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Virginia Olesen, photo

Virginia Olesen, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology (Emerita)
Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences

3333 California St., #LHts-455
San Francisco, CA  94143-0612

Telephone:  (415) 476-2453     Fax:  415-476-6552
Email:  virginia.olesen@ucsf.edu

Research

GRANTS

School of Nursing Research Committee, $3,000 for a study of Issues in the Professional Socialization of the First Baccalaureate Nursing Students in the People's Republic of China, 1988 (with Dr. Anne Davis). (See 1989 papers presented.)

University of California Committee on Global Conflict and Cooperation, "Constructing Symbols of Peace and War as Aspects of Mental Health Using Women's Organizations and Publications," $6,000, June 1985-July 1986. (See 1985 Paper Presentations.)

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, U. S. Department of Education, Dissemination of Innovative Curricular and Teaching Materials, $8,000, August 15, 1986-December 31, 1986 (see note on FIPSE comprehensive grant under grants concluded since 1983 and point #3 under Efforts to Improve Instruction. Also see 1986 Paper Presentations.)

United States Health Service, Division of Nursing Resources, "Analysis of Mid-Life, Mid-Career Female Health Professionals," $4,000, 1984-1985. (See 1988 Paper Presentations and 1991 Publications.)

United States Health Service, Division of Nursing Resources, "Gender Differences in Self-Care" (with Leonard Schatzman), $6,000, April 1, 1983 through August 31, 1984. (See 1985, 1987 Paper Presentations, 1990 Publications.)

Professional Activities

UCSF Emeritus Association, UCSF Emeritus Faculty

Medical Sociology Group, British Sociological Association

Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences

Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Society for Medical Anthropology

Sociologists for Women in Society

American Anthropological Association

American Sociological Association
Member, Sections on Medical Sociology, Sex and Gender, Emotions, Theory

Pacific Sociological Association

Honors/Awards

Education/Degrees

Selected Publications

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*Virginia Olesen, "Early Millenial Feminist Qualitative Research: Challenges and Contours," in Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln (Eds), 3rd ed., Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.

"Working it Through: Interpretive Sociology After 9/11" In Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, (Eds.), 9/11 in American Culture. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003.

Kathy Charmaz and Virginia Olesen, "Medical Institutions," In Larry T. Reynolds and Nancy J. Herman-Kinney (Eds.), Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003.

Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. "Revision der Frauengesundheit" [Revising, Diffracting, Acting in Women' Health]. Pp. 37-99 in Frauengesundheit: Pflege- und gesundheitswissenschaftliche Perpspektiven [Women´s Health: Perspectives from Nursing and Health Sciences], edited by Regina Lorenz-Krauss and Elisabeth Uhlander-Masiak. Bern: Verlag Hans Huber, 2003.

*Virginia Olesen, "Resisting ‘Fatal Unclutteredness': Conceptualizing the Sociology of Health and Illness At And Into The Millenium," in Gillian Bendelow, Mick Carpenter and Simon Williams (Eds.), Gender, Health and Healing: The Public Private Divide. London: Routledge, 2001.

*Virginia Olesen, "Feminisms and Qualitative Research at And into the Millennium," in Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000.

*Virginia Olesen, "Emotions, Gender and Contemporary U.S. Health Care Contexts: Exploring the Macro-Micro Link," In Simon Williams, Jonathan Gabe and Michael Calnan, Eds., Theorizing Medical Sociology. London: Routledge, 2000.



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