Kari  Lerum
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Journal Articles

My peer-reviewed articles focus on Sex Work & Human Trafficking, Theorizing Sexualities, & most recently, Death Studies

Teaching Death Rituals during States of Emergency: Centering Death Positivity, Decolonization, Grief, & Ritual.  |  Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Lerum, K. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/15505170.2021.1964114

Sociological Perspectives on Sex Work & Human Trafficking |  Sociological Perspectives
Lerum, K., & Brents, B. 2016.

Sexuality in the Global South:  50 Years of Published Research |  Journal of Sex Research
Dworkin, S.L., Lerum, K, & Zakaras, J.  2016

​The Power of (but not in?) Sexual Configurations Theory |  Archives of Sexual Behavior 
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L.  2015.

Sexual Agency is not a Problem of Neoliberalism: Feminism, Sexual Justice, & the Carceral Turn |  Sex Roles
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L.  2015.

A FemmeNist ManiPedifesto |  Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies
Lerum, K.  2015.

Human Wrongs vs. Human Rights  |  Contexts
Lerum, K.  2015 (short invited essay; one of 6 essays by experts on sex work and human trafficking).
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Using Human Rights to Hold the U.S. Accountable for its Anti-Sex Work Agenda  |  Anti-Trafficking Review
Lerum, K., McCurtis, K., Saunders, P., & Wahab, S.  2012.

Exotic Dance Research: A Review of the Literature from 1970-2008  |  Sexuality & Culture
Wahab, S., Baker, L., Smith, J., Cooper, K., & Lerum, K.  2011.

Toward an Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Youth, Sexualization, and Health  |  Journal of Sex Research
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S.L.  2009.

'Bad Girls Rule': An Interdisciplinary Feminist Commentary on the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls |  Journal of Sex Research
Lerum, K., & Dworkin, S..L.  2009.

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Research Circles: Supporting the Scholarship of Junior Faculty  |  Innovative Higher Education
Gillespie, D., Dolsak, N., Kochis, B., Krabill, R., Lerum, K., Peterson, A., & Thomas, E.  2005.

Sexuality, Power, & Camaraderie in Service Work |  Gender & Sexuality
Lerum, K.  2004. (UW Press release resulted in dozens of news stories and several requests for radio and TV interviews).

Subjects of Desire:  Academic Armor, Intimate Ethnography, & the Production of Critical Knowledge |  Qualitative Inquiry
Lerum, K.  2001. (First place graduate paper, Social Problems Theory Division, Sociology for the Study of Social Problems, 2000).

12-Step Feminism makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement turn Radical Women into 'Useless Citizens'  |  Sexuality & Culture
Lerum, K. 1998. (First place graduate paper, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1999).
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  • Kari Lerum
  • Research
    • Journal articles
    • Chapters & Essays
    • Public Scholarship
    • Current projects
  • Teaching
  • More