11/19/2008
The University of Washington Department of Sociology presents:
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Past President of the American Sociological Association,
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, the City University of New York (CUNY)
Gender Regimes and Knowledge Politics
Friday, November 18
Condon 311
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Refreshments Provided
Professor Epstein is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In 2006, she served as President of the American Sociological Association. She has served as a fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation, and as a White House appointee to the Committee on the Economic Role of Women, and as an advisor to the White House on affirmative action policies. Her many prominent publications include The Part-Time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and Gender (with Carroll Seron, Bonnie Oglensky, and Robert Saute: Routledge 1999), Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order (Russell Sage Foundation 1988), and "Great Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Bases of the Global Subordination of Women" (American Sociological Review 2007).
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