Amy C Lind
Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor, Graduate Director, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
513-556-6364
amy.lind@uc.edu
Professional Summary
Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Sociology and the School of Planning. She has published on gender, development, and sexual politics in the Americas, with an emphasis on gendered forms of resistance to neoliberal governance and modernity; more recently, she has focused on LGBTQ and feminist political responses to the trans/national governance of intimacy and sexuality in Latin America. She is the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador (Penn State Press, 2005), co-editor of Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality (Greenwood Press, 2008), and editor of Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (Routledge, 2010). Currently she is completing a book-length manuscript on sexual politics and post-neoliberal governance in the Americas, based on research conducted in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, (City and Regional Planning).
M.R.P., Cornell University, (City and Regional Planning).
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, (Women’s Studies & Latin American Studies, graduated with honors).
Research Support
(PI) Amy Lind, Women’s Rights, Economic Development, and Radical Populism in Chávez’s Venezuela, University of Cincinnati University Research Council. $14,800. Funded 07-2008 to 08-2008.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Amy Lind (2004). Legislating the Family: Heterosexist Bias in Social Welfare Policy Frameworks. Sociology and Social Welfare, 31 (4), 19-34.
Amy Lind (2003). Feminist Post-Development Thought: 'Women and Development' and the Gendered Paradoxes of Survival in Bolivia. Women's Studies Quarterly, 31 (3/4), 227-246.
Amy Lind (2003). Gender and Neoliberal States: Feminists Remake the Nation in Ecuador. Latin American Perspectives, 30 (1), 182-207.
Amy Lind (2002). Making Feminist Sense of Neoliberalism: The Institutionalization of Women's Struggles for Survival in Ecuador and Bolivia. Journal of Developing Societies, 18 (2/3), 228-258.
Amy Lind (1997). Gender, Development and Urban Social Change: Women's Community Action in Global Cities. World Development, 28 (9), 1205-1223.
Amy Lind (2009). Governing Intimacy, Struggling for Sexual Rights: Heteronormativity in the Global Development Industry. Development, 52 (1), 34-42.
Invited Publications
Amy Lind (2008). Interrogating "Queerness" in Theory and Politics: Reflections from Ecuador. LASA Forum, 39 (4), 30-34.
Books
Amy Lind (2005). Gendered Paradoxes: Women’s Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador. Penn State University Press.
Amy Lind (2003). Women’s Issues Worldwide: Central and South America. Greenwood Press.
Amy Lind and Stephanie Brzuzy (2008). Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Greenwood Press.
Amy Lind (In Press). Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance. Routledge.
Book Chapters
Amy Lind and Jessica Share (2003). Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin America. Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, and Priya Kurian (Eds.), Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development. (pp. 55-73). London: Zed Books.
Amy Lind (2003). Engendering Andean Politics: The Paradoxes of Women’s Movements in Neoliberal Ecuador and Bolivia. Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri (Eds.), Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform. (pp. 58-78). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Amy Lind (2000). Negotiating Boundaries: Women's Organizations and the Politics of Restructuring in Ecuador. Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan (Eds.), Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites, Resistances. (pp. 161-175). New York: Routledge.
Lourdes Beneria and Amy Lind (1995). Engendering International Trade: Concepts, Policy, Action. Noeleen Heyzer (Eds.), A Commitment to the World's Women: Perspectives on Beijing and Beyond. (pp. 69-86). New York: UNIFEM.
Amy Lind (1992). Power, Gender and Development: Popular Women's Organizations and the Politics of Needs in Ecuador. Arturo Escobar and Sonia Alvarez (Eds.), The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy. (pp. 132-149). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Amy Lind and Jill Williams (2008). Afianzando los derechos de las mujeres: militarizacion fronteriza, seguridad nacional y violencia contra las mujeres en la frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos . Mercedes Prieto (Eds.), Mujeres y escenarios ciudadanos. Quito: FLACSO-Ecuador.
Amy Lind (2009). (In Press). Querying Globalization: Sexual Subjectivities, Development, and the Governance of Intimacy. Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan (Eds.), Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances (second edition). New York: Routledge.
Amy Lind (2010). (In Press). From Neoliberalism to Post-neoliberalism? Re-assessing the Institutionalization of Women's Struggles for Survival in Ecuador and Venezuela. Sylvia Chant (Eds.), The International Handbook on Gender and Poverty. Edward Elgar.
Post Graduate Training & Education
1996, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, .
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
2007-2009, Co-Chair, Gender and Feminist Studies Section Latin American Studies Association.
Courses Taught
WMST 700, Introduction to Graduate Women's Studies.
WMST 735, Feminist Theory: Race, Class, Nation.
WMST 589, Feminisms in North America.
WMST 496/696, Gender and Development.
WMST 580, Feminist Methodologies.
WMST 480/480H, Feminist Theory.
