Research & Articles

COMING SOON: Tey Meadow. “Becoming a Submissive: Identity and Embodiment in a Sexual Subculture.”

COMING SOON: Tey Meadow. “The Erotic Field”

COMING SOON: Katherine Khanna and Tey Meadow. Forthcoming 2023. “The Fragile Male: The Status Dependence of Boundary Transgression and Reclassification.”

COMING SOON: Tey Meadow, Alexander Borsa, Maximillian Castillo, Joshua Faires, Golds Kaplan, Shadiya Sharif, and Dingyu Zhang. “Love in the Time of Covid-19: The Social Dimensions of Intimate Life Under Lockdown.”

Tey Meadow. 2017. “Whose Chosenness Counts? The Always-Already Racialized Discourse of Trans*” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(8): 1306-1311. The Jenner/Dolezal moment, while it appears to provide a neat comparative experiment in gender and racial classifications, is itself the artefact of an invisible, already racialized gender system. If we take this question at the heart of  …

Tey Meadow. 2014. “Child” Transgender Studies Quarterly, 1(1-2): 57-59. A brief essay on the emergence of “the transgender child” as a social category.

Tey Meadow. 2013. “Studying Each Other: On Agency, Constraint and Positionality in the Field.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 42(4): 466-481. In this article, I use examples from my ethnographic study of families with transgender and significantly gender nonconforming children to elaborate two features of the fieldwork dynamics endemic to most complex analyses of human life:  …

Tey Meadow. 2011. “Deep Down Where the Music Plays: How Parents Account for Childhood Gender Variance” Sexualities, 14(6): 725-747. Parents of gender variant children routinely negotiate their child’s gender with social institutions, from schools to churches to neighborhood associations. These interactions require that parent develop narratives about why their particular child violates gender norms. In this paper, I  …

Tey Meadow. 2010. “’A Rose is a Rose’: On the Production of Legal Gender Classifications” Gender & Society, 24(6): 814-837.  Gender is perhaps the most pervasive, fundamental, and universally accepted way we separate and categorize human beings. Yet in recent years, U.S. courts and administrative state agencies have confronted a growing challenge from individuals demanding to have  …

Judith Stacey and Tey Meadow. 2009. “New Slants on the Slippery Slope: The Politics of Polygamy and Gay Family Rights in South Africa and the United States.” Politics and Society, 37(2): 167-202. This article investigates the often cited and dismissed, but rarely examined, relationship between legalizing same-sex marriage and polygamy. Employing a comparative historical analysis of U.S.  …