UMass Sesquicentennial
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Sociology

 

 

 

Millie Thayer

Graduate Program Director

Education and Interests

Ph.D., California-Berkeley 2002

Curriculum Vitae


Sociology of Gender, Feminist Theory, Social Movements, Sociology of Globalization and Development, Qualitative Methods,Gender and Globalization, Women's Movements in the Global South, Feminisms in the Latin/a Americas, Feminist Methodologies


Publications

  • Negotiating the Global: Northeast Brazilian Women's Movements and the Transnational Feminist Public.  To be submitted to Duke University Press.

    "Feminists and Funding: Plays of Power in the Social Movement Market."  To be submitted to Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

    "The Leverage of the Local: Rural Brazilian Women's Movements in the Global Arena."  To be submitted to Latin American Research Review.

    "When they Write Back: Negotiating with the Transnational Subjects of Ethnography."  To be submitted to Qualitative Sociology.

    "Women's Movements through a Brazilian Feminist Lens."  To be submitted as part of an edited collection on Brazilian feminism.

    "Transnational Feminism: Reading Joan Scott in the Brazilian Sertao."  Ethnography 2: 243-71, 2001.

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