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Jones is currently working on a mainstream trade monograph under contract with the legacy feminist press Seal Press, tentatively entitled The Social Life of Sexuality. To learn more about the new book or any other work listed below, check out Dr. Jones's website: drangelajones.com.
Jones is the author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Industry (NYU Press, 2020) and African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement (Praeger, 2011). They are a co-editor of Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century (NYU Press, 2024). Jones is also a co-editor of the three-volume After Marriage Equality book series (Routledge, 2018). Jones has also edited two other anthologies: The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama (Routledge, 2012) and A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (Palgrave, 2013). Jones is the author of African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment, published in 2023, and a forthcoming book, Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook both with Bloomsbury.
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Angela Jones
Professor
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2064 Humanities Building
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Research Interests
Sex Work, race, gender, sexuality, feminist theory, Black feminisms, queer and feminist methodologies, and African American political thought and protest.
Biography
Angela Jones is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University.
Jones's research interests include sex work, race, gender, sexuality, feminist theory,
Black feminisms, queer and feminist methodologies, and African American political
thought and protest. They are an award-winning teacher and writer and a recent winner
of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
Jones is currently working on a mainstream trade monograph under contract with the legacy feminist press Seal Press, tentatively entitled The Social Life of Sexuality. To learn more about the new book or any other work listed below, check out Dr. Jones's website: drangelajones.com.
Jones is the author of Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Industry (NYU Press, 2020) and African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement (Praeger, 2011). They are a co-editor of Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century (NYU Press, 2024). Jones is also a co-editor of the three-volume After Marriage Equality book series (Routledge, 2018). Jones has also edited two other anthologies: The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama (Routledge, 2012) and A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias (Palgrave, 2013). Jones is the author of African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment, published in 2023, and a forthcoming book, Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook both with Bloomsbury.
They are also the author of scholarly articles, which have been published in peer-reviewed
journals such as Social Problems, Gender & Society; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture
and Society; Sexualities; Disability Studies Quarterly; Porn Studies; International
Journal of Gender, Sexuality, and Law; Culture, Health, and Sexuality; Sociology Compass;
Fat Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society; Sexuality and
Culture; Sociological Focus; The Journal of Historical Sociology; and Interalia: a
Journal of Queer Studies.
Jones also writes for public audiences and has published articles in venues such as
Contexts (digital), The Conversation, the Nevada Independent, Peepshow Magazine, PopMatters,
and Salon.