Kathleen M. Blee

Department of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh

BOOKS

2001  Racist Women. University of California Press, forthcoming.

2000   Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles. Edited with France Winddance Twine.  New York University Press, forthcoming.

2000  The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in an American Region. (with Dwight Billings).  Cambridge University Press, in press.

1998  No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest.  Kathleen M. Blee, Editor.  New York University Press.

1991  Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s.  University of California Press.  Named a centennial book of the University of California Press. Selected as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

(Reprinted in part in Susan J. Ferguson (ed.), Mapping the Landscape: Readings in  Sociology (Mayfield Publishing, 1996))
 
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Kathleen M. Blee and Dwight B. Billings, “Re/presenting Women in Appalachian History,” under review

2000 Women and Racist Apocalyptic Organizing.  Journal of Millennial Studies, forthcoming.
 
2000  Kathleen M.  Blee “Promises and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinarity,” in Robyn Wiegman (ed.), Locating Feminism: On The Politics of Women’s Studies, forthcoming.

2000 Kathleen M. Blee, “The Perils of Privilege,” Law and Social Inquiry, forthcoming.

2000 Kathleen M. Blee, “White on White: Interviewing Women in U.S. White Supremacist Groups.” in France Winddance Twine and Jonathan Warren (eds.), Race-ing Research: Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas in Field Research.  (New York: New York University Press, forthcoming).

2000 Kathleen M. Blee, “Ku Klux Klan,” in Wade Clark Roof (ed.), Contemporary American Religion.  (New York: MacMillan Publishing, forthcoming).

2000 Kathleen M. Blee, “Cultural Opportunism: Revisiting the 1920s Ku Klux Klan” in Jeff Goodwin (ed.), Opportunistic Protest?  Political Opportunities and Social Movements, forthcoming.

1999 Kathleen M. Blee, "Ku Klux Klan" in Neil L. Shumsky (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs (N.Y.: AFL-CIO Publishers).

1999 Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings "Where Bloodshed is a Pastime': Mountain Feuds and Appalachian Stereotyping" in Dwight Billings, Gurney Norman and Katherine Ledford, (eds.), Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk From an American Region.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, pp. 118-137.

1998 Kathleen M. Blee, “Managing Emotion in the Study of Right-Wing Extremism.” Qualitative Sociology 21:4 (December), pp. 381-399.

1998  "Ku Klux Klan," "Radicalism," and "Antifeminism" in Wilma Mankiller et.al. (eds.), The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (NY: Houghton Mifflin).

1998 Kathleen Blee "Reading Racism: Toward an Understanding of Racist Group Affiliation" in Kathleen Blee (ed.), No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest. New York University Press, pp. 1-15.

1998 Kathleen Blee “Women on the Left/Women on the Right” in Kathleen Blee (ed.), No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest. New York University Press, pp. 180-198.

1997 Kathleen Blee “Motherhood in the Radical Right” in Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, and Diana Taylor (eds.), The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (Hanover: University Press of New England).

1996 Kathleen M. Blee "Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo- Nazi Groups" Gender & Society 10:6 (December), pp. 680-702.

1996 Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings "Race Differences in the Origin and Consequences of Chronic Poverty"  Social Science History 20:3 (Fall), pp. 345-373.

1996 Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings "Violence and Local State Formation: A Longitudinal Case Study of Appalachian Feuding" Law and Society Review 30:4 (November, pp.671- 705.

1996 Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee "'Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red': Writing Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds" (equal co-authors).  Southern Cultures 2:3-4, pp.328-352.

1996 "Engendering Conspiracy: Women in Rightist Theories and Movements" Pp. 91-112 in Eric Ward (ed.), Conspiracies: Real Grievances, Paranoia and Mass Movements.  Seattle: PB Publishing.

1995 Kathleen Blee and Ann Tickamyer "Racial Differences in Men's Attitudes About Women's Gender Roles," Journal of Marriage and the Family, February: 1-10.

1995 Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee "Agriculture in the Kentucky Mountains," (equal co- authors) in Pudup, M.B., D.B. Billings and A. Waller (eds.), Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

1993 Kathleen Blee "Evidence, Empathy and Ethics: Lessons from Oral Histories of the Klan," Journal of American History 80:2 (September): 596-606.

(Reprinted in Al Thomson and Robert B. Perks, Oral History Reader  (London: Routledge, 1998.)

1992 Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee "Appalachian Inequality in the Nineteenth Century:  The Case of Beech Creek, Kentucky," The Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, vol. 4 (March), pp. 113-123. (equal co-authors)

1991 Kathleen Blee, "Women in the 1920's Klan Movement," Feminist Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, (Spring), pp. 57-77.

(Reprinted in Claire G. Moses and Heidi Hartmann (eds.), Women in Struggle, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995).

1991 Kathleen Blee, "The Catholic Church and Central American Politics," in Kenneth Coleman and George Herring (eds.), Understanding the Central American Crisis: Sources of Conflict, U.S. Policy, and Options for Peace (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Press, pp. 55-75.

(An earlier version appeared in Coleman and Herring (eds.), The Central American Crisis:  Sources of Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Policy. (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Press, 1985), pp. 55-71.)

1990 Ann Tickamyer and Kathleen Blee, "The Racial Convergence Thesis in Women's Intergenerational Occupational Mobility," Social Science Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 4, (December), pp. 711-728.  (equal co-authors)

1990 Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee, "Family Strategies in a Subsistence Economy: Beech Creek, Kentucky, 1850-1942," Sociological Perspectives, vol. 33, no.1, pp. 63-88 (equal co-authors).

1990 Kathleen Blee, "Right-Wing Political Movements" in Angela Howard Zophy (ed.) Handbook of American Women's History.  New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 513-514 (revised, 1994)(revised, 1998).

1989 Kathleen Blee, "The Family as a Socio-Economic Unit" in Helen Tierney (ed.) Women's Studies Encyclopedia.  New York: Greenwood Press, pp. 129-132.

1989 Paul Weingartner, Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee, "Agriculture in Pre-Industrial Appalachia: Subsistence Farming in Beech Creek, 1850-1880," Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, vol. 1, pp. 70-80.

1987 Kathleen Blee, "Gender Ideology and the Role of Women in the 1920's Klan Movement," Sociological Spectrum, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 73-97.

1986 Kathleen Blee and Ann Tickamyer, "Black-White Differences in Mother-to-Daughter Transmission of Sex-Role Attitudes," Sociological Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 2 (Summer), pp. 205-222 (equal co-authors).

1986 Kathleen M. Blee and Dwight B. Billings, "Reconstructing Daily Life in the Past:  A Hermeneutic Approach to Ethnographic Data," Sociological Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4 (winter), pp. 443-462. (equal co-authors).

1986 Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee, "Bringing History Back In: The Historicity of Social Relations," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, vol. 7, pp. 51-68 (equal co- authors).

1986 Kathleen M. Blee, "Teaching a Theory-Based Sociology of Gender Course", Teaching Sociology, vol. 14, no. 4 (July), pp. 162-167.

1986 Dwight D. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee and Louis E. Swanson, "Culture, Family and Community in Pre-Industrial Appalachia," Appalachian Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 154- 170 (equal co-authors).

1986 Kathleen M. Blee, "The Question of Needs," Contemporary Sociology, vol. 15, no. 6 (November), pp. 823-826.

1986 Dwight Billings, Kathleen Blee and Louis Swanson, "Culture, Family and Community:  Response to Paul Salstrom," Appalachian Journal, vol. 13, no. 4 (summer), pp. 350-352 (equal co-authors).

1985 Kathleen M. Blee, "Family Patterns and the Politicization of Consumption Relations," Sociological Spectrum, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 295-316.

1985 Kathleen M. Blee, "Mobility and Political Orientation: An Analysis of Sex Differences," Sociological Perspectives, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 385-400.

1985 Kathleen M. Blee, "Women of the Right," Feminist Collections, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 4-6.

1984 Kathleen M. Blee, "Family Ties and Class Conflict:  Politics of Immigrant Communities in the Great Lakes Region, 1890-1920," Social Problems, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 311-321.
 
1982 Glenn Yago and Kathleen Blee, "The Political Economy of Exploitation:  A Revision," The Insurgent Sociologist, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 63-72 (equal co-authors).

1980 Kathleen M. Blee and Al Gedicks, "The Emergence of Socialist Political Culture Among Finnish Immigrants in Minnesota Mining Communities," in Maurice Zeitlin (ed.) Classes, Class Conflict and the State:  Empirical Studies in Class Analysis.  Cambridge:  Winthrop Publishers, pp. 172-192.
 

RESEARCH REPORTS

1994  "Historical Origins of Chronic Poverty: A Longitudinal Case Study,"  Report to the Small Grants Program of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 86 p.

1992 "Appalachian Feuding: A Case Study of Violent Disputing,"  Report to the Fund for Research on Dispute Resolution of the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (with Dwight Billings).  110 p.

1991 "Causes and Consequences of Persistent Rural Poverty:  A Longitudinal Case Study of an Appalachian Community,"  Report to the Rural Economic Program of the Ford Foundation and the Aspen Institute (with Dwight Billings).  180 p.
 

BOOK REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

1999 Review of George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and ‘Legal Lynchings’, Ethnic and Racial Studies 22:4 (July), pp.774-775.

1998 Review of Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg, The Revival of Right-Wing Extremism in the Nineties, Contemporary Sociology 27:3 (May): 303-4.

1998 Review of Renate Siebert, Secrets of Life and Death, Contemporary Sociology 26:5 (Sept.): 619-620.

1999 Review of Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Common Knowledge 7:3 (winter):183-4.

1998 Review of Susan Marshall, Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage, American Journal of Sociology 104:2 (Sept.): 537-539.

1997 Review of Philip Jenkins, Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925- 1950, Journal of American History (December), 1114-1115.

1997 Review essay of Dan Carter, The Politics of Race; Kenneth Stern, A Force Upon the Plain; and Chip Berlet, Eyes Right, Contemporary Sociology 26:1 (January): 26-28.

1996 Review of George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, Contemporary Sociology 25:4 (July), 443.

1995   Review of James Aho, This Thing of Darkness, Contemporary Sociology 24:6 (November), 817-818.
1995 Review of Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry, Contemporary Sociology 24:3 (May), 346-7.

1995 Review of Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences.

1994  Review of Mary Jackman, The Velvet Glove, Contemporary Sociology 23:6 (November): 792-793.

1994 Review of William B. Hixson, Jr., Search for the American Right Wing: An Analysis of the Social Science Record, Journal of American History, June: 347-8.

1994 Review of Steven Seidman, Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America, Journal of the History of Sexuality 4:3 (Jan):480-482.

1993 Review of Douglas Rose (ed.), The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race, Contemporary Sociology 22:3 (May): 384-385.

1993 Review of Shawn Lay (ed.), The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, in The Historian 55:3 (Spring): 586-587.

1992 Review of Leonard Moore, Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928 and Richard Tucker, The Dragon and The Cross: The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in Middle America, in Journal of American History, (December): 1219-1221.

1992 Review of Michael Newton and Judy Ann Newton, The Ku Klux Klan:  An Encyclopedia, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 433-434.

1991 Review of David Blankenhorn et. al. (eds.), Rebuilding the Nest, in Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol. 53, no. 4, p. 819.

1989 Review of Rebecca E. Klatch, Women of the New Right, in American Journal of Sociology, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 913-915.

1989 Review of Sandford M. Dornbusch and Myra H. Strober (eds.), Feminism, Children, and the New Families, in Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1093-1094.

1988 Review of Janet Sayers, et al. (eds.), Engels Revisited:  New Feminist Essays, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 143.

1987 Review of Charles Stephenson and Robert Asher (eds.), Life and Labor:  Dimensions of American Working-Class History," in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 777.

1986 Review of Ruth Milkman (ed.), Women, Work and Protest: A History of U.S. Women's Labor History, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 602-603.

1986 Review of Peter Kivisto, Immigrant Socialists in the United States:  The Case of Finns and the Left, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 15, no.1, pp. 141-142.

1985 Review of Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Women of the Depression, in Contemporary Sociology, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 78-80.

1983 Reviews of Lydia Sargent (ed.), Women and Revolution and Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright, Beyond the Fragments:  Feminism and the Making of Sociology, in Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 175-177.

1980 Review of Christopher Jencks, "Heredity, Environment and Public Policy Reconsidered," in Feminist Collections, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 11.

1979 Review of Kathleen McCourt, Working Class Women and Grass-Roots Politics, in The Insurgent Sociologist, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 98-99.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

1998 Kathleen M. Blee, "Interdisciplinary Conversations:  Issues of Understanding and Dialogue Across Disciplines" in ASA Section on Sex and Gender Newsletter.

1997 Kathleen M. Blee, “Proseminar in Race, Class and Gender” in ASA Teaching Resources Guide in Race, Gender and Class.  Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

1996 Kathleen M. Blee, "Proseminar in Work, Gender and Inequality" in ASA Teaching Resources Guide in Sex and Gender.  Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

1994 Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen Blee, "Agricultural Development and Poverty" (equal co- authors).  Paper Series of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty.

1991 Kathleen M. Blee, "Social-Historical Perspectives on Work, Gender and Inequality" in Comparative-Historical Sociology: Syllabi and Teaching Materials.  Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

1990 Kathleen M. Blee, "Theories of Gender," in The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi and Teaching Materials (second edition).  Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

1985 Kathleen M. Blee, "Views of Gender and Family," in Barrie Thorne, et al., The Sociology of Sex and Gender:  Syllabi and Teaching Materials. Washington, D.C.:  American Sociological Association, pp. 173-177.

1985 Dwight Billings, Kathleen Blee and Louis Swanson, "Pre-Capitalist Modes of Social Cooperation:  A Reinterpretation of Family and Community Bonds,"   Appalachian Center Occasional Paper Series, no. 4.

1985 Kathleen M. Blee, "Critical Book Review," in Barrie Thorne, et al., The Sociology of Sex and Gender:  Syllabi and Teaching Materials.  Washington, D.C.:  American Sociological Association, p. 130.
 

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

1999  “Gender and InterEthnic Violence” Invited Plenary Address, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Rochester (June).

1998  “The Ties That Bind: The Hidden Culture of Organized Racism” Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, San Francisco (August).

1998   “Interdisciplinary Conversations,” Presentation to Teaching Workshop: Teaching Feminist Theory.  Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, San Francisco (August).

1998   “The Negotiation of Emotions in the Interview Process” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia (March).

1997  “Reading Racism: Women and Hate” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto (August).

1997  “White on White: Interview Narratives from Racial Activists,” Annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans (April).

1996  "Gender and Hate Politics," Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City (August).

1995  "Recruitment of Women into Organized Hate Groups," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. (August).

1994  "Gender and Political Participation in Social Movements," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles (August).

1993  "Racial Differences in Men's Gender Role Attitudes," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami (August), (with Ann Tickamyer).

1993  Commentator at session "The Problem of American Conservatism,"  Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, California (April).

1993  Commentator at Berkshire Conference on the History of Women session on gender and Protestant fundamentalism (June).

1993  "Right Wing Motherhood"  Invited presentation at Conference on Motherhood, Dartmouth College (May).

1992  "Evidence, Empathy and Ethics: Dilemmas of an Oral History of the Klan"  Keynote address, Oral History Association annual meeting, Cleveland (October)

1991  "Racism, Hypernationalism, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia:  The Case of the Contemporary U.S.," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Cincinnati.

1991  "Wealth and Inequality in Preindustrial Appalachia: Beech Creek, Kentucky, 1850- 1910," presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference, Berea, Kentucky (with Dwight Billings).

1990  "Causes and Consequences of Appalachian Poverty," Aspen Institute Conference on Rural Poverty in America (with Dwight Billings).

1989  "Land and Wealth in a Rural Appalachian Community," presented at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (with Dwight Billings).

1989  "Reactions to Altina Waller, Feuding," presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia.

1989  "Family Strategies in a Subsistence Economy," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco (with Dwight Billings).

1988  "Landownership and Household Composition in a Subsistence Appalachian Community," presented at the Appalachian Studies annual conference, Appalachian State University, (with Dwight Billings).

1988  "Agriculture in Pre-Industrial Appalachia:  Subsistence Farming in Beech Creek, Kentucky, 1850-1880," presented at the Appalachian Studies annual conference, Appalachian State University (with Paul Weingartner and Dwight Billings).

1987  "Women's Mobilization into Right-Wing Politics:  Insights from the 1920's Women of the Ku Klux Klan," presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

1987  "Household Composition and Tenancy in a Subsistence Economy," presented at the Southern Stratification meeting, Atlanta (with Dwight Billings).

1987  "Households and Farms in the Kentucky Mountains, 1850-1910," presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans (with Dwight Billings).

1986  "Black-White Differences in Mother-Daughter Transmissions of Sex Role Attitudes and Work Behavior," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York (with Ann Tickamyer).

1986  "Re-Reading Ethnographies:  An Applied Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge," presented at the Southern Sociological annual meeting, New Orleans (with Dwight Billings).

1985  "Gender and Bureaucracy," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (with Ann Tickamyer).

1985  "Bringing History Back In:  The Historicity of Social Relations," presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting,  Philadelphia (with Dwight Billings).

1985  "Women's Political Mobilization:  Insights from the 1920's Women of the Ku Klux Klan," presented at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, Philadelphia.

1984  "Pre-Capitalist Modes of Social Cooperation:  Appalachia and New England Compared," presented at the Eastern Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston (with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson).

1983  "Large Scale Longitudinal Studies," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Detroit (with Dwight Billings).

1983  "Toward a Critical Re-reading of Classic Appalachian Studies," presented at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C. (with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson).

1983  "Consumption Relations, Class Struggle and the Family: A Comparative View," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Detroit.

1983  "Re-Reading the Classics: Family and Community," presented at the Appalachian Studies Conference annual meeting, Pipestem, West Virginia (with Dwight Billings and Louis Swanson).

1982  "Family Ties and Inter-Class Political Struggle," presented at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, Bloomington, Indiana.

1982  "Political Ideology, Family Ideology: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Industrial Communities," presented at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, Des Moines.

1982  "Critical Issues in the Political Economy of the Family," presented at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, Des Moines.

1981  "The Political Economy of Class," presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Toronto (with Glenn Yago).