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Department of Social Sciences and History/Sociology

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Phone: 973-443-8721
Fax: 973-443-8799

E-mail: gadsden@fdu.edu
gygadsden@aol.com

Dr. Gloria Y. Gadsden

Associate Professor of Sociology

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, December 1998, Sociology

Dissertation: "Femininity and Traditionality: A Textual Analysis of Gender Roles and Sexuality in Women's Magazines, 1986-1995."

Certificate of Women's Studies, University of Pennsylvania, December 1995

M.A., University of Pennsylvania, June 1995, Sociology

A. B., Columbia University, Barnard College, May 1990, Sociology

AREAS OF INTEREST:
Deviance & Social Control, Gender & Sexuality, Popular Culture & Mass Media, Crime and Criminology, Race & Ethnicity, Qualitative Methodology

PUBLICATIONS:
Article: Spring 2000. “The Male Voice In Women's Magazines” in Gender Issues 18(2): 49-57.

Article: 2003. “Crooked Men and Straightened Women: Images of Homosexuality Across Race in Two Women's Magazines, 1986-1995” in The Journal of Homosexuality 43(2): 59-75.

Book Review: May 2004. “But Does Sex in Advertising Really Affect Viewers?” in The Journal of Sex Research, 41(2): 216. A review of Sex in Advertising: Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal.

Article: 2005. “Safety and Restriction: The Construction of Black Women's Sexuality in Essence Magazine.” In Women and Media: National and International Perspectives. Eds. T. Carilli and J. Campbell. NY: University Press of America.

Article: 2006. “Gender and Deviance” in Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer. USA: Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming.

COURSES TAUGHT (Alphabetical):
Comparative Deviance, Crime and Criminology, Crime and the Media, Deviance and Social Control, Drugs In American Society, Ethnic and Race Relations, Introduction to Sociology, Sex & Violence, Sexual Diversity, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Violence, Women and Crime

Links of interest:

National Organization for Women
Sociologists for Women in Society
Eastern Sociological Society

Email address: gloria_gadsden@fdu.edu

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