Elizabeth Bernstein
Professor, Women's Studies and Sociology, Barnard College

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Elizabeth Bernstein

Research Interest

Ethnography
Gender & Sexuality
Biopolitics


Curriculum vitae

Biographical Notes

Elizabeth Bernstein, Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology, joined the faculty of Barnard in September, 2002. Her research and teaching focus on the political economy of the body, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of the award-winning books Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom (University of Chicago Press 2018) and Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press 2007), and co-editor of the volume Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Routledge 2004). She is also a Principal Investigator along with Janet Jakobsen for the Gender Justice and Neoliberal Transformations Working Group,?a collaboration among thirteen scholars working transnationally on questions of gender justice in the contemporary world, which is sponsored by?the Barnard Center for Research on Women (https://bcrw.barnard.edu/projects/transnationalfeminisms/gender-justice-neoliberal-transformations/). She is currently beginning research for a new book project entitled Imagining Immunity: Precarious Bodies and the Governance of Gendered Dis-ease, a feminist analysis of the immunological metaphors that guide common conceptions of bodily risk and suffering, as well as biopolitical interventions designed to address conditions ranging from allergies to autoimmune disorders to infectious disease.
Her research and scholarship have been recognized by awards from the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, AAUW, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Sociological Association.

Education

Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2001

Selected Publications

?Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice. With?Ana Amuchástegui, Sealing Cheng, Abosede George, Maja Horn, Janet Jakobsen, Kerwin Kaye, Tami Navarro, Mark Padilla, Sine Plambech, Mario Pecheny, and Svati Shah. ?London: Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Paradoxes-of-Neoliberalism-Sex-Gender-and-Possibilities-for-Justice/Bernstein-Jakobsen/p/book/9780367511593).
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?Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom, University of Chicago Press.*?https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo28509142.html
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?Sexual Economies and New Regimes of Governance. Guest editor of special issue of?Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, & Society?(22:3).?https://academic.oup.com/sp/article-abstract/21/3/345/2259117?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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?Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex.*??University of Chicago Press.?https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo5298935.html
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Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity. Co-editor, with Laurie Schaffner. Routledge.?https://www.routledge.com/Regulating-Sex-The-Politics-of-Intimacy-and-Identity/Bernstein-Schaffner/p/book/9780415948692
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?“Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations—Introduction to the Special Issue,” with Janet Jakobsen.?The?Scholar and the Feminist Online?(available at?http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publication-sections/sf-online/).

Selected Publications

“Redemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability”

Elizabeth Bernstein
Ann Orloff
Raka Ray

Sexual Economies and New Regimes of Governance

“Sexual Economies and New Regimes of Governance”

Elizabeth Bernstein