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Congratulations to Stacy J. Williams, who has had yet another research piece accepted for publication.  Her article, “Personal Prefigurative Politics: Cooking Up an Ideal Society in the Woman’s Temperance and Woman’s Suffrage Movements, 1870-1920” is forthcoming in The Sociological Quarterly.

Abstract: The literature on prefigurative politics currently suffers from an organizational bias. To reduce this bias, I demonstrate how the personal sphere can be prefigurative. An analysis of woman’s temperance and woman’s suffrage newspaper articles about cooking reveals that these activists advocated cooking in ways that would prefigure their visions of social change within individual families. Therefore, this article broadens the concept of prefigurative politics beyond organizations, expanding it to the home. I demonstrate that the home is a site of social movement action, where women in particular may campaign for social change.

In April grad student Kelly Nielsen had a chapter titled, “Beyond ‘Warming Up’ and ‘Cooling Out’: The Effects of Community College on a Diverse Group of Disadvantaged Young Women” published in a Routledge volume called Inequality, Power and School Success Case Studies on Racial Disparity and Opportunity in Education, edited by Gilberto Conchas and Michael Gottfried. Info on the book can be found athttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138837881/

Kelly has recently learned that a paper of his that was conditionally accepted in the first round of reviews has been accepted for publication in the journal Sociology of Education. The paper, titled, “’Fake It ‘Til You Make It’: Why Community College Students’ Aspirations ‘Hold Steady’” will be published in the October issue.

Both of these pieces are from his dissertation research. Congratulations Kelly!

Pablo’s article, “The end of a traditional class distinction in neoliberal society: ‘White-collar’ and ‘blue-collar’ work and its impact on Chilean workers’ class consciousness” has been accepted by the journal Critical Sociology. Based on survey data and interviews with Chilean workers in different sectors, Pablo shows that white-collar employees are no less class conscious than the “traditional” proletariat.

Congrats, Pablo!