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	Benita Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies Office: LT 313 Office hours as posted or by appointment. Phone: ext. 7-2273 Email: broth@binghamton.edu WEBSITE Curriculum Vitae
Professor Roth studies the interaction of gender, race/ethnicity and class in postwar social protest, particularly feminism. She is interested in questions of collective identity, political decision-making given inequality among movement participants, and in understanding constraints on collective action. Her book, Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave, published by Cambridge University Press, is in its third printing and won the 2006 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association. She has also published on gender dynamics within the militant anti-AIDS movement, on racial/ethnic and class inequalities among working women, specifically domestic workers in the United States. In her work, Professor Roth explores constraints on institutionalized and extra-institutionalized feminist protest in non-feminist, mixed gender spaces, and looks further at the development of feminisms among U.S. based women of color. Professor Roth's ongoing projects continue her concerns with different sites of protest and agency both historically and currently. One project involves an historical look at the impact that images of nationalist/liberationist Third World women had for U.S. based feminists in different racial/ethnic communities as they fashioned feminist politics; a second is interview-based, and looks at the transition of anti-AIDS activists from militant street protest to institutional roles. Professor Roth currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on qualitative methods, social protest, political sociology, gender and work, social inequalities in everyday life, the sociology of reproduction, and social theory.
Recent Courses:
Foundations of Social Theory Qualitative Methods
Recent Publications:
Forthcoming. "A Dialogical View of the Emergence of Chicana Feminist Discourse." Expected publication date Fall 2006 in special issue of Critical Sociology on cultural approaches to understanding social movements. "Gender Inequality and Feminist Activism in Institutions: Challenges of Marginalization and Feminist Fading." Book chapter in collection entitled *The Politics of Women's Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, edited by Louise Chappell (University of Sydney) and Lisa Hill (University of Adelaide). Routledge Press, 2006. “Why a Feminist Movement? Roads to Feminist Protest in Postwar 1960s and 1970s America.” In Letters: The Semiannual Newsletter of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.* (Vanderbilt University). Volume 13:2 (Spring 2005): 1-4. Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Second Printing, Summer 2005. "Thinking About Challenges/limits for Feminist Activism in Extra-feminist Settings." Social Movement Studies 3:2 (October 2004): 147-166. "Second Wave Black Feminism in the American Diaspora: News from New Scholarship." Agenda (South Africa) Vol.58 (December 2003). "What are Social Movements and What is Gendered about Women's Participation in Social Movements?: A Sociological Perspective." Essay written for website Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/socm/intro.htm (2001). "The Vanguard Center: Intra-movement Experience and the Emergence of African-American Feminism." In Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women's Activism. Edited by Kimberly Springer. New York: New York University Press, 1999.. "Race Class and the Emergence of Black Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s." Womanist Theory and Research 2:1 (Fall). At http://www.uga.edu/~womanist/roth3.1.htm. (1999) Reprinted in Rain and Thunder #14 (Spring 2002), published by Rain and Thunder Collective, Berkeley, California.