Faculty and Staff
Saundra L. Gardner, Associate
Professor
5728 Fernald Hall, Room 201G
Orono, ME 04469-5728
(207) 581-2388
sgardner@maine.edu
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire,
1983
Sandy's areas of interest in research and teaching are sociology of the
family; sociology of gender; domestic violence; and women's studies. Her
current research includes the experiential worlds of working-class
students and faculty; sexual identity and mental health; experience of
childhood violence and the development of eating disorders as a adult.
Selected Publications:
• "Teaching About Domestic
Violence: Strategies for Empowerment," NWSA Journal 5(1):94-102, Spring
1993.
•
"What's A Nice Working Class Girl Like You Doing In A Place like This?"
Pp.49-59 in WORKING CLASS WOMEN AND THE ACADEMY: LABORERS IN THE
KNOWLEDGE FACTORY edited by Elizabeth Fay and Michelle Tokarczyk
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993).
•
"Images of Family Life Over the Family Lifecycle," Sociological
Quarterly 31(1):77-92, 1990.
•
"Responding to Difference in the Classroom: The Politics of Knowledge,
Class, and Sexuality" (with Deo McKaig and Cynthia Dean), Sociology of
Education 62(1):64-74, January 1989.
