Elizabeth Bernstein
Elizabeth Bernstein is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar trained in qualitative sociology and ethnographic methods. Her research and teaching focus on the political economy of the body, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of the award-winning books Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007), and co-editor of the volumes Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice (Routledge: 2021) and Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Routledge 2004). She is currently conducting research for a new book project entitled Imagining Immunity: Precarious Bodies and the Governance of Gendered Dis-ease, an auto-ethnographic account and intersectional analysis of the immunological metaphors that guide common conceptions of bodily risk and suffering, as well as the biopolitical interventions designed to address conditions ranging from allergies to autoimmune disorders to infectious disease.
Edited Books
Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice Co-Edited with Janet R Jakobsen Routledge: 2021
Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom University of Chicago Press, 2018
Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity Co-Edited with Laurie Schaffner Routledge 2004