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Professor of Sociology, California State University, Northridgee-mail address: jprather@csun.edu
Special Interest Areas: Jane's special interest areas include sex/gender roles, women's studies, and gender and sexuality represented in the media.
Human Sexuality Courses: Soc. 324, Sociology of Sex Roles
Background: Jane did her undergraduate work at Kansas and her Ph.D. at Berkeley where she was influenced by the sybolic interactionist Herbert Blumer. She continues with tradition established by Blumer, Goffman and others in their perspectives on interpersonal relationships and public/private presentations of the self, especially as related to women.
Selected Bibliography:
"Prescription for Despair: Women and Psychotropic Drug Abuse," with Nancy V. Minkow in N. Van Den Berg (ed.), Feminist Perspectives on Addictions. New York: Springer, 1991.
"De-Coding Advertising: The Role of Communication Studies in Explaining the Popularity of Tranquilizers," in J. Gabe (ed.) Understanding Long-term Tranquilizer Use. London: Routledge, 1991.
"'It's Just as Easy to Marry a Rich Man as a Poor One!' Students' accounts of parental messages about marital partners." Mid-American Review of Sociology, 14: 151-62, 1990.
"Sex Differences in the Content and Style of Medial Advertisements," with Linda S. Fidell. Social Science and Medicine, 9:23-26, 1975.
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