Kath Weston
Personal Information
Description
Kath Weston’s current work focuses on political economy, political ecology and environmental issues, historical anthropology, and science studies. She has also published widely on kinship, gender, and sexuality. Before coming to the University of Virginia, she taught at Harvard University and Arizona State University. She has also served as a Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, the University of Tokyo, Brandeis University, Wellesley College, and Olin College. Dr. Weston has conducted fieldwork and archival research in North America, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. She is a longtime member of the National Writers Union and the author of multiple books.
Books
Render me, gender me
In day-to-day life, people often act as if they know exactly what they mean by boys and girls, masculine and feminine, butch and femme. Render Me, Gender Me challenges comfortable assumptions about gender by weaving Kath Weston's own thought-provoking commentary together with the voices of lesbians from a variety of race and class backgrounds.
Families we choose
This classic text, originally published in 1991, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology.