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PhD Sociology University of Sussex
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According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Mary Ettorre is an Anglo-American feminist sociologist. Career Ettorre completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at Fordham University, New York, before earning a Ph.D. in the subject with a thesis 'The Sociology of lesbianism: female "deviance" and female sexuality' at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She attended the UK's first National Lesbian Conference in Bristol in 1974 and helped to organise the UK's ninth national Women's liberation movement conference in London in 1977. Ettorre did sociological research at Institute of Psychiatry, Birkbeck College and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School all of the University of London in the 1970s – 1980s; became Professor of Sociology at University of Plymouth and as of 2011 is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. Since the mid-1990s, Ettorre has been a Docent in Sociology at Åbo Akademi University and University of Helsinki. Aside from lesbianism and feminism, her academic interests include women and substance use, reproduction and genetics and autoethnography.

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Women and Substance Use (1992) (114)
Revisioning women and drug use: gender sensitivity, embodiment and reducing harm (2004) (113)
Women and alcohol (1992) (104)
Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body (2002) (85)
Revisioning Women and Drug Use: Gender, Power and the Body (2007) (71)
Gender, older female bodies and autoethnography: Finding my feminist voice by telling my illness story (2005) (65)
Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body: `Please Doctor, may I have a Normal Baby?' (2000) (62)
Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World (2011) (58)
Lesbians, Women and Society (2022) (48)
Decision-making, uncertainty and risk: Exploring the complexity of work processes in NHS delivery suites (2005) (45)
Women, urban social movements and the lesbian ghetto (1978) (39)
Experts as 'storytellers' in reproductive genetics: exploring key issues (1999) (38)
Autoethnography as Feminist Method: Sensitising the feminist 'I' (2019) (31)
Mental distress--gender aspects of symptoms and coping. (1999) (30)
Women and Alcohol: A Private Pleasure or a Public Problem? (1998) (29)
Psychotropic drugs: long-term use, dependency and the gender factor. (1994) (27)
Gendered Moods: Psychotropics and Society (1995) (25)
Revisioning Women and Drug Use (2007) (24)
Nuns, Dykes, Drugs and Gendered Bodies: An Autoethnography of a Lesbian Feminist’s Journey Through ‘Good Time’ Sociology (2010) (21)
Recognizing Diversity and Group Processes in International, Collaborative Research Work: A Case Study (2000) (20)
Embodied Deviance, Gender, and Epistemologies of Ignorance: Re-Visioning Drugs Use in a Neurochemical, Unjust World (2015) (20)
Feminism confronts the genome: introduction (2006) (19)
The Body in Culture, Technology & Society - by Shilling, C. (2008) (19)
A critical look at the new genetics: Conceptualizing the links between reproduction, gender and bodies (2002) (17)
A study of alcoholism treatment units--I. Treatment activities and the institutional response. (1984) (16)
The women and depression project: Feminist action research and guided self-help groups emerging from the Finnish women's movement (2004) (15)
The Increasing Visibility of Gender in the Alcohol and Drug Fields (2016) (15)
Women and drug abuse with special reference to Finland: Needing the ‘courage to see’ (1994) (15)
Making Sense of My Illness Journey from Thyrotoxicosis to Health: an Autoethnography (2006) (14)
Psychotropics, sociology and women: are the ‘halcyon days’ of the ‘malestream’ over? (1993) (14)
Feminist Autoethnography, Gender, and Drug Use (2017) (14)
Empowering depressed women: Changes in ‘individual’ and ‘social’ feelings in guided self-help groups in Finland (2005) (14)
Young people, drug use and the consumption of health (2004) (13)
Autoethnography: Making Sense of Personal Illness Journeys (2010) (13)
Prenatal Genetic Technologies and the Social Control of Pregnant Women: A Review of the Key Issues (2009) (12)
LONG-TERM USERS OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS: EMBODYING MASCULINIZED STRESS AND FEMINIZED NERVES (2001) (10)
A study of alcoholism treatment units: some findings on links with community agencies. (1985) (9)
A study of alcoholism treatment units: some findings on patients. (1985) (9)
Before birth : understanding prenatal screening (2001) (8)
Prenatal screening and genetics. (2001) (8)
Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health (2010) (8)
A study of alcoholism treatment units: some findings on units and staff. (1985) (7)
Review Article: Re‐shaping the Space Between Bodies and Culture: Embodying the Biomedicalised Body (1998) (7)
Reproductive Regimes: Governing Gendered Bodies (2010) (6)
Social scientific perspectives (2012) (6)
Chapter 9. Drug User Researchers as Autoethnographers: “Doing Reflexivity” With Women Drug Users (2013) (6)
Gaining agency through healthy embodiment in groups for depressed women (2007) (6)
The sociology of the new genetics: conceptualizing the links between reproduction, gender and bodies. (2005) (6)
Women-only treatment? Epistemologies of ignorance, intersectionality and the need for a feminist embodiment approach. (2018) (5)
Writing of sadness and pain: Diary work with depressed women in Finland (2007) (5)
Gender, older female bodies and medical uncertainty: finding my feminist voice by telling my illness story (2005) (5)
Chapter 2. Seeing Women, Power, and Drugs through the Lens of Embodiment (2020) (5)
Introduction: Making Lesbians Visible in the Substance Use Field (2005) (4)
Bodies, Drugs and Reproductive Regimes (2010) (4)
Cultural commentary or gender scholarship? (2014) (3)
The Society for the Study of Addiction: temperance, treatment or tolerance? (1930-1961). (1985) (3)
Time, place and settings: negotiating birth, childhood and death (2006) (3)
Women drug users: An ethnography of a female injecting community: Avril Taylor. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hardcover, UK£22.50 (1994) (3)
Women and heroin (1992) (3)
Genomics, Gender and Genetic Capital: The Need for an Embodied Ethics of Reproduction (2007) (2)
The sociology of lesbianism: female 'deviance' and female sexuality (1978) (1)
Gender Aspects of Symptoms and Coping (1999) (1)
Getting Gender on the Agenda (2011) (1)
Introduction: Re-shaping Bodies in the Sociology of Health (2016) (1)
Women, drugs and popular culture (2007) (1)
Prenatal Screening: Impact on Normal Pregnancies (2007) (1)
Families, Intimacy and Social Change: Editorial Introduction (2006) (1)
A feminist response to substance abuse (1992) (1)
The new genetics discourse in Finland: Exploring experts views within Surveillance Medicine (1996) (1)
Exploring Lesbian Archetypes or Reviving ‘Drooping Wings’ (2000) (0)
Talking out of alcoholism: The self-help process of AA: David Robinson. Croom Helm, London, 1979. 152 pp. Price: hardback edition £7.95. (1980) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Reproductive Regimes: gender at biological and social crossroads or governing gendered bodies (2010) (0)
Raising Consciousness or Controlling Women? Women’s Drug and Alcohol Treatment Re-Emerges (2011) (0)
Making gender visible (2012) (0)
Editorial: Taking genetics seriously (2002) (0)
Introduction: discovering a ‘non-field’ (1992) (0)
Experts’ views on prenatal screening and diagnosis in Greece, The Netherlands, England and Finland (2017) (0)
Getting Gender on the Agenda: A History of Pioneers in Drug Treatment for Women in the United States and the United Kingdom (2011) (0)
Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate.By John H. Evans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. x+267. $45.00. (2011) (0)
Health, Culture and Society (2017) (0)
Finding my feminist voice through an illness story: ‘An old female body confronts a thyroid problem’ (2016) (0)
Embodying Core Activities: Gendered Performativities (2007) (0)
Book Review: Welcomed Analyses on Illegal Drugs Issues in a Nordic Context (1996) (0)
Health, Culture and Society: Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications (2017) (0)
Gendering the Governing Mentalities (2011) (0)
Contaminated Drug-Using Bodies (2007) (0)
Advertising as a representation of gendered moods (2012) (0)
âUnearthing Womenâ in Drug Policy (2011) (0)
Is gender still a non-field (2005) (0)
Sensitizing the feminist ‘I’ (2016) (0)
Introduction: autoethnography as feminist method (2016) (0)
Drug-Consuming Bodies (2007) (0)
Networking is an everyday practice in our lives as feminists (1994) (0)
Sarah Nettleton and Jonathan Watson (eds.), The Body in Everyday Life , London: Routledge, 1998, £50.00 (£15.99 pbk), xii+308 pp. (ISBN 0-415-16201-7). (1999) (0)
Being a ‘sexual pervert’ in academia (2016) (0)
Punishing or Privileging Marginalization (2007) (0)
Women and smoking (1992) (0)
Introduction (2005) (0)
Drug-Using Reproducing Bodies (2007) (0)
Female Addition: A Longitudinal study (Book). (1983) (0)
Women and food dependence (1992) (0)
Self, Normativity and Embodiment (2017) (0)
Feminist Theorizing about Drugs: Gender, Power and the Body (2007) (0)
Power, Control and Surveillance (2017) (0)
Analysing long-term use (2012) (0)
Conclusion: Making Gender Matter in an Age of Neurochemical Selves (2011) (0)
Reproducing Bodies and Governing Motherhood: Drug-Using Women and Reproductive Loss (2011) (0)
Doing feminist autoethnography with drug-using women (2016) (0)
She wrote it but look what she wrote (2016) (0)
Product Review: Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (2004) (0)
Women and minor tranquillisers (1992) (0)
Reproducing Bodies and Governing Motherhood (2011) (0)
Prenatal genetic technologies and the social control of pregnant women: harming or helping?' (2009) (0)
Moving beyond ‘masculinist’ truths (1992) (0)
Gendered Bodies, the Discourse of Shame and ‘disablism’ (2013) (0)
Clinical evaluation of psychotropic drugs for psychiatric disorders: Principles and proposed guidelines (1996) (0)
Embodiment, Emotions and Female Drug Use (2007) (0)
Steinberg, D.L.Genes and the Bio-Imaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture. Farnham: Ashgate. 2015. 200 pp £35.00 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-409-46256-9 (2017) (0)
'Climbing Untrodden Paths and Unfrequented Passes'. De-Generation in 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' by Schreiner, 'A Cross Line' by Egerton and 'The Undefinable' by Grand. (2013) (0)
‘Unearthing Women’ in Drug Policy: Where Do Women Fit — Or Do They? (2011) (0)
Politics, Responsibility and Risk: Editorial Introduction (2007) (0)
The ‘Back Story’ on Women, Drugs and the Body (2007) (0)
Introduction – The Sociology of Reproductive Genetics: the Institutions of Reproduction and Gender and Genes in Bodies (2013) (0)
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box” (2023) (0)
Undue Burdens: The Emergence of Feminist Treatment Advocacy in a Masculinist System (2011) (0)
Book Review: Taking the ‘vice’ out of female prostitution (1994) (0)
Mujeres y alcohol Placer privado o problem publico? (Women and Alcohol: From a private pleasure to a public problem? (1998) (0)
A European project on the development of prenatal screening (2017) (0)
Why Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications (2017) (0)
Introduction: Making Gender Matter: Drug-Using Women, Embodiment, and the Epistemologies of Ignorance (2011) (0)

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