Jessie Bernard Award

Award Description:

The Jessie Bernard Award is given in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. The contribution may be in empirical research, theory, or methodology. It is presented for significant cumulative work done throughout a professional career. The award is open to women or men and is not restricted to sociologists. Only members of the American Sociological Association may submit nominations for the Jessie Bernard Award. Nominations for career achievement should include a narrative letter of nomination, a copy of the vita of the nominee, and three supporting letters. Nominations should be submitted to: American Sociological Association, ATTN: Governance Office, 1430 K Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; e-mail governance@asanet.org The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2010. 

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Recipients of the ASA Jessie Bernard Award
(originally a biennial award for career and/or publication; now annual)

2009 - Cecilia Ridgeway, career

2008 - Arlie Hochschild, career

2007 - Patricia Yancey Martin, career

2006 - Margaret Andersen, career

2005 - Evelyn Nakano Glenn, career

2004 - Myra Marx Ferree, career

2003 - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, career

2002 - Barrie Thorne, career

2001 - Barbara Laslett, career

2000 - Maxine Baca Zinn, career

1999 - Paula England, career

1998 - Ruth A. Wallace, career

1997 - Nona Glazer, career; Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth (University of Illinois Press, 1995); Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (University of California Press, 1994)

1996 - Judith Lorber, career; Diane L. Wolf, Factory Daughters (University of California Press, 1992)

1995 - Arlene Kaplan Daniels, career; Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minnesota); and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community (Routledge)

1993 - Dorothy E. Smith, career; Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber) for significant collective work; and Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

1991 - Barbara Katz Rothman, Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchical Society (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989)

1989 - Joan Acker, career; Samuel R. Cohn, The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain (Temple University Press, 1985); and Honorable Mention to Karen Brodkin Sacks, Caring by the Hour (University of Illinois Press)

1987 - Sandra Harding, The Science Question in Feminism (Cornell University Press, 1986); and Judith Rollins, Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers (Temple University Press, 1986)

1985 - Joan Huber, career; and Judith G. Stacey, Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China

1983 - Alice S. Rossi, career

1981 - Elise Boulding, career

1979 - Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer, The Female Labor Force in the United States: Demographic and Economic Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition (University of California and Greenwood Press); Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (University of California Press); and Honorable Mention to Kristin Luker, Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press)