AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Gender and Sexualities, Collective Identity, Social Movements, Feminist Theories, Race and Class, Bodies and Health, and Intersectionality.
PUBLICATIONS
Whitlock, Mary Catherine, and Zoe DuPree Fine. 2012. “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: Analyzing Homonormativity in The Kids are All Right.” Humanity and Society. 36(2): 178-185.
FORTHCOMING
Whitlock, MC. 2020. “Threads of Third Wave: Styling Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby.” In edited collection Uniformly Discussed: Sportswomen’s Apparel Around the World by Linda K. Fuller.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Whitlock, MC. “The Myth of Progress: Disputing Feminisms” Under Review at Gender Studies.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Whitlock, MC. “I never realized that sex between two women was not safe”:Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women Making Sense of Safer Sex Practices” In preparation for Culture, Health, and Society.
Crawley, S, MC Whitlock, and J Earles. “Queering Dorothy Smith: Developing a Comparative Historical Institutional Ethnography.”
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
“The Myth of Progress: Disputing Feminisms” Presentation at Society for Study
of Symbolic Interactionism Summer Meeting, New York City, NY. 2019.
Invited Panelist on “Lavender Vitas and Navigating the Job Market.” Presentation for the Southern Sociological Society’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality. New Orleans, LA. 2018.
Panelist on “Feminists in the Field.” Presentation for the Sociologists for Women
in Society. Atlanta, GA. 2018.
“’We may integrate work wise, but then you go to your separate corners’:
Making Space for Race and Place in Feminist Communities in the South” Presentation at Society for Study of Symbolic Interactionism Summer Meeting in Seattle, Washington. 2016.
“’A Welcoming Place That Wasn’t Meant For Us’: Color-Blind Racial Politics in
Feminist Communities in the South” Presentation at Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. 2016.
“Bodily Locations: Institutional Ethnographies and Ethnographic Entry.”
Presentation for the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting. 2015.
“Queering Dorothy Smith: Developing a Comparative Historical Institutional
Ethnography.” Presentation at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction’s Couch Stone Symposium with J Earles, and S Crawley. 2015.
““I never realized that sex between two women was not safe”: Lesbian, Bisexual,
and Queer Women Making Sense of Safer Sex Practices” Presentation for “Sexualities on the Edge” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting. 2014.
“Raising Proper Southern Revolutionaries: Narrativizing Youth Organizations at
the Feminist Bookstore” Presentation at the Sociologists for Women in Society
Winter Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee. 2014.
“Get It Girl!: Invoking Third Wave Feminist Rhetoric In Women’s Roller Derby” Roundtable Presentation at the Sociologists for Women in Society 2013 Winter Meeting, Tamaya, New Mexico. February 2013.
“Let’s Get Personal: Blogging about Sensitive Topics in a Human Sexual Behavior Course” Presentation at the Southern Sociological Society 2012 Meeting. New Orleans, LA. March 2012.
“Technology as Empowerment: A Look at the Utilization of Technology in Feminist Classrooms” Roundtable presentation at the Sociologist for Women in Society 2012 Winter Meeting, St. Pete, FL. February 2012.
“Working It Out: The Rhetoric of Wii Fit” Presentation at the National Women's Studies Association 2011 conference, “Feminist Transformations.” Atlanta, GA. November 2011.
“We're Not All Right: Analyzing Queerness and the Homonational Subject in The Kids Are All Right” Presentation at the 2011 Southeast Women’s Studies Association conference, "Structural Adjustments: Queering Privatization, Framing Disaster." Atlanta, GA. March 2011.
“Questioning the Good Life Through Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality” Panel presentation at the 2010 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender national conference. St. Petersburg, FL. October 15, 2010.
INVITED CAMPUS PANELS
2018 “Inclusivity and Diversity” Teaching Circle Talk and Workshop at Georgia Southwestern State University.
2018 “Panorama: Activism in the Age of Social Media” at Georgia Southwestern State University.