Department of Sociology

Sociology

Carol Wolkowitz

Carol Wolkowitz

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Sociology
Room R3.36
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
Tel: 024 76523159
Email: C.Wolkowitz@warwick.ac.uk
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RESEARCH PROFILE


Carol Wolkowitz is a Reader in the Department of Sociology. Her research has involved a number of different areas of gender studies. She has a long-standing interest in gender in Indian history and politics, stemming from her doctoral research on women politicians' careers in South India. Since then much of her work has focused on gender and employment. She is co-author of two books on homeworking and home-located work, Homeworking Women: Gender, Class and Racism at Work (1995) and Homeworking: Myths and Realities (1987). In 2006 she published Bodies at Work (Sage), exploring 'body work' and the relation between embodiment, gender and the labour process. Her other publications include the Glossary of Feminist Theory (1997), with Terry Lovell and Sonya Andermahr, and several articles exploring the use of personal narratives to understand women's roles in the American communities established by the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. She was also co-editor of Of Marriage and the Market: Women's Subordination in International Perspective (1981 and 1985). Besides supervising PhD theses on a wide range of topics, she teaches a postgraduate module on Sex, Gender and Power and the visual methods component of the MA qualitative methods module.  At undergraduate level she convenes Sexuality and Society and co-teaches Visual Sociology


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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Wolkowitz C,Edwards P E, (2002) 'Sociology of Employment in Britain' in Worlds of Work, 253 - 273, Editors: Cornfield, D. and Hodson, R. (0306466058), New York: Llewer/Plenum
  • Dr Carol Wolkowitz,J. Twigg, R. Cohen, S. Nettleton and C. Wolkowitz , (2011) 'Body Work in Health and Social Care' Sociology Of Health And Illness (0141-9889)
  • Dr Carol Wolkowitz,Cacchioni, T, (2011) 'Sexual Therapy as Body Work' Sociology Of Health And Illness (0141-9889)
  • Wolkowitz, C. (2010) 'Extended Book review: Embodiment in global economy', Signs, 36(1), 245 - 249, Reviewed work(s): Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities. By Linda McDowell. Oxford: Wiley©\Blackwell, 2009. Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives. By Donna Dickenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights and Development. Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Corr¨ºa, and Susie Jolly. London: Zed, 2008. [Book Review] [view]
  • Wolkowitz, C. and Warhurst, C.(2010) 'Embodying labour' in Working life: renewing labour process analysis, 223 - 243, Editors: Thompson, P. and Smith, C. (9780230222236), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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