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Stacey Oliker

  • Professor Emerita, Sociology

Education

PhD, Sociology, University of California–Berkeley

Research Interests

  • Family
  • Sex and Gender
  • Sociology of Caregiving

Related Activities

  • 2015-present, Professor Emeritus
  • 2015, Professor
  • 2002-2015, Associate Professor
  • 1995-2002, Assistant Professor

Selected Publications

Oliker, Stacey J., and Seligman, Amanda I. “Understanding Family and Medical Leave at a Large Public University” Family-Friendly Policies and Practices in Academe Ed. Anderson, Erin, and Solomon, Catherine R. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (2015): 137-156.
Oliker, Stacey. “Sociology and Studies of Gender, Caregiving, and Inequality” Sociology Compass 5.11 Ed. Best, Joel. (2011): 968-983.
Oliker, Stacey. “Gender and Friendship” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Wiley-Blackwell. (2007).
Cancian, Francesca M., and Oliker, Stacey J. Caring and Gender Pine Forge Press. 2000.
Oliker, Stacey. “The Modernization of Friendship: Individualism, Intimacy, and Gender in the 19th Century” Placing Friendship in Context Ed. Adams, Rebbeca G., and Allan, Graham. Cambridge University Press. (1998).
Oliker, Stacey. “Proximate Contexts of Workfare and Work: A Framework for Studying Poor Women's Economic Action” The Sociological Quarterly 36.2 (1995): 251-272.
Oliker, Stacey. Best Friends and Marriage: Exchange Among Women University of California Press. 1989.

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