The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities
Joan Z. Spadeis professor emerita of sociology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, in Brockport, New York. She received her PhD from the University of Buffalo. She has been teaching and writing in the field for more than 30 years: highlights include a semester teaching in Budapest, Hungary, as a Fulbright Scholar, and authoring articles on rape culture, meaning of work in men’s and women’s lives,  gender and family, and gender in education. She is a coauthor ofSchools and Society:  A Sociological Approach to Education,coeditor ofImplementing Educational Reform: Sociological Perspectives on Educational Policy,and coauthor of articles in sociol­ogy of education on stratification and grouping practices in education. Currently she is researching academic governance in higher educa­tion. She is a member of the ASA, the Eastern Sociological Society, and Sociologists for Women in Society.