Tina Fetner
tina.fetner@mcmaster.ca
905.525.9140 x23623

Sociology Department
McMaster University
1280 Main St W
Hamilton, ON L8S 4M4
Canada

CURRICULUM VITAE

Tina Fetner

Education

Ph.D. Sociology. 2001. New York University, New York, NY
M.A. Sociology. 1996. New York University, New York, NY
B.A. Economics. 1990. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Scholarly Interests

Sexualities
Social Movements
Gender
Political Sociology

Book

Tina Fetner. 2008. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Journal Articles

Tina Fetner, Athena Elafros, Sandra Bortolin and Coralee Drechsler. Forthcoming. "Safe Spaces: Gay-Straight Alliances in High School." Canadian Review of Sociology.

Robert Andersen and Tina Fetner. 2008. "Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies." American Journal of Political Science 52:942-58.

Robert Andersen and Tina Fetner. 2008. "Cohort Differences in Tolerance of Homosexuality: Attitudinal Change in Canada and the United States, 1981-2000." Public Opinion Quarterly 72:311-330.

Tina Fetner and Kristin Kush. 2008. "Lesbian and Gay Activism in High Schools: The Emergence of Gay-Straight Alliances." Youth & Society 40:114-30.

Tina Fetner. 2005. "Ex-gay Rhetoric and the Politics of Sexuality: The Christian Antigay/Pro-family Movement's 'Truth in Love' Ad Campaign." Journal of Homosexuality 50:71-96.

Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, Tina Fetner and Michael P. Young. 2002. "Challengers and States: Toward a Political Sociology of Social Movements." Sociological Views on Political Participation in the 21st Century. Research in Political Sociology 10:47-83.

Tina Fetner. 2001. "Working Anita Bryant: The Impact of Christian Antigay Activism on Lesbian and Gay Movement Claims." Social Problems 48:411-28.

Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom and Tina Fetner. 2001. "Sharing Secrets Slowly: Issues of Classroom Self-Disclosure Raised by Student Sex Workers." Teaching Sociology 29:439-53.

Book Chapters

Tina Fetner and Carrie B. Sanders. Forthcoming. "Similar Strategies, Different Outcomes: Institutional Histories of the Christian Right of Canada and of the United States." Chapter 11 in Deana Rohlinger, Greg Maney, Rachel Kutz-Flamembaum, and Jeff Goodwin, eds. Strategies for Social Change. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Tina Fetner. Forthcoming. "Religious Right Activism in Canada and the United States: Are We Headed in the Same Direction?" Chapter in Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau & Stephen Heathorn, eds. The Sixties and Beyond: Dechristianization as History in Britain, Canada, the United States and Western Europe, 1945-2000. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Tina Fetner and Carrie B. Sanders. 2011. "The Pro-Family Movement in Canada and the United States: Institutional Histories and Barriers to Diffusion." Pp. 87-100 in David Rayside and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Jackie Smith and Tina Fetner. 2007. "Structural Approaches to Social Movements." Chapter in Conny Roggeband and Bert Klandermans, eds. Handbook of Social Movements across Disciplines NY: Springer Press.

Tina Fetner. 2006. "The Pro-Family Movement." Chapter 59 in Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer and Chet Meeks, eds. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies London and NY: Routledge.

Other Publications

Tina Fetner. 2010. Review of Queer Mobilizations by Scott Barclay, Mary Bernstein, and Anna-Maria Marshall, eds. (2009, NY: NYU Press). American Journal of Sociology, 116:305-307.

Tina Fetner. 2009. Review of Dividends of Dissent by Amin Ghaziani (2008, Chicago: U of Chicago Press). Canadian Journal of Sociology , 34:518-20.

Tina Fetner. 2006. Review of Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences by Laura M. Carpenter (2005, NY: NYU Press). Gender & Society, 20:681-83.

Tina Fetner. 2006. Review of The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, their Childresn, and the Undoing of Gender by Maureen Sullivan (2004, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press). Qualitative Sociology, 29:425-26.

Tina Fetner. 2004. "Comment." Globe and Mail (online edition), October 21, 2004. An op-ed on Christian Right leader Pater Robertson's evaluation of George W. Bush's preparedness for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Tina Fetner. 2003. Review of Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States by Janice M. Irvine (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press). American Sexuality Magazine, vol.1 no. 3.

Tina Fetner. 2000. "Pornography" "Prostitution." Encyclopedia subject entry in World of Sociology, Joseph M. Palmisano, ed. Michigan: Gale Group.

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