East, Past and Present” (no. 1–2, 2016, coedited with Hadley Renkin).

Mathew Kuefler is professor of history at San Diego State University. He is the author of The History of Sexuality Sourcebook (Toronto, 2007) and multiple books and articles on gender and sexuality in late Roman antiquity and the European Middle Ages on topics ranging from homoeroticism and castration to marriage regulations and childhood. From 2004 to 2014 he was editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. His current research is on gender, sexuality, and holiness in the Christian tradition. Together with Merry Wiesner‐Hanks he is now also editing a four‐volume Cambridge World History of Sexualities.

Emily A. Leskinen, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor of Social Science and she is affiliated with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program in the School of Social Science and Human Services at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining social inequalities and injustices, primarily from the target’s perspective. Using an intersectional framework, she has three lines of research related to these core interests: (i) sex‐based harassment, (ii) stereotyping and prejudice, and (iii) social attitudes and health behaviors.

Janelle Leyva holds a BA in Psychology from Ramapo College of New Jersey, with minors in Women’s and Gender Studies and Substance Abuse. She investigates perceptions of criminal defendants, law enforcement, and victims, and she conducts social psychological research on emotion perception.

Kate Luxion is a genderqueer/nonbinary researcher focusing on LGBTQ+ inclusive reproduction and parenting. Presently, they are pursuing a PhD in Social Science at University College London, teaching college courses, and serving as Executive Director of Journal of Reproductive Justice. Their PhD research centers on the interplay of vulnerability and resilience, while also assessing how each factor may influence parent and infant health outcomes. As Executive Director, Luxion helps the organization provide inclusive resources and education for LGBTQ+ families and the providers who serve them. Mx. Luxion can also be found volunteering for like‐minded organizations and working on art with their partner and kiddo.

Vera Mackie is Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. She is coauthor, with Sharon Crozier‐De Rosa, of Remembering Women’s Activism (Routledge, 2019), coeditor, with Mark McLelland, of the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia (Routledge, 2015), and coeditor, with Nicola J. Marks and Sarah Ferber, of The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes (Lexington Books, 2019).

Julia Meszaros is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University Commerce. Her research interrogates the international dating and marriage industry, commonly known as the “mail order bride” industry, and the role of commodified intimacies in the global economy. Her work on this topic is published at Gender, Place and Culture and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Please visit her website juliameszaros.com.

Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her publications includes seven books and over 50 book chapters and journal articles in a wide array of interdisciplinary and sociological journals. She is series editor for Praxis: Theory in Action published by SUNY Press and Editor‐in‐Chief of the five‐volume Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Vrushali Patil is Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida International University. She writes and teaches on the interconnections among race, gender, and sexuality, in historical and transnational perspective. She is currently working on a book entitled Empire and the Sociologies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality: From Societies to Webbed Connectivities. Her previous book is Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations: Politics of Space, Identity and International Community (Routledge, 2008).

Leigh Potvin is an Assistant Professor at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada). Her research focuses on straight allyship, queer pedagogies, fat activism, and food sovereignty/justice.

Jyoti Puri is Hazel Dick Leonard Chair and Professor of Sociology at Simmons University. She writes and researches at the crossroads of sociology, sexuality/queer studies, and postcolonial feminist theory. Her recent book, Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle against the Antisodomy Law in India’s Present (Duke University Press, 2016), won the outstanding book award given by the Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association. Her previous books include Woman, Body, Desire in Post‐Colonial India (Routledge, 1999) and Encountering Nationalism, (Blackwell, 2004). She is working on a project on death and migration.

J. Michael Ryan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. Dr. Ryan was previously a researcher for the TRANSRIGHTS Project at The University of Lisbon (Portugal) and has taught courses at The American University in Cairo (Egypt), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) (Ecuador), and the University of Maryland. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, DC. He is the editor of multiple volumes, including Trans Lives in a Global(‐izing) World: Rights, Identities, and Politics (Routledge, 2020), and Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley, 2018). Dr. Ryan also served as an advisory editor on The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Helis Sikk is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida Tampa. Her research takes a feral multidisciplinary approach in exploring the relationships between queerness, affect, the built environment, communities, media, and visual cultures. She co‐edited a collection of essays, The Legacies of Matthew Shepard (Routledge 2019) and is currently working on her monograph, Mainstreaming Violence: Affect, Activism, and Queer Politics of Representation.

Leah R. Warner, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology and she is affiliated with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program in the School of Social Science and Human Services at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her research explores how emotion perception processes reflect, produce, and reproduce status and power structures, as well as interdisciplinary scholarship on integrating intersectionality theory into psychological research.

Brandi Woodell is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. Her research examines the disparities between sexual minorities and heterosexuals within the social contexts of religion, family, and health. Her recent work on sexual minority health disparities examines how gender and rurality shape the experiences of community resources and social support.

I am grateful to all the authors, reviewers, and editors who have made this ambitious interdisciplinary volume possible. The authors bring a wide range of expertise from different academic training and activist backgrounds to their chapters with a commitment to sharing their visions and knowledge of the diverse topics and themes that shape the Companion on Sexuality Studies. Many of my colleagues in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut and other academic sites around the world have generously supported the project in the important role of anonymous reviewers, often providing a quick turnaround to facilitate the demanding production deadlines. I am grateful for their extremely insightful reviews and their understanding of the international and interdisciplinary goals of the Companion. Special thanks to Shweta M. Adur, Françoise Dussart, Michele Eggers-Barison, Vrshali Patil, and Barbara Sutton for sharing their expertise on various chapters. J. Michael Ryan also graciously offered his editorial and academic knowledge whenever asked and without hesitation. I would also like to thank the Wiley Blackwell editorial and production team – Merryl Le Roux, Richard Samson, Elisha Benjamin, and Justin Vaughan – for their commitment and dedication to this project. Thanks also go to copy-editor Katherine Carr. My appreciation to M.J. Taylor who assisted at the very early and crucial stage of identification and outreach to authors and organization of manuscripts. Managing Editor Cristina Khan was an extremely valuable collaborator who has assisted in reviewing and editing all the chapters as well as co-authoring a chapter in this volume to advance the coverage of important topics in the Companion. Cristina signed on as Managing Editor at the early stages, not expecting, I suspect, all that this would entail. She was able to see it through to completion even as she started a new position in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stoney Brook University in New York. I could not have done this massive editorial project without her.