Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology

Introduction : queer work in a straight discipline / Kristen Schilt, Tey Meadow, and D'Lane Compton -- The "not sociology" problem / Kristen Schilt -- The methods gatekeepers and the exiled queers / Jane Ward -- Trans issue in sociology : a trans-centered perspective / Emilia Lombardi -- Beyond academia : strategies for using LGBT research to influence public policy / Gary J. Gates and Jody L. Herman -- Pornographics as queer method / Angela Jones -- Not out in the field : studying privacy and disclosure as an invisible (trans) man / Cayce C. Hughes -- Thank you for coming out today : the queer discomforts of in-depth interviewing / Catherine Connell -- Studying the "right" can feel wrong : reflections on researching anti-LGBT movements / Tina Fetner and Melanie Heath -- The mess : on queer vulnerability as ethnographic practice / Tey Meadow -- Challenges, triumphs, and praxis : collecting qualitative data on less visible and marginalized populations / Mignon R. Moore -- How many (queer) cases do I need? : thinking through research design / D'Lane Compton -- Queer spatial analysis / Amin Ghaziani -- Queer persistence in the archive / Amy L. Stone -- Gendering carnal ethnography : a queer reception / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Translation as queer methodology / Evren Savci -- Queer and punishment : sexual social control and the legacy of "nuts, sluts and preverts" / Trevor Hoppe -- The demography of sexuality : queering demographic methods / Amanda K. Baumle -- What to do with actual people? : thinking through a queer social science method / C.J. Pascoe -- Queer accounting : methodological investments and disinvestments / Carla A. Pfeffer.

"Located within the critical conversation about what it might mean to 'queer' research methods that has developed over the past decade in conference panels, workshops, edited volumes, and journal symposia, Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology presents an array of experiences, insights, and approaches that show the power of queer investigations of the social world and of the disciplinary conventions of sociology. Incorporating the experiences of sociologists who utilize a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies for getting queer research off the ground and for building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield"--Provided by publisher

"Located within the critical conversation about what it might mean to 'queer' research methods that has developed over the past decade in conference panels, workshops, edited volumes, and journal symposia, Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology presents an array of experiences, insights, and approaches that show the power of queer investigations of the social world and of the disciplinary conventions of sociology. Incorporating the experiences of sociologists who utilize a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies for getting queer research off the ground and for building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield"--Provided by publisher