Other, please specify: queer methods in sociology

Introduction : queer work in a straight discipline / Kristen Schilt, Tey Meadow, and D'Lane Compton -- The "not sociology" problem / Kristen Schilt -- The methods gatekeepers and the exiled queers / Jane Ward -- Trans issue in sociology : a trans-centered perspective / Emilia Lombardi -- Beyond academia : strategies for using LGBT research to influence public policy / Gary J. Gates and Jody L. Herman -- Pornographics as queer method / Angela Jones -- Not out in the field : studying privacy and disclosure as an invisible (trans) man / Cayce C. Hughes -- Thank you for coming out today : the queer discomforts of in-depth interviewing / Catherine Connell -- Studying the "right" can feel wrong : reflections on researching anti-LGBT movements / Tina Fetner and Melanie Heath -- The mess : on queer vulnerability as ethnographic practice / Tey Meadow -- Challenges, triumphs, and praxis : collecting qualitative data on less visible and marginalized populations / Mignon R. Moore -- How many (queer) cases do I need? : thinking through research design / D'Lane Compton -- Queer spatial analysis / Amin Ghaziani -- Queer persistence in the archive / Amy L. Stone -- Gendering carnal ethnography : a queer reception / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Translation as queer methodology / Evren Savci -- Queer and punishment : sexual social control and the legacy of "nuts, sluts and preverts" / Trevor Hoppe -- The demography of sexuality : queering demographic methods / Amanda K. Baumle -- What to do with actual people? : thinking through a queer social science method / C.J. Pascoe -- Queer accounting : methodological investments and disinvestments / Carla A. Pfeffer.

This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific research, Other, Please Specify presents to a new generation of researchers an array of experiences, insights, and approaches, revealing the power of investigations of the social world. With contributions from sociologists who have helped define queer studies and who use a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies in research design and execution, all with the intent of getting queer research off the ground and building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield

"Located within the critical conversation about what it might mean to 'queer' research methods that has developed over the past decade in conference panels, workshops, edited volumes, and journal symposia, Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology presents an array of experiences, insights, and approaches that show the power of queer investigations of the social world and of the disciplinary conventions of sociology. Incorporating the experiences of sociologists who utilize a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies for getting queer research off the ground and for building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield"--Provided by publisher