Jean Williams (Department Chair)

Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1998

American Politics, Social Welfare Policy, Cultural Politics

Internship Program Director

email: jemwilli@calpoly.edu

Publications

(All publications are published under the name Jean Calterone Williams.)

Books

Abstinence Education and the Politics of Virginity (coauthor Alesha E. Doan), Praeger Publishers, forthcoming.

"A Roof Over My Head": Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry, University Press of Colorado, 2003.

Journal Articles

"The Politics of Homelessness: Shelter Now and Political Protest," Political Research Quarterly, (September 2005).

“Building A Movement: Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique,” review of Betty Friedan: Her Life, by Judith Hennessee and Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism, by Daniel Horowitz, Radical History Review 80 (Spring 2001).

"Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women," Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 19:2 (1998).

"Geography of The Homeless Shelter: Staff Surveillance and Residents’ Resistance," Urban Anthropology 25:1 (Spring 1996).

Book Chapters

"Homeless Women: Domestic Violence and Housing Instability." In Homelessness in America, ed. Robert Hartmann McNamara, Praeger Publishers, forthcoming.

"Sex Education" (coauthor Alesha E. Doan). In Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia of Controversies, History, and Debates, ed. James Ciment, M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

"Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women." In Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader, eds. Susan H. Armitage with Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Reports

"Norplant: Coercive and Punitive Potential," ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, Washington, D.C., 1993.

ACLU of Southern California, "Use of Excessive Force, Racial Attitudes, and Culture of the Los Angeles Police Department: Report to the Independent Commission on the LAPD," 1991.

ACLU of Southern California, "Campus Ethnoviolence," 1990.

Conference Papers

“The Politics of Homelessness: Shelter Now and Political Protest,” panel Community and Membership Across Nation States, Local Communities, and Private Organizations, Western Political Science Association Conference, Portland, OR, 2004.

"Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women," panel Providing Domestic Violence Services, The National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.

"The Social Construction of Teens and Sex: Sex Education Policy" (co-authored with Alesha Doan), panel (De)constructing Sexuality, Western Political Science Association Conference, Denver, CO, 2003.

"Good Girls or Dirty Ho's? The Social Construction of Sex Education Policy" (co-authored with Alesha Doan), poster session, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2003.

"Abstinence Education and The Politics of Virginity" (co-authored with Alesha Doan), Western Political Science Association Conference, Long Beach, CA, 2002.

"Welfare Reform and Teenage Pregnancy: The Politics of Virginity" (co-authored with Alesha Doan), poster session, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2002.

"The Politics of Welfare Reform and Teenage Pregnancy" (co-authored with Alesha Doan), panel "Women and Public Policy," The American Political Science Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

"Surveillance and Resistance: The Narratives of Homeless and Battered Women," panel “Marginalized Women’s Resistance,” co-organized by Jean Williams, Laury Oaks, and Lorraine Bayard de Volo, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 1999.

"Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry," panel “Cities, Race, and Culture,” The American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, MA, 1998.

"Homeless and Battered Women: Community, Culture, and Social Control," Chair, panel “Voices Addressing Violence,” National Women's Studies Association Conference, Oswego, NY, 1998.

"Constructing Genders: Rape, Representation and the Media" (co-authored with Amelia Kalant), The Law and Society Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 1993.