Faculty Member

Christine Ward Gailey
(Professor, Ph.D. 1981 New School for Social Research)
Office: 1146 Watkins Hall
Phone: (951) 827-6426
E-mail: christine.gailey@ucr.edu
Website: http://womensstudies.ucr.edu/people/gailey/gailey.html

Christine Gailey is Chair of the Department of Women's Studies. Professor Gailey's abiding concern is with the formation and articulation of gender hierarchies under conditions of domination, and cultural forms of resistance to those conditions. Her research addresses gender and state formation; gender, race, and class dynamics in U.S. adoption; transformations of gender relations in colonization; feminist methodologies; gendered violence and family formation; constructions of race in colonialism; gender and video games; grassroots women's responses to development agendas; child labor; and the politics of culture. She has conducted field research in the Tongan Islands and in the United States. Professor Gailey teaches courses on gender and sexuality, kinship and social change, feminist methods in research, reproductive policy and politics, and violence against women.

Selected Publications: "'Whatever They Think of Us, We're a Family': Race, Gender, and Single Mother Adopters" in Katerina Wegar, ed., In Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society (Rutgers University Press, in press, two articles); "Urchins, Orphans, Monsters, and Victims: Depictions of Adoptees in US Commercial Film" in Katerina Wegar, ed., In Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming); Blue Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practices. (Austin: University of Texas Press, in press); "Adoptive Families in the United States" in Scott Coltrane, ed., In Families and Society: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004); "Richard Lee: The Politics, Art, and Science of Anthropology" in Anthropologica (Canada: 2003); "Community, State, and Questions of Social Evolution in Marx's Ethnological Notebooks" in Anthropologica (Canada: 2003); "Race, Class, and Gender in Intercountry Adoption in the U.S.A." in Peter Selman, ed., International Perspectives on Intercountry Adoption (London: Skyline House, 2002); "Ideologies of Motherhood in U.S. Adoption" in Helena Ragone and Frances Winddance Twine, eds., Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood (Routledge, 2000); "Seeking 'Baby Right': Race, Class, and Gender in US International Adoption" in Anne-Lise Rygvold et al, eds., Yours, Mine, Ours … and Theirs: International Adoption (University of Oslo, 2000); "Rethinking Child Labor in an Age of Capitalist Restructuring" in Critique of Anthropology (1999); "Feminist Methods" in H. Russell Bernard, ed., Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (AltaMira/Sage, 1998); "Making Kinship in the Wake of History: Gendered Violence and Older Child Adoption" in Identities: Studies in Global Power and Culture (1998); "Women and the Democratization Movement in the Tongan Islands: Nation versus State, Authority versus Power" in Women's Studies International Forum (1998); "Politics, Colonialism, and the Mutable Color of Pacific Islanders" in Larry Reynolds and Leonard Lieberman, eds., Race and Other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu (General Hall, 1996); and the two-volume edited set, Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond: Civilization in Crisis and The Politics of Culture and Creativity (University Press of Florida, 1992); Kinship to Kingship: Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands (Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology, No 14, 1988); Power Relations and State Formation (American Anthropological Association, 1987, edited with Thomas Patterson).