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Jean Williams

Photograph of Professor Jean Williams

Fields

  • American Politics
  • Social Welfare Policy
  • Cultural Politics

Contact Information

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)

Books

Jean Calterone Williams and Alesha E. Doan. (2008). The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education. NY: Praeger Publishers.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2003). "A Roof Over My Head": Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Nominee, The Michael Harrington Book Award. Nominee, The Leeds Prize.

Journal Articles

Jean Calterone Williams. (2011). "'Stand Up and Be Counted': The Politics of a Homeless Enumeration," Poverty & Public Policy, 3:3.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2011). “Battling a Sex-Saturated Society: The Abstinence Movement and the Politics of Sex Education.” Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society, 14:4, 416-443.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2005). "The Politics of Homelessness: Shelter Now and Political Protest." Political Research Quarterly, 58:3, 497-509.

Jean Calterone Williams. (1998). "Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women." Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 19:2, 143-165. J

Jean Calterone Williams. (1996). "Geography of The Homeless Shelter: Staff Surveillance and Residents’ Resistance." Urban Anthropology, 25:1, 75-113.

Book Chapters

Jean Calterone Williams. (2008). "Homeless Women: Domestic Violence and Housing Instability." In Robert Hartmann McNamara (Ed.), Homelessness in America (pp. 57-74). NY: Praeger Publishers.

Jean Calterone Williams and Alesha E. Doan. (2006). "Sex Education." In James Ciment (Ed.), Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia of Controversies, History, and Debates. M.E. Sharpe.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2002). "Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women." In Susan H. Armitage with Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon (Eds.), Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Book Reviews

Jean Calterone Williams. (2001). “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, 149-153.

Reports

“Homeless Enumeration Report: San Luis Obispo County, California,” The Homeless Services Coordinating Council, 2009 (Contributor).

“Homeless Enumeration Report: San Luis Obispo County, California,” The Homeless Services Coordinating Council, 2006 (Contributor).

"Norplant: Coercive and Punitive Potential," ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, Washington, D.C., 1993 (Primary author).

"Use of Excessive Force, Racial Attitudes, and Culture of the Los Angeles Police Department: Report to the Independent Commission on the LAPD," ACLU of Southern California, 1991 (Contributor).

"Campus Ethnoviolence," ACLU of Southern California, 1990 (Contributor).