@article{wills_risman_2006, title={The visibility of feminist thought in family studies}, volume={68}, ISSN={["0022-2445"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00283.x}, abstractNote={ We assessed feminist visibility in family journals by tallying the feminist content of articles in Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, and Family Relations. There was an increase in feminist visibility from 1972 to 1992, at which point the growth of visibility stalled. From 1992 to 2002, almost 1 out of 4 articles appeared to be influenced, at least minimally, by feminist scholarship when including in our tally a measure of articles' mentioning of gender in its abstract or title without a detectable feminist perspective in the article. Only about 6% of articles, however, involved an explicit feminist analysis. We offer explanations for this apparent glass ceiling for feminist visibility and make suggestions for future research.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY}, author={Wills, Jeremiah B. and Risman, Barbara J.}, year={2006}, month={Aug}, pages={690–700} }
 @misc{risman_2005, title={The  commercialization of intimate life: Notes from home and work}, volume={34}, number={2}, journal={Contemporary Sociology}, author={Risman, B. J.}, year={2005}, pages={128–131} }
 @article{risman_2004, title={Gender as a social structure - Theory wrestling with activism}, volume={18}, ISSN={["0891-2432"]}, DOI={10.1177/0891243204265349}, abstractNote={ In this article, the author argues that we need to conceptualize gender as a social structure, and by doing so, we can better analyze the ways in which gender is embedded in the individual, interactional, and institutional dimensions of our society. To conceptualize gender as a structure situates gender at the same level of general social significance as the economy and the polity. The author also argues that while concern with intersectionality must continue to be paramount, different structures of inequality have different constructions and perhaps different influential causal mechanisms at any given historical moment. We need to follow a both/and strategy to understand gender structure, race structure, and other structures of inequality as they currently operate while also systematically paying attention to how these axes of domination intersect. Finally, the author suggests we pay more attention to doing research and writing theory with explicit attention to how our work can indeed help transform as well as inform society. }, number={4}, journal={GENDER & SOCIETY}, author={Risman, BJ}, year={2004}, month={Aug}, pages={429–450} }
 @article{risman_2003, title={From the SWS president: Valuing all flavors of feminist sociology}, volume={17}, ISSN={["0891-2432"]}, DOI={10.1177/0891243203255625}, number={5}, journal={GENDER & SOCIETY}, author={Risman, BJ}, year={2003}, month={Oct}, pages={659–663} }
 @article{risman_schwartz_2002, title={After the sexual revolution: Gender politics in teen dating}, volume={1}, number={1}, journal={Contexts (Berkeley, Calif.)}, author={Risman, B. and Schwartz, P.}, year={2002}, pages={16–24} }
 @article{risman_2001, title={Calling the bluff of value-free science - Comment}, volume={66}, ISSN={["0003-1224"]}, DOI={10.2307/3088926}, number={4}, journal={AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW}, author={Risman, BJ}, year={2001}, month={Aug}, pages={605–611} }
 @article{sperling_ferree_risman_2001, title={Constructing global feminism: Transnational advocacy networks and Russian women's activism}, volume={26}, ISSN={["0097-9740"]}, DOI={10.1086/495651}, abstractNote={ecent scholarship on social change emphasizes the importance of transnational advocacy networks and a globalizing civil society, in which borders between states become permeable to international political activism (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Della Porta, Kriesi, and Rucht 1999; Tarrow 1999). Such transnational organizing has blossomed within the women's movement, as elsewhere, and has affected the types of resources and discourses available to activists. Efforts to produce change in gender relations can now rely heavily on elite and expert social networks, in which women's organizing has become increasingly professionalized and "NGO-ized" (Alvarez 1997; Ray 1999; Silliman 1999). Local feminist activists now participate self-consciously in international forums, share a common discourse, and construct a women's movement understood as being both local and global (Bystydzienski and Sekhon 1999). This change in political activity has occurred at the same time as a global decline in women's mass mobilization and in the use of contentious forms of public protest (Freeman and Johnson 1999). In this article, we examine the nature and meaning of the transnational mobilization of women's movements, using as a specific case study a set of seminars sponsored by U.S. women activists and intended to support women's political activism in Russia. Our main argument is that transnational organizing is not a unidirectional process. At the point of intersection between the local and the global, where these seminars take place, resources and discourses become objects of struggle, which neither the Russian nor the American women's movement activists unilaterally control. Moreover, reciprocal benefits accrue to both local and extralocal}, number={4}, journal={SIGNS}, author={Sperling, V and Ferree, MM and Risman, B}, year={2001}, pages={1155–1186} }
 @article{ferree_risman_sperling_gurikova_hyde_1999, title={The Russian women's movement: Activists' strategies and identities}, volume={20}, ISSN={["0195-7732"]}, DOI={10.1300/J014v20n03_05}, abstractNote={Abstract Seminars for developing women's political activism in Russia provided the basis for field observations and surveys of participants and leaders in the emergent Russian women's movement. The seminars provided an elite sample of activists, including those who were long-term participants in the zhensovety those newly mobilized in Western-influenced, explicitly feminist groups, and the majority, who were engaged in women's NGOs with a variety of specific goals. Activists of all three types had both a “pragmatic” orientation to specific, local needs as well as a holistic, strategic analysis. Activists differed, however, in the extent to which they saw women in politics as more moral than men, as reliable advocates for women's interests, and as basing their politics on their roles as mothers. Activists also differed in their willingness to define themselves as feminists, although they criticized gender discrimination and valued consciousness-raising about gender issues. We conclude that the weakness of ...}, number={3}, journal={WOMEN & POLITICS}, author={Ferree, MM and Risman, B and Sperling, V and Gurikova, T and Hyde, K}, year={1999}, pages={83–109} }
 @article{risman_atkinson_blackwelder_1999, title={Understanding the juggling act: Gendered preferences and social structural constraints}, volume={14}, ISSN={["0884-8971"]}, DOI={10.1023/A:1021422930020}, abstractNote={In this paper we use longitudinal data to test the strength of individual preferences and structural variables as explanations for married women's labor force participation. Data drawn from a subset of the Career Development Study are used to compare gendered preferences measured toward the end of adolescence vs. work and family structural variables as predictors of the actual number of hours married women work for pay. Family structures that push women out of the labor force and pull them into family work prove to be the strongest predictor of married women's employment hours, with work structures (e.g., aspects of “good” jobs) and the subjective definition of paid work as a career also being substantively important for explaining hours in the labor force. Our findings also indicate that attitudes formed before and during early adolescence do have a weak but statistically significant effect on married women's labor force participation, at least for baby boom women.}, number={2}, journal={SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM}, author={Risman, BJ and Atkinson, MP and Blackwelder, SP}, year={1999}, month={Jun}, pages={319–344} }
 @misc{risman_1999, title={Women in Russia and Ukraine}, volume={24}, number={3}, journal={Signs}, author={Risman, B. J.}, year={1999}, pages={795–798} }
 @misc{risman_1999, title={Women's voices in Russia today}, volume={24}, number={3}, journal={Signs}, author={Risman, B. J.}, year={1999}, pages={795–798} }
 @article{risman_tomaskovic-devey_1998, title={A window on the discipline}, volume={27}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary Sociology}, author={Risman, B. J. and Tomaskovic-Devey, D. T.}, year={1998}, pages={1–2} }
 @article{risman_johnson-sumerford_1998, title={Doing it fairly: A study of postgender marriages}, volume={60}, ISSN={["0022-2445"]}, DOI={10.2307/353439}, abstractNote={Little is known about married couples who share the responsibilities of paid and family work without regard for gender prescriptions. Fifteen married couples who divide household work and child care equitably and without regard to gender are interviewed to determine how they arrived at this arrangement and what consequences such a distribution of household labor has on their relationship. Findings suggest that there are four paths to an equitable division of household labor: a dual-career household, a dual-nurturer relationship, a posttraditional relationship, and external forces. An egalitarian arrangement appears to affect both the power and emotional quality of couples' relationships. The concept of gender itself, with its impliedhierarchy in values, symbols, beliefs and statuses, is cornerstone of the edifice of gender inequality. Komter, 1989, pp. 213-214 Key Words: division of labor, gender, marriage. In this article, we explore how both behaviors and meanings in heterosexual marriages change when the spouses reject gender as a basis for organizing marital roles or responsibilities. We work from a feminist theory that defines gender as a system of stratification based on categorization that is created and recreated daily (Bem, 1993; Ferree, 1990; Ferree & Hess, 1987; Lorber, 1994; Risman & Schwartz, 1989; West & Zimmerman, 1987). Historically, the family is a "gender factory," where the polarization of masculine and feminine is created and displayed (Berk, 1985). Perhaps the best explanation for why women do an inequitable share of household labor is because we have defined such work as part of "being a woman" and "doing gender" appropriately (West & Zimmerman, 1987). Although gender is theorized within feminist scholarship as being forged at all levels of social life (Lorber, 1994), it is perhaps most evident in the family and other intimate relationships where gender is still seen even ideologically as a reasonable and legitimate basis for the distribution of rights, power, privilege, and responsibilities. (See review by Thompson & Walker, 1995; and Komter, 1989.) For example, in families in which there is an inequitable division of family work, wives and husbands often compare their household workloads with those of other wives and husbands, rather than with each other, because gender, rather than partner, is considered the appropriate referent (Thompson, 1991). Much recent research on contemporary families focuses on the division of household labor and child care in American homes. Studies investigating the division of paid work and family work in most families suggest that the revolution of women entering the paid work force in the past decades has not resulted in a consequent shift in the practices of men at home, a fact that Hochschild has termed the "stalled revolution" (Hochschild, 1989). In the majority of American homes, even when wives spend as many hours in the paid labor force as their husbands, they retain primary responsibility for homemaking and childrearing (Berardo, Shehan, & Leslie, 1987; Berk, 1985; Ferree, 1991; Hiller & Philliber, 1986). The power of gender in shaping the household division of labor is apparent in these typical families. Gender theorists, particularly Connell (1987) and Lorber (1994), suggest that, although structural conditions systematically support male privilege, human beings not only follow social dictates, but create them. The paradox of gender, according to Lorber, is that in order for feminists to eradicate gender, we must first recognize and highlight its ubiquitousness in all social institutions. One project for feminist social scientists is to locate and make visible the power of gender in families and occasionally to highlight when that power begins to diminish, to show that gender is a social institution, and, therefore, social change is possible. The research presented here is a study of heterosexual married couples who have moved beyond hegemonic conceptions of gender as they organize their daily family life. …}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY}, author={Risman, BJ and Johnson-Sumerford, D}, year={1998}, month={Feb}, pages={23–40} }
 @article{risman_johnson-sumerford_1998, title={Doing it fairly: Understanding feminist marriage}, volume={60}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Marriage and the Family}, author={Risman, B. J. and Johnson-Sumerford, D.}, year={1998}, pages={23–40} }
 @article{risman_tomaskovic-devey_1998, title={Editors' Note}, volume={27}, number={2}, journal={Contemporary Sociology}, author={Risman, B. J. and Tomaskovic-Devey, D. T.}, year={1998}, pages={vii-} }
 @book{myers_anderson_risman_1998, title={Feminist foundations: Toward transforming sociology}, ISBN={0761907858}, publisher={Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications}, author={Myers, K. A. and Anderson, C. D. and Risman, B. J.}, year={1998} }
 @book{risman_1998, title={Gender vertigo: American families in transition}, ISBN={0300072155}, publisher={New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press}, author={Risman, B. J.}, year={1998} }
 @article{risman_tomaskovic-devey_1998, title={Preface}, volume={27}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary Sociology}, author={Risman, B. J. and Tomaskovic-Devey, D. T.}, year={1998}, pages={1–2} }
 @article{risman_myers_1997, title={As the twig is bent: Children reared in feminist households}, volume={20}, number={2}, journal={Qualitative Sociology}, author={Risman, B. J. and Myers, K.}, year={1997}, pages={229–252} }
 @article{risman_johnson-sumerford_1997, title={Doing it fairly: A study of post-gender marriages}, volume={28}, number={1997}, journal={American Sociologist (Albany, N.Y.)}, author={Risman, B. J. and Johnson-Sumerford, D.}, year={1997} }
 @book{gender in intimate relationships a microstructural approach_1989, publisher={Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth Pub Co.}, year={1989} }