This collection contains scholarly articles, reports and other publications authored by faculty members in the Department of Sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
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Submissions from 2023
LGBTQ, Divorces and Separations, Aaron Hoy
LGBTQ, Marriages and Unions, Aaron Hoy
The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage, Aaron Hoy
Submissions from 2022
"It Feels Like We're Together as a Team": Communal Orientations among Married Gay Men and Lesbians, Aaron Hoy
Submissions from 2021
Attitudes toward Spay Neuter in the US Population: Urban-Rural, Cat-Dog and Demographic Differences, Carol L. Glasser
Divorce Ideation and "Deal Breakers" among Married Gay Men and Lesbians: A Qualitative Exploration, Aaron Hoy, Anfa Diiriye, and Emily Gunderson
Who’s Afraid of Divorce? Sexual Minority Young Adults and Their Willingness to Divorce, Aaron Hoy, Jori Nkwenti, and Sachita Pokhrel
Who's Afraid of Divorce? Sexual Minority Young Adults' Perspectives on Divorce, Aaron Hoy, Sachita Pokhrel, and Jori Nkwenti
Same-Sex Sexuality and the Risk of Divorce: Results from Two National Studies, Andrew S. London and Aaron Hoy
Submissions from 2020
Review of Men, Masculinities, and Aging: The Gendered Lives of Old Men by Edward H. Thompson Jr., Aaron Hoy
Review of Stephen M Engel, Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay of Lesbian Lives, Aaron Hoy
When Two Become One? Communal Orientations and Their Challenges among Married Gay Men and Lesbians, Aaron Hoy
Latinx – African American Relations: Understanding the Perceptions of Faculty, Administrators and Students in two College Campuses, Nadarajan Sethuraju and Luis A. Posas
Submissions from 2019
Teaching and Learning Guide: The Experience and Meaning of Same-Sex Sexuality among Heterosexually Identified Men and Women: An Analytic Review, Aaron Hoy and Andrew S. London
'Best Invention, Second to the Dishwasher': Vibrators and Sexual Pleasure, Dennis D. Waskul and Michelle Anklan
Submissions from 2018
Dreaming of Eden: A Sociological Inquiry into Sacred Selves and Public Places, Donald J. Ebel
The Influence of Religious Homogeneity upon Life Expectancy: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis, Donald J. Ebel
Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States (Book Review), Carol L. Glasser
Invisibility, Illegibility, and Stigma: The Citizenship Experiences of Divorced Gays and Lesbians, Aaron Hoy
The Experience and Meaning of Same-Sex Sexuality Among Heterosexually Identified Men and Women: An Analytic Review, Aaron Hoy and Andrew S. London
A Gratuitous Grace: The Influence of Religious Set and Intent on the Psychedelic Experience, Logan Neitzke-Spruill and Carol L. Glasser
Ghosts and Hauntings: Genres, Forms, and Types, Dennis D. Waskul
Introduction: The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History, Dennis D. Waskul and Marc Eaton
The Supernatural in Society, Culture and History, Dennis D. Waskul and Marc Eaton
Submissions from 2017
Catcalled in the Cafeteria: Managing and Teaching through Sexism from Students, Carol L. Glasser
The ABC’s of Vivisection: Animals (Nonhuman), Brutality, and Capitalism, Carol L. Glasser
Invisibility, Illegibility, and Stigma: The Citizenship Experiences of Divorced Gays and Lesbians, Aaron Hoy
Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Different-Sex Marriages, Aaron Hoy and Andrew S. London
Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Marriages, Aaron Hoy and Andrew S. London
Same-Sex Sexuality and the Risk of Divorce: Results from Two National Studies, Andrew S. London and Aaron Hoy
Submissions from 2016
Campaigning with the Enemy: Understanding Opportunity Fields and the Tactic of Corporate Incorporation, Carol L. Glasser
Popular Culture as Everyday Life, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini
Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life, Dennis D. Waskul and Michele E. Waskul
Submissions from 2015
Exploring Cultural Representation of Same-Sex Marriage: A Content Analysis of Wedding Announcements in The New York Times, Aaron Blasvak and Aaron Hoy
Beyond Intersectionality to Total Liberation, Carol L. Glasser
Waves of Contention: Relations Among Radical, Moderate, and Conservative Movement Organizations, Belinda Robnett, Carol L. Glasser, and Rebecca Trammell
Popular Culture as Everyday Life, Phillip Vannini and Dennis D. Waskul
Going to the Bathroom, Dennis D. Waskul
Sex and the Internet, Dennis D. Waskul
Submissions from 2014
Interview with Walter Bond, Current ALF Political Prisoner, Carol L. Glasser
The Radical Debate: A Straw Man in the Movement?, Carol L. Glasser
The Ivory Trap: Bridging the Gap Between Activism and the Academy, Carol L. Glasser and Arpan Roy
Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age, Dennis D. Waskul
Submissions from 2013
Review: African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement (Book Review), Carol L. Glasser
The Performative Body: Dramaturgy, the Body, and Enbodiment, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini
Submissions from 2012
Review: Rio (Film Review), Carol L. Glasser
Making Sense of Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada's Rain Coast, Phillip Vannini, Dennis D. Waskul, Simon Gottschalk, and Toby Ellis-Newstead
Submissions from 2011
Rational Emotions: Animal Rights Theory, Feminist Critiques and Activist Insight, Carol L. Glasser
Review: Vanishing of the Bees (Film Review), Carol L. Glasser
Tied Oppressions: How Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment, Carol L. Glasser
Open Data: USDA Food Recalls, 2006-2010, Carol L. Glasser and Humane Research Council
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture : a Sociology of the Senses, Phillip Vannini, Dennis D. Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk
Submissions from 2010
Review: Skin Trade (Film Review), Carol L. Glasser
Representing and Performing Taste at Wine Festivals: A Somatic, Layered Account, Phillip Vannini, Guppy Ahluwalia-Lopez, Dennis D. Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk
Sound Acts: Elocution, Somatic Work, and the Performance of Sonic Alignment, Phillip Vannini, Dennis D. Waskul, Simon Gottschalk, and Carol Rambo
Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights (Book Review), Dennis D. Waskul
Now the Orgy is Over, Dennis D. Waskul and Justin A. Martin
Sex(ualities) and Symbolic Interaction, Dennis D. Waskul and Rebecca F. Plante
How Do I Rate? Nude 'Rate Me' Websites and Gendered Looking Glasses, Dennis D. Waskul and Cheryl Radeloff
Submissions from 2009
Internet Daters’ Body Types Preferences: Race-Ethnic and Gender Differences, Carol L. Glasser, Belinda Robnett, and Cynthia Feliciano
My Boyfriend Loves it When I Come Home from this Class': Pedagogy, Titillation, and New Media Technologies, Dennis D. Waskul
The Importance of Insincerity and Inauthenticity for Self and Society: Honesty is Not the Best Policy, Dennis D. Waskul
The Aroma of Recollections: Olfaction, Notalgia, and the Shaping of the Sensuous Self, Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini, and Janelle Wilson
Paddle and Portage: The Travail of BWCA Canoe Travel, Dennis D. Waskul and Michele E. Waskul
Submissions from 2008
Online M@tchmaking (Book Review), Carol L. Glasser
Symbolic Interactionism: The Play and Fate of Meaning in Everyday Life, Dennis D. Waskul
Ludic and (Ludic)rous Relationships: Sex, Play, and the Internet, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini
Smell, Odor, and Somatic Work: Sense-Making and Sensory Management, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini
Submissions from 2007
Women and their Clitoris: Personal Discovery, Signification, and Use, Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini, and Desiree Wiesen
Mundane Life in a Media Age, J. Patrick Williams and Dennis D. Waskul
Submissions from 2006
Contested Illness: Managing the Uncertainities of Gulf-War Illness, Thomas Shriver and Dennis D. Waskul
Body-Ekstasis: Socio-Somatic Reflections on Surpassing the Dualism of Body-Image, Phillip Vannini and Dennis D. Waskul
Symbolic Interaction as Music: Esthetic Constitution of Meaning, Self, and Society, Phillip Vannini and Dennis D. Waskul
First Persons: Dennis Waskul, Dennis D. Waskul
Internet Sex: The Seductive 'Freedom To', Dennis D. Waskul
The Role-Playing Game and the Game of Role-Playing: The Ludic Self and Everyday Life, Dennis D. Waskul
Body/Embodiment : Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini
Introduction: The Body in Symbolic Interaction, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini
Submissions from 2005
Ekstasis and the Internet: Liminality and Computer-Mediated Communication, Dennis D. Waskul
Submissions from 2004
Net.seXXX : Readings on Sex, Pornography, and the Internet, Dennis D. Waskul
Sex and the Internet: Old Thrills in a New World; New Thrills in an Old World, Dennis D. Waskul
Role Playing and Playing Roles: The Person, Player, and Persona in Fantasy Role-Playing Games, Dennis D. Waskul and Matthew Lust
Submissions from 2003
Self-Games and Body-Play: Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex, Dennis D. Waskul
Submissions from 2002
The Naked Self: Being a Body in Televideo Cybersex, Dennis D. Waskul
The Abject Embodiment of Cancer Patients: Dignity, Selfhood, and the Grotesque Body, Dennis D. Waskul and Pamela van der Riet
Submissions from 2001
Things Are Not What They Seem: Readings in Sociology, Dennis D. Waskul
Submissions from 2000
Cybersex: Outercourse and the Enselfment of the Body, Dennis D. Waskul, Mark Douglass, and Charles Edgley
Submissions from 1998
Camp Staffing: The Construction, Maintenance, and Dissolution of Roles and Identities at a Summer Camp, Dennis D. Waskul
Readings in Sociology, Dennis D. Waskul
Submissions from 1997
Cyberself: The Dynamics of Self in Online Chat, Dennis D. Waskul and Mark Douglass
Submissions from 1996
Considering the Electronic Participant: Some Polemical Observations on the Ethics of Online Research, Dennis D. Waskul and Mark Douglass
