Beth Kelly

Courses Taught

• WGS 300 Feminist Theories
• WGS 332/432 Creating Change: Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Politics
• WGS 354 Contemporary Knitting: Gender Craft & Community Service
• WGS 395 Senior Seminar
• WGS 326/PSC 363 Women & Law
• LGQ 150 Intro. to LGBTQ Studies
• PSC 217 Women and U.S. Politics
• WGS 338/438 Sexual Justice: Lesbians, Gays, and the Law
• Queer Pioneers
• LSP 200 Sex and Power in U.S. Politics

Areas of Interest

• Feminist Theory
• LBGT Politics
• Critical Theory
• Women and Politics
• Queer Theory
• Global Gender Issues
• Democracy and Educaiton

Major Publications

• "Three Lives: Conversations on Solidarity and Difference", with Frida Kerner Furman and Linda Williamson Nelson. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
• "A House Made of Words: Class, Education, and Dissidence in Three Lives", John Freeman-Moir and Alan Scott, eds. "Yesterday's Dreams: International and Critical Perspectives on Education and Social Class", University of Canterbury Press , 2002
• "In Goldilocks' Footsteps: Exploring the Discursive Construction of Gay Masculinity in Bear Magazines," with Kate Kane, Eric Rofes and Sara Miles eds. "Opposite Sex: Lesbians and Gay Men Writing About Each Other's Sexuality", New York University Press, 1998
• "Grounds for Criticism: Coffee, Passion, and the Politics of Feminist Discourse", in Lois Lovelace Duke, "Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders?", rev. ed., Prentice-Hall, 1995 and 3rd ed., Prentice-Hall, 1998
• "Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge", Westview Press, 1995 Recipient of Michael Harrington Award for Best Book published in 1995 from New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association.