Faculty

Yvonne Zylan

Associate Professor
Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University (1995)
J.D. from University of San Diego (2002)

send e-mail (yzylan@unm.edu)

Office: Social Sciences 1084
Office phone: 505-277-0378

Research Areas

Law & society, sexuality, gender, social theory, political sociology, social movements, the state and social policy.

Select Publications

Zylan, Yvonne (forthcoming), States of Passion: Law, Identity, and the Social Construction of Desire. Oxford University Press.

Zylan, Yvonne. 2009. “Passions We Like…And Those We Don’t: Anti-Gay Hate Crime Laws and the Discursive Construction of Sex, Gender, and the Body.” Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 16(1).

Zylan, Yvonne. 2006. “Finding the Sex in Sexual Harassment: How Title VII and Tort Schemes Miss the Point of Hostile Work Environment Harassment.” Michigan Journal of Law Reform 39(3): 391-431

Zylan, Yvonne. 2000. “Maternalism Redefined: Gender, the State, and the Politics of Day Care, 1945-1962.” Gender & Society 14: 608-29.

Zylan, Yvonne and Sarah A. Soule. 2000. “Ending Welfare As We Know It (Again): Welfare State Retrenchment, 1989-1995.” Social Forces 79: 623-652.

Yvonne Zylan's Vita