Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology

Marybeth C. Stalp Office: BAK 361 Phone: 319-273-6235 Fax: 319-273-7104 Marybeth.Stalp@uni.edu http://www.uni.edu/stalp/

Area:
Sociology, Women`s and Gender Studies

Research Interests:
Gender, Culture, Leisure, Qualitative Methods

I generally focus on the intersection of gender and culture in contemporary US society.

My first book project centers on midlife women in the US who quilt for fun. I examined contemporary US women`s quilting activities as a gendered form of cultural production, with specific attention to family tensions emerging as midlife women develop leisure interests.

A second collaborative project centers on the emergence of Red Hat Society Chapters, with focus on the leisure aspects of midlife women, positive spin on aging, and the social benefits of belonging to such an organization.

Thirdly, I am beginning new research on women and men artists in Iowa and North Carolina.

Finally, I am interested in the overlap between public and private in the lives of national First Ladies--that is, how the private lives of First Ladies are carried out in public.

Selected Publications:
BOOKS
Marybeth C. Stalp. 2007. Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.


PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
Marybeth C. Stalp, Rachel Williams, Annette Lynch, and M. Elise Radina. Forthcoming. Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women`s Identity Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

Marybeth C. Stalp and Rachel Conti. Forthcoming. To See or Not to See Serious Leisure in the Home: Professional Quilters Negotiate Family Space. Gender, Work & Organization.

Marybeth C. Stalp, and Theresa M. Winge. 2008. "My Collection is Bigger Than Yours: Tales from the Handcrafter`s Stash." Home Cultures 5(2):197-218.

Marybeth C. Stalp, M. Elise Radina, and Annette Lynch. 2008. We Do It Cuz It`s Fun: Creating Women`s Leisure Space through Red Hat Society Membership. Sociological Perspectives Volume 51(2): 325-348.

M. Elise Radina, Annette Lynch, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Lydia K. Manning. 2008. When I am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple: Red Hatters Cope with Getting Old. Journal of Women and Aging Volume 20 (1/2):99-114.

Annette Lynch, Marybeth C. Stalp, and M. Elise Radina. 2007. Growing Old and Dressing (Dis)gracefully. Pages 144-155 in Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes. Edited by Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster. Oxford, England: Berg Publishers.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2006. Creating an Artistic Self: Amateur Quilters and Subjective Careers. Sociological Focus. 39(3):193-216.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2006. Hiding the (Fabric) Stash: Fabric Collecting, Hoarding and Hiding Strategies of Contemporary US Quilters. Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture 4 (1): 100-121.

Marybeth C. Stalp. 2006. Negotiating Time and Space for Serious Leisure: Quilting in the Modern U.S. Home. Journal of Leisure Research 38 (1): 104-132.

Linda Grant, Marybeth C. Stalp, and Kathryn B. Ward. 2002. Women`s Sociological Resarch and Writing in the Pre-World War II Era. The American Sociologist. 33(3):76-99.

Marybeth C. Stalp and Linda Grant. 2001. Teaching Qualitative Coding in Undergraduate Field Methods Classes: An Exercies Based on Personal Ads. Teaching Sociology 29 (April):209-218.

Marybeth C. Stalp and Bill Winders. 2000. Power in the Margins: Gendered Organizational Effects on Religious Activism. Review of Religious Research 42(1):41-60.

Gary Alan Fine, Beth Montemurro, Bonnie Semora, Marybeth C. Stalp, Dane Claussen and Zaida Sierra. 1998. Social Order Through A Prism: Color As Collective Representation. Sociological Inquiry 68(4): 443-457.

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