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Joshua Gamson

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Joshua Gamson's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Joshua Gamson is an American scholar and author. A graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of California, Berkeley, he served on the faculty of Yale University before becoming a professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco. His work has appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, Newsday, Gender & Society, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Sociological Inquiry. He is the son of sociologists William and Zelda F. Gamson.

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Joshua Gamson's Published Works

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Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma (1995) (694)
Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (1998) (311)
Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (1994) (298)
Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement “Newness” (1989) (220)
The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond (2004) (214)
MESSAGES OF EXCLUSION (1997) (199)
The Unwatched Life Is Not Worth Living: The Elevation of the Ordinary in Celebrity Culture (2011) (114)
Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home@@@Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America@@@XUXA: The Mega-Marketing of Gender, Race, and Modernity (1994) (105)
The organizational shaping of collective identity: The case of lesbian and gay film festivals in New York (1996) (92)
The assembly line of greatness: Celebrity in twentieth‐century America (1992) (70)
Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and Its Consequences (2015) (60)
PERFORMING PROTEST: DRAG SHOWS AS TACTICAL REPERTOIRE OF THE GAY AND LESBIAN MOVEMENT (2004) (47)
Rubber wars: struggles over the condom in the United States. (1990) (40)
Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales (2001) (37)
Publicity Traps: Television Talk Shows and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Visibility (1998) (36)
Public affairs : politics in the age of sex scandals (2003) (28)
Taking the Talk Show Challenge: Television, Emotion, and Public Spheres (1999) (26)
The Intersection of Gay Street and Straight Street: Shopping, Social Class, and the New Gay Visibility (2005) (22)
Jessica Hahn, media whore: sex scandals and female publicity (2001) (21)
Paradigm Busting and Vertical Linkage@@@Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. (1993) (21)
Sociology of Sexualities (2003) (20)
Sweating in the Spotlight: Lesbian, Gay and Queer Encounters with Media and Popular Culture (2002) (19)
Keeping it in the Family (2013) (19)
Stopping the Spin and Becoming a Prop: Fieldwork on Hollywood Elites (1995) (17)
Reflections on Queer Theory and Communication (2003) (15)
The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco (2005) (14)
Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship (2015) (14)
Claims to Fame (1994) (10)
“It's Been a While Since I've Seen, Like, Straight People” (2014) (8)
Reality Queens (2013) (7)
“The Place That Holds Our Stories”: The National AIDS Memorial Grove and Flexible Collective Memory Work (2018) (6)
Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, the New Gay Conglomerates, and Collective Sexual Identities (2013) (6)
Do Media Monsters Devour Diversity? (2004) (6)
How the Field Grows: Cases from Berkeley@@@Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. (1993) (5)
Scandal in the Age of Sexting (2016) (4)
Lesbians, Gays, Straights, and the Media (2000) (4)
Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life.C. Lee Harrington , Denise D. Bielby (1996) (4)
The Normal Science of Queerness: LGBT Sociology Books in the Twenty-First Century (2013) (3)
Experiences of Youth in the Sex Trade in the Bay Area (2016) (3)
The Belly Mommy and the Fetus Sitter: The Reproductive Marketplace and Family Intimacies (2014) (2)
Call Me Tori … Or a Sociologist’s Son Rebels, Just a Little (2007) (2)
Kindred spirits? (2018) (1)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Queer Sociological Approaches: Identity and Politics (1996) (0)
Playing Rough at the Closet Door (1995) (0)
Response to Laura Grindstaff (2012) (0)
Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture: Why Media Is Not the Answer (2010) (0)
Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life by Nina Eliasoph:Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. (1999) (0)
Gender performance (2018) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (2020) (0)
Stargazing: celebrity, fame and social interaction, by Kerry O. Ferris and Scott R. Harris (2013) (0)
Kindred spirits. (2019) (0)
Book Review of "Understanding Celebrity," by Graeme Turner (2005) (0)
Weiners Galore (2016) (0)
Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.@@@New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity. (1995) (0)
From Trash to Tolerance (1998) (0)

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