Judith Stacey is an author, and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Sociology at NYU. Her primary focus areas include family studies, gender studies, queer studies, and sexuality. Her latest book, Unhitched, explores social "family" configurations that deviate from the standard Western "marriage" idea, including polygamous families in South Africa, gay men's diverse forms of intimacy and parenthood in [Los Angeles], and the Mosuo people in southwestern China. She has published many works. Her paper, co-authored with Timothy Biblarz, "How Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?" argues that children of lesbian and gay parents develop at least as well as those with straight parents, but are more likely themselves to be open to different kinds of relationships.

Stacey received her bachelors degree from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 in 1964. She received her M.A. in history from the University of Illinois in 1968, and her PhD in sociology

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 from Brandeis

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in 1979. She was on the faculty of University of California, Davis 1979-1997 and was the Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Prof. of Sociology at the University of Southern California (1997-2008)before moving to NYU in 2003.

Partial Bibliography

• Unhitched - Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China (2011)
• In The Name Of The Family (1996)
• Brave New Families (1990)
• Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China (1983)