Jean Halley

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Harper's Magazine essay, "Killing Deer: A Hard Death on the High Road"

Podcast on girls and horses

Radio interview, "A Sociologist Studies Horse-Crazy Girls"

YouTube interview on Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses

Interview on "Why Some Girls Are Horse Crazy Like I Was"

NPR's Tell Me More interview with Michel Martin, "In Trayvon Martin Case, Who's Considered White?"

Book review of The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets

Book review of Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy

Video of Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman about Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race

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Selected Works

Urban Studies; Queer Studies

The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa’s Community of Migrants

"The Roads to Hillbrow is a joyous ride through the past and legacy of this amazing Johannesburg neighborhood. Tracking the historical origin and important milestones of Hillbrow, the book traces some of the remarkable (and colorful) people and events that have characterized this fascinating and often misunderstood area of Johannesburg."

–Margot Rubin

Animal studies; Feminist thought

Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses

“Drawing on rich interviews, personal experience, and extensive reading of fiction, sociology, and history, Halley’s Horse Crazy gives us girl-with-horse—its meaning, its influences, its ramifications. In my youth, I was gloriously a girl-with-horse, but it is only after reading Halley’s illuminating and fascinating book that I comprehend its profoundly transformative power.”

–Carol J Adams

Feminist thought; Queer studies

Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege

“A beautifully written handbook on understanding how systems of power and privilege warp, cloud, and distort human sexual and gender experience. I think the concluding section will save many lives, as the authors offer realistic hopes based on existing social progress.”

–Peggy McIntosh

Memoir; Social History

The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets

“This book is a tour de force, a magnificent performance in its own right.”

–Norman K Denzin

Social Science; Critical Race Theory

Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race

“Seeing White engagingly makes whiteness into a problem – one needing to be investigated in all its human and inhumane dimensions.”

–David Roediger

Sociology; Family Studies

Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy

“Brilliantly conceived… Boundaries of Touch offers readers a rare opportunity to rethink their ‘common knowledge’ about child rearing.”

–Stuart Ewen

Social Theory

The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social

"The essays in this volume are evidence of what Patricia Clough identifies as an affective turn in the humanities and social sciences."

–Michael Hardt

Interviews

Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race

Interview with Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman