Gayle S. Rubin

Gayle Rubin received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2003.  She is the author of a series of groundbreaking articles on the politics of sex and gender (collected in Deviations, 2012) and an anthropological study of gay leathermen in San Francisco (entitled Valley of the Kings, forthcoming).   Her teaching includes classes on “Sex Panics,” “Sex and the City,” and graduate seminars such as “Sexological Theories: From Krafft-Ebbing to Foucault” and “The Feminist Sex Wars.”

Research Areas(s)

• lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies
• sexual populations and geographies
• sexology, history of sexology, and relationships between sexological and racial classifications
• feminist theory and politics
• gay/lesbian ethnography

Affiliation(s)

• Women's Studies