E-mail: cpfeffer@purdue.edu

Carla A. Pfeffer received her Ph.D. in Sociology (and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies) from the University of Michigan. Dr. Pfeffer's award-winning research focuses on intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, bodies, and family in the lives of women partners of transgender and transsexual men in the United States and Canada. Dr. Pfeffer has also been involved with collaborative research examining Americans' beliefs about the potential genetic etiology of perceived gender, race, class, and sexual orientation differences, as well as their associations with prejudice against women, people of color, poor people, gay men, and lesbians. One of the goals of Dr. Pfeffer's research is to shift critical studies of sex, gender, sexuality, the body, and LGBTQ topics, individuals, and communities from the margins to the center of social inquiry and analysis. 

Pfeffer, C. A. (2012). Normative resistance and inventive pragmatism: Negotiating structure and agency in transgender families. Gender & Society, 26, 574-602. 

Pfeffer, C. A. (2010). "Women's work"? Women partners of transgender men doing housework and emotion work. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(1), 165-183. 

Pfeffer, C. A. (2009). (Trans)formative relationships: What we learn about identities, bodies, work and families from women partners of trans men. Published online by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at Deep Blue Dissertation Database: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63628 

Pfeffer, C. A. (2008). Bodies in relation--bodies in transition: Lesbian partners of trans men and body image. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 12(4), 325-345. 

CONTACT: cpfeffer@purdue.edu