Verta Taylor

Verta Ann Taylor (born 1948)[1] is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with focuses on gender, sexuality, social movements, and women's health.

Education and career

Taylor earned a degree in social work from Indiana State University in 1970, and then went to Ohio State University for graduate study in sociology, earning a master's degree in 1971 and completing her Ph.D. there in 1976.[2]

She continued at Ohio State University as an assistant professor of sociology, affiliated with the Disaster Research Center, which she directed in 1977–1978, and with the Center for Women's Studies, for which she was acting director in 1984–1985. She was promoted to full professor at Ohio State in 1997. In 2002 she moved to the department of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, also affiliated with the Feminist Studies Program there. She chaired the sociology department from 2005 to 2012. In 2012, she added an affiliation as a research associate of the Broom Center for Demography.[2]

Publications

Taylor has authored books including:

• Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (with Leila J. Rupp, Oxford University Press, 1987)[3]
• Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression (Routledge, 1996)[4]
• Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (with Leila Rupp, University of Chicago Press, 2003)[5]

Her edited volumes include:

• Feminist Frontiers: Rethinking Sex, Gender, and Society (edited with Laurel Richardson, Addison-Wesley, 1983)[6]
• The Marrying Kind?: Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement (edited with Mary Bernstein, University of Minnesota, 2013)[7]
• The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism (edited with Holly J. McCammon, Jo Reger, and Rachel L. Einwohner, Oxford University Press, 2017)

Other highly-cited publications of Taylor include:

• "Social movement continuity: The women's movement in abeyance" (American Sociological Review, 1989)
• "Collective identity in social movement communities: Lesbian feminist mobilization" (with Nancy Whittier, in Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, 1992)
• "Analytical approaches to social movement culture: The culture of the women’s movement" (with Nancy Whittier, in Social Movements and Culture, 1995)
• "Semi-structured interviewing in social movement research" (with Kathleen M. Blee, in Methods of Social Movement Research, 2002)
• "'Get up, stand up': Tactical repertoires of social movements" (with Nella Van Dyke, in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2007)

Recognition

Taylor's book Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret won the distinguished book award of the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association in 2005.[8]

She was given the Simon and Gagnon Award for Lifetime of Scholarly Contributions to the Study of Sexuality in 2008,[9] the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Movements in 2008,[10] and the Jessie Bernard Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Women in 2011.[11]

Personal life

An out lesbian, Taylor's wife is Leila J. Rupp, with whom she coauthored several works.[12]

References

1. Birth year from French National Library catalog entry, accessed 2020-10-15
2. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). June 2017. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
3. Reviews of Survival in the Doldrums: Marilyn Dell Brady, American Studies, JSTOR 40642234; Wini Breines, Social Science Quarterly, JSTOR 42862371; Steven M. Buechler, American Journal of Sociology, JSTOR 2780630; D'Ann Campbell, The Oral History Review, doi:10.1093/ohr/16.2.141, JSTOR 3675084; Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Gender and Society, JSTOR 189743; Judith M. Gerson, Contemporary Sociology, doi:10.2307/2074165, JSTOR 2074165; Nancy A. Hewitt, Signs, JSTOR 3174711; Phyllis Palmer, American Studies International, JSTOR 41278970; Abby Peterson, Acta Sociologica, JSTOR 4194722; Ruth Rosen, The Women's Review of Books, JSTOR 4020157; Athena Theodore, Social Forces, doi:10.2307/2579547, JSTOR 2579547; Joan Tronto, Feminist Studies, JSTOR 3178172; Lillian S. Williams, The Journal of American History, doi:10.2307/1901715, JSTOR 1901715
4. Reviews of Rock-a-by Baby: Martha McMahon, Contemporary Sociology, doi:10.2307/2655636, JSTOR 2655636; Barbara Katz Rothman, Gender and Society, JSTOR 190153; Wendy Simonds, Signs, JSTOR 3175661
5. Reviews of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret: Joshua Gamson, Contemporary Sociology, JSTOR 43185217, and Mobilization, doi:10.17813/maiq.9.2.l070748528870594; Adam Isaiah Green, Contemporary Sociology, JSTOR 3593949; Judith Halberstam, Journal of the History of Sexuality, JSTOR 3704699
6. Reviews of Feminist Frontiers: Nancy Barnes, Signs, JSTOR 3174269; Kathryn Feltey, Teaching Sociology, JSTOR 3649674; Judith Kegan Gardiner, NWSA Journal, JSTOR 4316950; Barbara Corrado Pope, NWSA Journal, JSTOR 4315930
7. Reviews of The Marrying Kind: Amy Brainer, Gender and Society, doi:10.1177/0891243214524020, JSTOR 43669900; Michelle Kelsey Kearl, QED, doi:10.14321/qed.2.3.0144, JSTOR 10.14321/qed.2.3.0144; Ken Plummer, American Journal of Sociology, doi:10.1086/676522, JSTOR 10.1086/676522; Carol S. Walther, Contemporary Sociology, JSTOR 43185728
8. "Previous Sex and Gender Award Recipients". American Sociological Association. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
9. "Society of Sexualities Award Recipient History". American Sociological Association. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
10. "McCarthy Award". Center for the Study of Social Movements. University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
11. "Jessie Bernard Award". American Sociological Association. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
12. Rupp, Leila J.; Taylor, Verta (2006). "Becoming the professors of lesbian love". In Gibson, Michelle (ed.). Lesbian Academic Couples. Routledge. ISBN 978-1560236184.

External links

• Home page
• Verta Taylor publications indexed by Google Scholar