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Maxine Leeds Craig is an American professor, working in the sociology department at the University of California, Davis.

Craig was a doctoral student of Todd Gitlin at the University of California, Berkeley; her doctoral dissertation became the book, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race (2002). Her second book, Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse to Move (2013), was awarded the 2014 Best Publication Award of the American Sociological Association's section on Body and Embodiment.

She was chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class for 2009–2010.

Publications

• Ain't I A Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0195152623.
• Sorry I Don't Dance: Why Men Refuse To Move. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0199845293.

References

1. "Maxine Craig". People. UC Davis Sociology. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
2. Smith, Richard Cándida; Wilmot, Nadine (2002–2003). "An oral history with Troy Duster" (PDF). Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. See in particular pp. 19, 177, 178.
3. "Section on the Sociology of Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award". American Sociological Association. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
4. "Prior Officers". Section on Race, Gender, and Class. American Sociological Association. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
5. Reviews of Ain't I A Beauty Queen?:
   • Weitz, Rose (March 2003). American Journal of Sociology. 108 (5): 1133–1135. doi:10.1086/379573. JSTOR 10.1086/379573.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara (February 2004). Gender and Society. 18 (1): 145–146. doi:10.1177/0891243203257699. JSTOR 4149378. S2CID 220465148.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
6. Reviews of Sorry I Don't Dance:
   • Jones, Emily Morrow (2014). Social Thought & Research. 33: 179–181. JSTOR 44807712.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • de Oca, Jeffrey Montez (September 2014). The Social Science Journal. 51 (3): 493–494. doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2014.06.008. S2CID 217473846.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Bielby, Denise (December 2014). Social Forces. 94 (4): e105. doi:10.1093/sf/sou124.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Cserni, Robert T. (January 2015). Men and Masculinities. 18 (3): 394–395. doi:10.1177/1097184x14568525. S2CID 144426521.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Hancock, Black Hawk (May 2015). American Journal of Sociology. 120 (6): 1889–1890. doi:10.1086/680512. JSTOR 10.1086/680512.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Contemporary Sociology. 44 (4): 577. July 2015. JSTOR 43996468.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Barber, Kristen (February 2016). Gender and Society. 30 (1): 149–151. doi:10.1177/0891243214563072. JSTOR 24756175. S2CID 143475411.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

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• Maxine Leeds Craig publications indexed by Google Scholar

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