Elizabeth Bernstein

Elizabeth Bernstein is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is co-editor of Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Routledge 2005), and the author of Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which received the 2009 Norbert Elias Prize as well as two distinguished book awards from the American Sociological Association. Her current book project is Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press), which explores the convergence of feminist, neoliberal, and evangelical Christian interests in the shaping of contemporary global policies surrounding the traffic in women.