Barbara Marshall
M.A. (Guelph) Ph.D. (Alberta) 
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies 

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Current interests: Feminist and critical social theory, sociology of the body, gender and sexuality, science and technology studies

Publications include: the Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory (ed. with A. Harrington and H.P. Muller, Routledge, 2006), Engendering the Social: Feminist Encounters with Sociological Theory (ed. with A. Witz, Open University Press, 2004), Configuring Gender: Explorations in Theory and Practice (Broadview Press, 2000); Engendering Modernity: Feminism, Social Theory, and Social Change (Polity Press and Northeastern University Press 1994).

Recent articles and book chapters include:
Marshall, B.L. 2006 The new virility: Viagra, male aging and sexual function. Sexualities 9 (3): 345-362; Marshall, B. L. and Katz, S.  (2006)  From Androgyny to Androgens: Remaking Gender in the Aging Body.  Age Matters. T. Calasanti and K. Slevin (eds) Routledge, 75-98; Marshall, B.L. 2005. (Dis)locating gender: Ontological crises and political strategies. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 13, spring 2005, 31-53; Katz, S. and Marshall, B.L, 2004.   Is the functional 'normal'? Age, sex and the biomarking of successful living.  History of the Human Sciences, 17(1): 53-75; Marshall, B.L.  2003   Feminist theory, critical theory and technology studies. in Technology and Modernity: The Empirical Turn. T. Misa, P. Brey, and A. Feenberg (eds), MIT Press, 105-135; Katz, S. and Marshall, B.L.  2003  New sex for old: Lifestyle, consumption and the ethics of aging well. Journal of Aging Studies  17(1): 3-16; Witz, A. and Marshall, B.L. 2003   The quality of manhood: Masculinity and embodiment in the Sociological Tradition.  Sociological Review, 51(3): 339-356; Marshall, B. L. and Katz, S. 2002  Forever functional: sexual fitness and the aging male body. Body and Society, 8(4): 43-70; Marshall, B.L. 2002  Snips and snails and theorists' tales: classical sociology and the making of sex. Journal of Classical Sociology, 2(2): 135-155; Marshall, B.L. 2002  Hard science: Gendered constructions of sexual dysfunction in the 'Viagra age'. Sexualities, 5(2): 131-158