Jean Williams
Fields
- American Politics
- Social Welfare Policy
- Cultural Politics
Contact Information
- Office: Building 47, Room 11B
- Phone: 805-756-2960
- E-mail: jemwilli@calpoly.edu
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1998
Research Interests
- Homelessness and social welfare policy
- Social movements
- Gender and sex education policy
Classes
- The Politics of Poverty
- Social Movements and Political Protest
- Politics of Ethnicity and Gender
- California Politics
- Critical Issues in American Politics
- Introduction to Women's Studies
Publications (published under Jean Calterone Williams)
The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education (coauthor Alesha E. Doan), Praeger Publishers, 2008.
"Homeless Women: Domestic Violence and Housing Instability." In Homelessness in America, ed. Robert Hartmann McNamara, Praeger Publishers, 2008.
"Sex Education" (coauthor Alesha E. Doan). In Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia of Controversies, History, and Debates, ed. James Ciment, M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
"The Politics of Homelessness: Shelter Now and Political Protest," Political Research Quarterly, (September 2005).
"A Roof Over My Head": Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry, University Press of Colorado, 2003.
"Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women." In Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader, eds. Susan H. Armitage with Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
"Building A Movement: Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique," review of Betty Friedan: Her Life, by Judith Hennessee and Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism, by Daniel Horowitz, Radical History Review 80 (Spring 2001).
"Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women," Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 19:2 (1998).
"Geography of The Homeless Shelter: Staff Surveillance and Residents’ Resistance," Urban Anthropology 25:1 (Spring 1996).