Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts; Affiliated Faculty, Dept of Sociology
Chris Bobel's scholarship lies at the intersection of social movements, gender, health and embodiment, or how feminist thinking becomes feminist doing at the most intimate and immediate levels. She is the author, most recently, of The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South, winner of the 2020 Sociology of Development (ASA) outstanding book award. Her other books include The Paradox of Natural Mothering, New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation and Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms and Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, Transformations (both co-edited with Samantha Kwan). She is also lead editor of the open access, Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies.
Chris is is past president of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.
She finds what is often hidden, shamed and often sorely misunderstood -- sites where social norms, cultural anxieties and political agendas come to life-- an endlessly fascinating subject of inquiry. She is at work on a new ethnographic project exploring contemporary activism inspired by grief and trauma.
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About Chris Bobel
Chris Bobel's scholarship lies at the intersection of social movements, gender, health and embodiment, or how feminist thinking becomes feminist doing at the most intimate and immediate levels. She is the author, most recently, of The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South, winner of the 2020 Sociology of Development (ASA) outstanding book award. Her other books include The Paradox of Natural Mothering, New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation and Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms and Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, Transformations (both co-edited with Samantha Kwan). She is also lead editor of the open access, Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies.
Chris is is past president of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.
She finds what is often hidden, shamed and often sorely misunderstood -- sites where social norms, cultural anxieties and political agendas come to life-- an endlessly fascinating subject of inquiry. She is at work on a new ethnographic project exploring contemporary activism inspired by grief and trauma.
| Present | Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2018 - Present | Member, Menstrual Health & Gender Justice Working Group-Center for the Study of Social Difference | 2015 - Present | Member of the Editorial Board, Signs | 2013 - Present | Founding Member of the Editorial Board, Women's Reproductive Health | 1998 - Present | Member, National Women's Studies Association | 1996 - Present | Member, Sociologists for Women in Society | 2006 - 2020 | Past Board Member, Graduate Consortium in Gender, Culture, Women and Sexuality | 2013 - 2015 | Past President, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research | Past Department Chair, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston |
Courses
- Affect, Grief, Activism: Transforming Pain into Purpose in the Aftermath of Traumatic Loss [microseminar]
- WGS Internship Seminar
- Feminist Inquiry
- Critical Menstruation Studies [microseminar]
- Gender, Health & Marginalization through a Critical Intersectional Feminist Lens
- Gendered Bodies
- Feminisms, Intersectionality and Social Justice: Histories, Debates, Futures
- Feminist Research Seminar
- Feminist Activism
- Women, Gender and Sexuality in the US
- Radical Voices of Resistance: Gender, Race and US Social Movements
| 1993 - 1999 | PhD, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee ‐ Urban Studies | |
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Links
- Menstrual Health Hub
- Menstrual Hygiene Day
- Menstruation Matters (blog)
- Women's Reproductive Health (journal)
- Signs (journal)
- The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality
- Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
- Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
- College of Liberal Arts
- University of Massachusetts Boston
