Courses
Feminist Theory; Race, Sex and Sexuality: Concepts of Identity; Contemporary Feminisms

Research Interests
Professor Nicholson focuses on the historical context of social theory and social movements. Much of her most recent research has looked at changes in ideas around identity categories in Europe and the United States over the last several centuries with a specific focus on gender.

Selected Publications:

Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family(Columbia University Press, 1986)

The Play of Reason (Cornell University Press, 1999)

ed. Feminism/Postmodernism (Routledge Press, 1990)

co-editor with Steven Seidman, Social Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

editor of book series, ”Thinking Gender” with Routledge Press.