selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Climax as Work: Heteronormativity, Gender Labor, and the Gender Gap in Orgasms. Gender and Society. 36:189-213. 2022
- Condom use in penile-vaginal intercourse among Canadian adults: Results from the sex in Canada survey. PLoS ONE. 15:e0228981-e0228981. 2020
- Espousing Patriarchy: Conciliatory Masculinity and Homosocial Femininity in Religiously Conservative Families. Gender and Society. 33:888-910. 2019
- Book Review: Christians under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet by Kelsy Burke. Gender and Society. 33:157-159. 2019
- Proposing Prosperity? Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America. Contemporary Sociology. 47:356-357. 2018
- Editor’s Pick. Sociological Perspectives. 59:721-742. 2016
- Judging Women’s Sexual Agency: Contemporary Sex Wars in the Legal Terrain of Prostitution and Polygamy. Signs. 42:199-225. 2016
- Sexual Misgivings: Producing Un/Marked Knowledge in Neoliberal Marriage Promotion Policies. Sociological Quarterly. 54:561-583. 2013
- Making Marriage Promotion into Public Policy: The Epistemic Culture of a Statewide Initiative. Qualitative Sociology. 35:385-406. 2012
- Marriage Goes to School. Contexts Contexts. 11:34-38. 2012
- State of our Unions. Gender and Society. 23:27-48. 2009
- The politics of same-sex marriage. Mobilization. 13:247-248. 2008
- Matrimony, American-style. Feminist Theory. 6:355-365. 2005
- God, Sex, and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies. Contemporary Sociology. 34:517-518. 2005
- Soft-Boiled Masculinity: Renegotiating Gender and Racial Ideologies in the Promise Keepers Movement. Gender and Society. 17:423-444. 2003
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article
- Conservative Sexual Politics in Canada: From Campaigns Against Same-Sex Marriage to Fighting Barbaric Cultural Practices 2017
- Whither LGBT Rights After Marriage Equality?: Looking Forward, Looking Backward. Sociological Forum. 31:1145-1150. 2016
- Is Polygamy Bad for Women? The Politics of Group Rights and Feminism in France 2015
- Queering Marriage? Challenging Family Formation in the United States. By Katrina Kimport. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2013. Pp. x+199. $25.95.. American Journal of Sociology. 120:1276-1278. 2015
- Book Review: The Nuptial Deal: Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance by Jaye Cee Whitehead. Gender and Society. 28:159-161. 2014
- Queering Conflict: Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia in Northern Ireland. Contemporary Sociology. 42:742-743. 2013
- Gay Rights at the Ballot Box. Mobilization. 18:111-112. 2013
- The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State. By Nancy Whittier. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xii+260. $29.95.. American Journal of Sociology. 118:508-510. 2012
- Does ‘Place’ Count? Marrying Outside the Heartland to Mobilize for Lesbian and Gay Rights 2012
- The Marriage Promotion Movement, Epistemic Culture, and Sexualities 2011
- Sexual Tyranny or Constitutional Right? Framing the Polygamy Debate in Canada 2011
- Privilege, Oppression, and the Consequences of Undoing Gender 2011
- Polygamy’s Challenge to the Language of Rights and Sexual Citizenship 2010
- Acculturation Disparity in Afghan-Canadian Families 2010
- Universal Harm or Religious Freedom: Representing Polygamous Identities in Canadian Law and Policy 2010
- Saving Marriage: A Comparison of Religion and Marriage Promotion in the United States and Britain 2009
- Victory—A Double-Edged Sword? Ephemeral Success for the Religious Right in their Campaigns Against Same-Sex Marriage 2009
- ’Universally Harmful or Benign’: Double Jeopardy in Representing Polygamous Women’s Subjectivities in Canadian Law and Policy 2008
- Making Marriage Count in Law and Public Policy: Symbolic Boundaries and Gendered Anxieties 2007
- Contrasting Moral Worlds: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Two Marriage Movements 2006
- Fighting for Marriage: Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage in the ‘Bible Belt’ 2005
- Panic Over Marriage: Sex and Morality in the ‘Bible Belt’ 2005
- Is Marriage Heterosexual? Embattled Sexual Identities in Oklahoma 2005
- Segregated Tongues or Segregated Faiths?: The Problem of Incorporation for Immigrants in Mainline Congregations 2003
- Review Essay: Transatlantic Family TravailThe End of Marriage? Individualism and Intimate Relations. By Jane Lewis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001. Pp. 256. $75.00.The Changing Experience of Childhood: Families and Divorce. By Carol Smart, Bren Neale, and Amanda Wade. Cambridge: Polity, 2001. Pp. 240. $64.30.Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments. By Jeffrey Weeks, Brian Heaphy, and Catherine Donovan. London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 256. $90.00.. American Journal of Sociology. 108:658-668. 2002
- Addressing Immigrant Responses to Sept. 11 in Los Angeles 2001
- ’Not Here’: Policing Whiteness in Media Representations of School Shootings 2001
- Hegemonic and Marginalized Masculinities in the Promise Keepers 2000
- Rethinking the Sociological ‘Canon:’ an Examination of Difference in the Epistemological Perspectives of Gilman and Durkheim 2000
- Moral Unity in the Promise Keepers Movement: Ritual and Legitimation of Patriarchy 1999
- Promise Keepers in the Promise Land: Feminism, Foucault, and Rituals of Power 1999
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book
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chapter
- Promoting marriage for America. 331-340. 2019
- Studying the “right” can feel wrong: Reflections on researching anti-LGBT movements. 140-153. 2018
- Testing the Limits of Religious Freedom: The Case of Polygamy’s Criminalization in Canada. 157-179. 2016
- The long journey to marriage: Same-sex marriage, assimilation, and resistance in the heartland. 263-289. 2013
- The Marriage Promotion Movement. 543-553. 2008
- What Promises Can Men Keep?. 484-494. 2004