I'm pleased to have joined the ASU faculty in Fall 2003, having left a tenured position at Virginia Tech, where I was affiliated with the faculty in Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology, and Science & Technology Studies.

Welcome to the Academic Home Page of  Prof. Martha McCaughey  Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies  and Director of Women's Studies  Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies Living Learning Center  Appalachian State University  Boone, NC 28608  U.S.A.

2003         McCaughey, Martha, and Michael D. Ayers (editors).  Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice Routledge.  286 pp.

2001        McCaughey, Martha, and Neal King (editors). Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies   University of Texas Press.  279 pp.

1997       McCaughey, Martha. Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense  New York University Press.  270 pp.

Teaching Manual
2000    McCaughey, Martha, Jennifer Campbell, and Michael Keene.  The Mayfield Quick View Guide to the Internet for Students of Women’s Studies.  Mayfield Publishing Company.  90 pp.

Articles Published in Journals and Books
Forthcoming    McCaughey, Martha.  “Victim Vaginas:  The V-Day Campaign and the Vagina as Symbol of Female Vulnerability,” for a volume on The Vagina Monologues ed. by Adrienne McCormick.

2004    McCaughey, Martha.  “Causes of Rape (Theories of).”  Pp. 167-169 in Encyclopedia of Rape, ed. by Merrill D. Smith.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

2003    McCaughey, Martha.  “Windows Without Curtains: Computer Privacy and Academic Freedom,” Academe 89:5: 39-42 (September/October). Read online at: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2003/SO/Feat/mcca.htm

2001    McCaughey, Martha, and Christina French.  “Women’s Sex-Toy Parties: Technology, Orgasm, and Commodification,” Sexuality and Culture

1999    McCaughey, Martha, and Carol Burger.  “Cybergrrrl Education and Virtual Feminism: Using the Internet to Teach Introductory Women’s Studies.”  Pp. 151-161 in Teaching Introduction to Women’s Studies: Student Expectations and Classroom Strategies, edited by Barbara Scott Winkler and Carolyn DiPalma.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Publishing Group, Bergin & Garvey.

1999     McCaughey, Martha.  “Fleshing Out the Discomforts of Femininity: Comparing Female Anorexia with Male Compulsive Bodybuilding.”  Pp. 133-155 in Weighty Issues: Constructing Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems, edited by Jeffrey Sobal and Donna Maurer.  New York:  Aldine de Gruyter.

1999    McCaughey, Martha.  “Kicking Into Consciousness: Getting Physical in Both Theory and Practice.”  Pp. 157-166 in Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism, edited by Susan Villari and Jodi Gold.  New York:  Rowman and Littlefield.

1998    Grindstaff, Laura, and Martha McCaughey.  “Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and (Male) Hysteria Over John Bobbitt's Missing Manhood.”  Men and Masculinities  1:2:173-192.

1998    McCaughey, Martha.  “The Fighting Spirit: Women’s Self-Defense Training and the Discourse of Sexed Embodiment.”  Gender & Society

1996    McCaughey, Martha.  “Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity; Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug.”  GLQ:  A Journal of Lesbian and Gay                         Studies  3:4:261-287.
                                Reprinted in: kea special issue on heteronormativity (2002), edited by Dieter Haller

1996      Grindstaff, Laura, and Martha McCaughey.  “Re-membering John Bobbitt: Castration Anxiety, Male Hysteria, and the Phallus.”  Pp. 142-160 in No Angels: Women Who Commit Violence, edited by Alice Myers and Sarah Wight, Pandora (London).

1995    McCaughey, Martha, and Neal King.  “Rape Education Videos: Presenting Mean Women Instead of Dangerous Men.” Teaching Sociology

1993    McCaughey, Martha.  “Redirecting Feminist Critiques of Science.”  Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy  8:4:72-84.

1993    McCaughey, Martha.  “Evolution, Ethics and the Search for Certainty.”  Science as Culture  4:2:19:212-243.

Book Reviews
in press    McCaughey, Martha.  Review of Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, by Laura Browder (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).  Journal of Social History.

2002    McCaughey, Martha.  Review of Constructing Gendered Bodies, edited by Kathryn Backett Milburn and Linda McKie (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave, 2001). Gender & Society.

2000    McCaughey, Martha.  Review of two books:  Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, by Timothy F. Murphy (NY: Columbia UP, 1997); and Reinventing the Sexes: The Biomedical Construction of Femininity and Masculinity, by Marianne Van Den Wijngaard (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1997). Science, Technology, and Human Values 25:4:535-537.

1999    McCaughey, Martha.  Review of three books: Bodymakers:  A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Bodybuilding, by Leslie Heywood (New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, 1998); Women of Steel:  Female Body Builders and the Struggle for Self-Definition, by Maria R. Lowe (New York:  New York University Press, 1998); and Building Bodies, ed. by Pamela L. Moore (New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press, 1997). Gender & Society13:6: 828-830. 5:3:77-96. 12:3:277-300. 23:374-388.

Some courses I've taught at Appalachian State:

IDS/WS Graduate Seminar: Feminist Perspectives on Pedagogy and Academe
IDS 3000: Histories of Knowledges
IDS 3700:  Cyberactivism and Cyberliberties
IDS 3300: Gender and Technology
IDS 2202 : Tangents: Life Politics

What I do in my administrative role:
As an administrator directing the WS Program, I keep track of our dozens of WS faculty members across the campus who teach courses serving the WS minor and major, making sure students know which courses are being offered each term.  WS is also always reviewing new course proposals and new faculty members applying for WS Faculty status.  And, hurrah!-- WS now offers a WS Graduate Certificate as well as two new graduate courses (offered in IDS).  I submitted a series of proposals for an independent Women's Studies Program in what will be the University College at ASU, with a new WS major and several new WS classes.  In addition, I help the WS Program faculty plan and promote very cool classes and campus events. Some of the events we've worked on include:

        • Panel discussion and resources for women grad students (Sept 8, 2005)
        • Women's Studies Seminar Series (year long, 2006-2007)
        • Career/Leadership Workshops (Oct. 2005)
        • Queer Film Series at the Greenbriar Theater (Fall 2005)
        • The Vagina Monologues performance/fundraiser (Feb. 2006)
        • Women Artists of Western North Carolina juried art exhibition at the Turchin Center (March 2006)
 

Please check www.ws.appstate.edu under "EVENTS" for a list of our upcoming events!

What else I do as a professor:
Besides teaching classes, I supervise graduate students, research, publish, review articles for journals, review books for journals and book publishers, attend conferences, do administrative work, and also perform a substantial amount of service to my campus and my field. I've been involved with the American Association of University Professors, from the local to the national level, have served as an ASU Faculty Senator, and have served recently on the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Women's Studies Association and on the Executive Council of the National Women's Studies Association.  Currently I serve as the Book Review Editor for the journal Gender & Society.

Recently, I was flamed on a far-right-wing blog about how horrible women's studies is.  Check it out here

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