Sex
and Body Industry Research Project (SABIR)
Publications:
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Brents, "Sexual Politics from Barnard to Las Vegas,” The Communication Review, 11(3): 237–246, 2008 |
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Brents and Hausbeck, "Marketing Sex: US Legal Brothels
and Late Capitalist Consumption," Sexualities 10(4):425-439, 2007. |
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Brents
and Hausbeck, “Violence
and Legalized Brothel Prostitution in Nevada: Examining
Safety, Risk and Prostitution Policy,” Journal of Interpersonal
Violence 20(3):270-295, 2005. |
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| Brents and Hausbeck,
“State Sanctioned
Sex: Negotiating Formal and Informal Regulations in Nevada Brothels,”
Sociological Perspectives 44(3):307-332, 2001. |
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| Hausbeck and Brents, “Inside Nevada’s
Brothel System,” pp. 217-243 in Ron Weitzer, ed.,
Sex for Sale:
Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry. NY: Routledge, 2000. |
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| Hausbeck and Brents, “McDonaldization of
the Sex Industries: The Business of Sex,” in George Ritzer, ed.,
McDonaldization: The Reader, Pine Forge Press, Feb. 2002. |
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| Hausbeck and Brents,
“Prostitution–Nevada,” in the Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant
Behavior, Vol 3 Sexual Deviance, edited by Nanette Davis and Gilbert
Geis, Taylor and Francis 2000. |
Selected papers presented:
| "Fractured Femininity in late capitalist sex work:
Nevada's sex industry" Paper presented at the International
Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Work and Organisation at Keele
University,UK June 27-29, 2007. Crystal Jackson and Barb Brents. |
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"What is Wrong
With Prostitution? Assessing Exploitation in Legal Brothels." Paper
presented at the American Sociological Association annual meetings,
Montreal, August 2006. Barb Brents and Kate Hausbeck. |
| “The
Politics of Passing & Coming out in Auto-ethnographic Fieldwork:
Performing Feminist Research on the Sex Industry.” Paper presented
at the Western Social Science Association annual meetings, Las Vegas,
NV, April 2003. Kathryn Hausbeck and Barb Brents. |
| "Brothels, Bodies, Politics: The Meaning of Sex in a
Commercial Space." Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological
Association annual meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2002. Hausbeck
and Brents. |
| “The Lay of the Land: Political Culture and Cultural
Politics in Nevada’s Brothels,” Society for the Study of Social Problems
annual meetings, Washington D.C., August 2000. Brents and Hausbeck. |
| “Pro-Family, Pro-Prostitute: Culture and Politics in
a Nevada Brothel Town,” presented at the Midwest Sociological
Association annual meetings, Chicago, April 2000. Hausbeck and Brents. |
| “The Business of Sex as a Social Movement:
Mobilization, Politics and Culture in the Adult Video and Nevada Brothel
Industries,” presented at the American Sociological Association
meetings, Chicago, August 1999. Brents and Hausbeck. |
| “Recent Developments in Sex Industry Research,” panel
presentation, National Women’s Studies Association, Albuquerque, June
1999. |
| “The World’s Oldest Profession: Alive and Well in Sin
City,” presented at the Far West Popular Culture Association Annual
Meetings, Las Vegas, NV Feb 1999. Hausbeck and Brents. |
| “Bureaucratic Seductions: McDonaldizing the Sex
Industry, Sexualizing Post-Fordism?” Presented at the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August 1998. Hausbeck and
Brents |
| “Images of Women in Las Vegas,” Paper presented at
the National Women’s Studies Association, Oswego, NY, June 1998.
Hausbeck and Brents. |
| “Bodies, Business and Politics: Corporate
Mobilization and the Sex Industries,” Paper presented at the Midwest
Sociological Society, Kansas City, April 1998. Brents and Hausbeck. |
| “The Body for Sale: Analyzing the Rhetoric of Illegal
Prostitution in Las Vegas,” Paper presented at the Society for the Study
of Social Problems, Toronto, August 1997, Hausbeck and Brents. |
| “Clothed Women in an Undressed Industry,” Paper
presented at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction meetings,
Toronto, August 1997, Hausbeck and Brents. |
| “The Price of Admission: Sex Work and the Body
Industry” Paper presented at the National Women’s Studies Association
Conference, June 1996. Hausbeck and Brents. |
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Terrorism and Social Movements
Skinhead Movement
Publications:
| Simi, Pete and Barb Brents “Renegade Youth: Origins
and Trends in the Racist Skinhead Subculture” in David Brotherton and
Michael Flynn, Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on
Youth, Social Control and Empowerment in the New Millennium, Columbia
University Press, forthcoming 2007. |
Grants
| 2002 National Science Foundation Dissertation
Improvement Grant, in which I was the Advisor/Co-PI for Pete Simi,
“Biographical Outcomes of Right Wing Activism.” |
| 2001 UNLV SITE Grant, $5000, “Biographical Outcomes of
Right Wing Activism,” with Pete Simi. |
Autoethnography
| Brents, Barbara G., “Dale Carnegie, The Carpenters,
and Cambodia” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 27(4):435-460,
January 1999. |
| Brents, Barbara G. and Melissa Monson, “White Washing
the Strip: Confonting White Privilege in Las Vegas,” in Joe Kincheloe,
Shirley Steinberg, Nelson Rodrigues, and Ronald Chennault (eds.),
White
Reign: Learning and Deploying Whiteness, St. Martin's Press 1998. |
Political sociology,
welfare state
| Brents, Barbara G., "Class Political Organizing and
Welfare Capitalism," Critical Sociology, 19(1):69-101, 1992. |
| Jenkins, J. Craig and Barbara G. Brents,
"Capitalists
and Social Security: What Did They Really Want? A Reply to Amenta and
Parikh," American Sociological Review, 56(1):129-132, 1991. |
| Jenkins, J. Craig and Barbara G. Brents,
"Social
Protest, Hegemonic Competition and Social Reform: The Political Origins
of the American Welfare State," American Sociological Review,
54(6):891-909, 1989. |
| Brents, Barbara G., "Policy Intellectuals, Class
Struggle and the Construction of Old Age: The Creation of the Social
Security Act of 1935," Social Science and Medicine, 23(12):1251-1260,
1986. |
| Brents, Barbara G., "Capitalism, Corporate Liberalism and Social Policy:
The Origins of the Social Security Act of 1935," Mid-American Review of
Sociology, 9(1):23-40, 1984. |
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