PUBLICATIONS
Books
2023 Sutton, Barbara. Bulletproof Fashion: Security, Emotions, and the Fortress Body. New York: Routledge.
Reviewed by Louisa Rogers. 2024. Critical Studies on Terrorism.
interview about the book, "On the Shelf: Bookmark with Barbara Sutton."
2021 Sutton, Barbara and Nayla Luz Vacarezza, eds. Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. New York: Routledge.
Reviewed by Yanina E. Iturrieta. 2023. Zona Franca No. 31, 310-317.
Reviewed by Amanda-Rose O’Halloran. 2023. Community Development Journal.
Reviewed by Verónica Undurraga Valdés . 2022. Estudios Públicos 167, 183-192 .
Briefly Noted in Aborto in Pillole , May 2022.
Interview about the book in Latin+ Feminist Podcast (Spanish), July 2022.
2018 Sutton, Barbara. Surviving State Terror: Women's Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina. New York: NYU Press.
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Distinguished Book Award by the American Sociological Association Sex & Gender Section.
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Marysa Navarro Book Prize by the New England Council of Latin American Studies.
Reviewed by Bernardita Llanos. 2021. Conversaciones del Cono Sur: Magazine of Southern Cone Studies Vol. 5, No. 1.
Reviewed by Ana Forcinito. 2020. Journal of Latin American Studies Vol. 52, No. 2: 454-456.
Reviewed by Michelle D. Bonner. 2020. Contemporary Sociology Vol 49, No. 2: 208-209.
Reviewed by Julieta Lampasona. 2020. "Sobrevivir a la experiencia límite, y testimoniar. Una mirada desde el género." Clepsidra, Vol. 7, No. 13: 176-177.
Reviewed by Jennifer Earles. 2019. Gender & Society Vol. 33, No. 3: 502-504.
Reviewed by Amina Zarrugh. 2019. Sociological Inquiry Vol. 89, No. 3: 562-564.
Reviewed by Cara Levey. 2019. Oral History Autumn: 121-122.
Reviewed by Marina Sitrin. 2018. NACLA Report on the Americas Vol. 50, No. 4: 437-438.
Reviewed by Nayla Luz Vacarezza. 2018. Corpus Vol. 8, No. 2. Online, December 21.
Reviewed by Claudia Bacci. 2018. "Sobre la escucha. Voces de mujeres sobrevivientes al terrorismo de estado." Revista Transas, September 6.
Interview by Paige Sweet. 2018. "Surviving State Terror: An Interview with Professor Barbara Sutton." ASA Section on Body & Embodiment Blog, August 31.
2010 Sutton, Barbara. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Winner of the 2011 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association.
Interview by Irupe Tentorio. 2014. "Materia Prima," Pagina/12, Las12, August 29.
Reviewed by Christine E. Bose. 2014. “Global Variations in Gender Inequalities.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Vol. 43, No.1: 29-36.
Reviewed by Virginia Gaglianone. 2014 "El libro de la Semana: Cuerpos en Crisis." La Opinion, May 1st.
Reviewed by Karen Ann Faulk. 2011. Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 84, No. 1, Winter: 273-278.
Reviewed by Miriam Adelman. 2011. Contemporary Sociology Vol. 40, No. 2: 228-229.
2008 Sutton, Barbara, Sandra Morgen, and Julie Novkov, eds. Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Reviewed by Christopher Mullings. 2010. Gender & Society, Vol. 24, No. 5: 704-706
Briefly Noted in Contemporary Sociology. 2009. Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 386-387
Journal Dossiers
2022 Dossier “Resurgencias feministas en el Cono Sur,” guest co-edited by Nayla Luz Vacarezza and Barbara Sutton. Conversaciones del Cono Sur 6 (1).
2020 Dossier "Género, violencia y resistencia. Memorias del terrorismo de Estado," guest co-edited by Mariela Peller and Barbara Sutton. Clepsidra: Revista de Estudios sobre Memoria 7 (14).
Refereed Articles
2023 Sutton, Barbara. “ 'Loved by Moms and Law Enforcement Alike': Militarizing Civilian Bodies Through Bulletproof Fashion.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 9(1): 1-7.
2021 Sutton, Barbara. "Reclaiming the Body: Abortion Rights Activism in Argentina." Feminist Formations 33 (2): 25-51.
2020 Sutton, Barbara. "Intergenerational Encounters in the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Argentina." Women's Studies International Forum 82 (September-October): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102392.
2020 Sutton, Barbara and Nayla Vacarezza. "Abortion Rights in Images: Visual Interventions by Activist Organizations in Argentina." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45 (3): 731-757.
2019 Sutton, Barbara and Elizabeth Borland. 2019. "Abortion and Human Rights for Women in Argentina." Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies 40 (2): 27-61.
2018 Sutton, Barbara and Elizabeth Borland. "Queering Abortion Rights: Notes from Argentina." Culture, Health & Sexuality 20 (12): 1378-1393.
2017 Sutton, Barbara. “Zonas de Clandestinidad y‘Nuda Vida’: Mujeres, Cuerpo y Aborto.” Estudos Feministas 25 (2): 889-902.
2017 Sutton, Barbara and Kate Paarlberg Kvam. "Fashion of Fear for Kids." InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture 25, Online.
2015 Sutton, Barbara. "Collective Memory and the Language of Human Rights: Attitudes Toward Torture in Contemporary Argentina." Latin American Perspectives 42 (3): 73-91.
2015 Sutton, Barbara. "Terror, testimonio, y transmisión: Voces de mujeres sobrevivientes de centros clandestinos de detención en Argentina (1976-1983)." Mora 21 (1): 5-23.
2013 Sutton, Barbara and Kari Marie Norgaard. "Cultures of Denial: Avoiding Knowledge of State Violations of Human Rights in Argentina and the United States." Sociological Forum 28 (3), 495-524.
2013 Sutton, Barbara and Elizabeth Borland. “Framing Abortion Rights in Argentina’s Encuentros Nacionales de Mujeres.” Feminist Studies 39 (1): 194-234.
2013 Casanova, Erynn and Barbara Sutton. "Transnational Body Projects: Media Representations of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Argentina and the United States." Journal of World Systems Research XIX (1): 57-81
2013 Friedman, Ronald S. and Barbara Sutton. “Selling the War?: System-Justifying Effects of Commercial Advertising on Civilian Casualty Tolerance.” Political Psychology 34 (3): 351–367.
2011 Sutton, Barbara. “Playful Cards, Serious Talk: A Qualitative Research Technique to Elicit Women’s Embodied Experiences.” Qualitative Research 11 (2): 177-196.
2008 Sutton, Barbara. “Contesting Racism: Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights, and Anti-Racist Politics in Argentina.” Latin American Perspectives 35 (Nov.): 106-121.
2007 Sutton, Barbara. “Naked Protest: Memories of Bodies and Resistance at the World Social Forum.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 8 (3): 139-148.
2007 Sutton, Barbara. “Poner el Cuerpo: Women’s Embodiment and Political Resistance in Argentina.” Latin American Politics and Society 49 (3): 129-162.
2007 Borland, Elizabeth and Barbara Sutton. "Quotidian Disruption and Women's Activism in Times of Crisis, Argentina, 2002-2003." Gender & Society 21(5): 700-722.
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries
2022 Sutton, Bárbara. “Memoria, cuerpo y emoción: Testimonios de mujeres sobrevivientes del terrorismo de estado.” Pp. 259-301 in Testimonios, género y afectos: América Latina desde los territorios y las memorias al presente, edited by Claudia Bacci and Alejandra Oberti. Villa María: EDUVIM.
Chapter adapted and translated from Surviving State Terror
2021 Sutton, Barbara and Nayla Luz Vacarezza. “Abortion Rights and Democracy: An Introduction.” Pp. 1-25 in Abortion and Democracy: Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, edited by Barbara Sutton and Nayla Luz Vacarezza. London and New York: Routledge.
2021 Vacarezza, Nayla Luz and Barbara Sutton. “Cartas para un porvenir feminista.” Pp. 13-28 in Cartas de acompañantes de abortos: Escritos de jóvenes activistas para tramar rebeldías aborteras, edited by Maria Belén Grosso and Ruth Zurbriggen. Buenos Aires: Socorristas en Red.
2014 Sutton, Barbara. “‘More than Reproductive Uteruses:’ Women and the Politics of Abortion in Argentina.” Pp. 141-192 in Cuerpo, educación y liderazgo político: Una mirada desde el género y los estudios feministas. Quito: FLACSO, Sede Ecuador: University of Maryland: Latin American Studies Association.
An earlier version of this chapter was published in Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2010).
2013 Sutton, Barbara. “Fashion of Fear: Securing the Body in an Unequal Global World.” Pp. 75-99 in Bodies without Borders, edited by Erynn Masi de Casanova and Afshan Jafar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2012 Sutton, Barbara. “Body.” Pp. 111-116 in Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George Ritzer. Malden: MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
2008 Sutton, Barbara and Julie Novkov. “Rethinking Security, Confronting Inequality: An Introduction.” Pp. 3-29 in Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race and Militarization, edited by Barbara Sutton, Sandra Morgen, and Julie Novkov. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
2007 Sutton, Barbara. “Gendered Bodily Scars of Neoliberal Globalization in Argentina.” Pp. 147-168 in The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities, edited by Nandini Gunewardena and Ann Kingsolver. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press.
2004 Sutton, Barbara. “Las Mujeres y la Crisis: Marcas en el Cuerpo.” [Women and the Crisis: Marks on the Body] Pp. 179-186 in Cuerpos Ineludibles: Un Diálogo a Partir de las Sexualidades en América Latina, edited by Josefina Fernández, Mónica D’Uva, and Paula Viturro. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ají de Pollo.
Short Articles, Symposia, Commentaries, and Photo Essays
2023 Sutton, Bárbara. “'Marea Verde', Resistencias Feministas y Futuros Emancipatorios." LASA Forum 54 (3): 18-24.
2023 Sutton, Barbara, Ingrid Metzler, Lisa Smyth, and Amy Krauss. A Question of Life Panelists Respond to Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Global Observatory.
2023 Barbara Sutton and Nayla Luz Vacarezza. “Introduction: Abortion Rights Strategies in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico." South Atlantic Quarterly 122 (2): 378–385.
2023 Barbara Sutton. “Abortion Rights in the Crosshairs: A Transnational Perspective on Resistance Strategies." Journal of Lesbian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2023.2174682
2022 Sutton, Bárbara. “Cuerpos.” Pp. 17-18 in Ser mujeres en la ESMA II: Tiempo de encuentros. [Buenos Aires]: Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales.
2022 Vacarezza, Nayla Luz and Bárbara Sutton. “Legados democráticos, estrategias y desafíos de los movimientos por el derecho al aborto en el Cono Sur.” Dossier “Resurgencias feministas en el Cono Sur.” Conversaciones del Cono Sur 6 (1).
2021 Jelin, Elizabeth and Bárbara Sutton. "Memoria, género y activismo. Resistencia a la dictadura y lucha por el aborto legal." Aletheia 11 (22): e099.
2021 Sutton, Barbara. "Clandestine No More: Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion in Argentina." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, February 16.
2020 Peller, Mariela and Bárbara Sutton. "Introducción. Género y memorias sobre las violencias en dictadura." Clepsidra 7 (14): 6-11.
2020 Peluffo, Ana, Andrea Andújar, Bila Sorj, Bárbara Sutton, Catalina Trebisacce, Cecilia Maria Bacellar Sardenberg, Dora Barrancos, Joana Maria Pedro, Mary Garcia Castro, Nora Domínguez, Susana Rostagnol. “Simpósio: cinco questões sobre os estudos de gênero na América Latina.” Interview by Alejandra Josiowicz. Estudos Históricos 33 (70): 227-253.
2019 Sutton, Barbara. "Thinking about Reproductive Justice." Art, Women, Race, and Class Reading Group, Commentary based on Angela Davis's "Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights" (In Davis, Angela. 1983 [1981] Women, Race, and Class. New York: Vintage Books), University Art Museum, University at Albany.
2017 Sutton, Barbara. "Beauty in Places of Horror: Testimonies of Women Survivors of Clandestine Detention Centers in Argentina." ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Spring): 29-32.
2010 Sutton, Barbara. “Situating Memory in Argentina.” Print Photo Essay. Contexts 9 (3): 52-57. [A publication of the American Sociological Association]
Nominee for the Claude S. Fischer Awards for Excellence in Contexts.
2007 Sutton, Barbara. “Memorias y Encierros / Memories and Enclosures.” Digital Photo Essay. In “Visualizing Absence” by Lorie Novak, Barbara Sutton, and Mirta Kupferminc.” e-misférica (November, 4.2) Body Matters/Corpografías.
An abridged and modified version of this photo essay--including framed print photos, an introduction, and written captions--was exhibited at the College of New Jersey during the Spring 2009 semester.
Book and Film Reviews
2020 Sutton, Barbara. Book review of Argentina Betrayed Memory, Mourning, and Accountability by Antonius C. G. M. Robben. Journal of Latin American Studies 52 (2): 451-453.
2018 Sutton, Barbara. Book review of Legacies and Memories in Movements: Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe by Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Eduardo Romanos, and Markos Vogiatzoglou. Mobilization 23 (3): 391-392.
2014 Sutton, Barbara. Book review of "Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile" by Nia Parson. Human Rights Quarterly 36 (2): 496-501.
2011 Sutton, Barbara. Book review of Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists and Northern Donors in Brazil by Millie Thayer. Contemporary Sociology, 40 (5): 625-626.
2010 Sutton, Barbara. Book review of Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, edited by Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano for a special issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, “New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights,” 12 (3): 531-533.
2010 Sutton, Barbara. “Latin American Feminisms: Progress, Strategies, and Challenges under Democracy.” Book review of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America, edited by Jane S. Jaquette. A Contracorriente 7 (3): 513-519.
2000 Sutton, Barbara. Book review of Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata by Janet Finn, American Journal of Sociology 105:1211-1213.
1999 Sutton, Barbara. Film review of “Rachel’s Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer.” Organization & Environment 12:459-460.
Newsletter Articles and Blogs
2019 “To Kid or Not to Kid—Film Launches a Conversation about Childfree Choice” with Maxine Trump, Amy Blackstone, Wendy Simonds, and Barbara Sutton. Network News, Fall: 24-26.
2011 Sutton, Barbara. “Civic Engagement in the Women’s Studies Classroom.” Women’s Studies Department Newsletter, University at Albany, Spring.
2010 Sutton, Barbara. “Bodies in Crisis: Highlighting Women’s Experiences in Difficult Economic Times.” Women’s Studies Department Newsletter, University at Albany, Spring.
2009 Sutton, Barbara. “Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada.” Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Newsletter, Inaugural Issue, October: 3.
2009 Sutton, Barbara. “Teaching Gender and Climate Change: Selected Resources.” Resource posted for Blog Action Day (theme: climate change) in “Hot Flash: World Warming Up to Women” by Virginia Rutter, October 15.
2009 Sutton, Barbara and Julie Novkov. “Rethinking Security, Challenging Militarization, and Confronting Inequalities.” Women’s Studies Department Newsletter, University at Albany, Spring: 4.
2008 Sutton, Barbara. “Women’s Worlds 2008: An Internationally Significant Conference.” SWS [Sociologists for Women in Society] Network News, XXV (3): 6. Reprinted in the RC-32 Newsletter, December 2008: 12-13.
2002 Sutton, Barbara and Sandra Morgen. “The Impoverishment of Women Bibliography.” Voices: A Publication of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. Special Issue: The Impoverishment of Women (December): 45-69.