Publications

Aronson, Pamela and Matthew Fleming. In Press. Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life Routledge. 

Banner, Francine, Pamela Aronson, Kathleen Darcy, Maureen Linker, Jean-Carlos Lopez, and Lisa Martin. Forthcoming. “Feminist Secretaries: Silence, Authenticity, and Resistance in the Academy.” Narratives of Gendered Abuse in Academia, edited by Mary K. Holland and Carrie Rohman. Under Contract with SUNY Press. 

Aronson, Pamela, Leah Oldham and Emily Lucas. 2023. “Spectrum of Gender Self-Presentations among Women Candidates.” Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change. https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/13255. Published online May 9. 

Aronson, Pamela and Matthew Fleming. 2022. “Transformations in Sexual Consent.” Contexts, 21(4), 44–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/15365042221131083. 

Banner, Francine, Lisa Martin, Pamela Aronson, Grace Bradley, Islam Jaffal, and Maureen Linker. Published online December 2021. “Can Respectful Citizens Create Equitable Institutions? Promoting a Culture of Respect in the #Metoo Era.” Feminist Criminology. December 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/15570851211062577. 

Aronson, Pamela, Leah Oldham and Emily Lucas. 2020. “Gender Self-Presentations in the 2020 Election.” Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change. 5(1), 01, July 2, https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/8379.

Aronson, Pamela. 2018. “’I’m Not Voting for Her:’ Internalized Misogyny, Feminism and Gender Consciousness in the 2016 Election.” In Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election, edited by Christine Kray, Tamar Carroll and Hinda Mandell.  University of Rochester Press.

Aronson, Pamela.  2017.  “The Dynamics and Causes of Gender and Feminist Consciousness and Feminist Identities.”  Pp. 335-353 in The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism, edited by Holly J. McCammon, Verta Taylor, Jo Reger, and Rachel L. Einwohner. New York: Oxford University Press.  

Aronson, Pamela and Jeylan T. Mortimer.  2017.  “Moving Ahead, Drifting, and Scaling Back: Gender and Parenthood in Career Development.”  Pp. 134-1611 in Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate their Lives, edited by Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, and Ruben Rumbaut.  Leiden: Brill Publishers.  

Aronson, Pamela.  2006.  “’Iraq is a Small Purple Planet:’ Feminist Mothering During Wartime.”  Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Vol. 8.1& 2, Summer: 157-170.

Aronson, Pamela.  2003.  “Feminists or ‘Postfeminists?’: Young Women’s Attitudes Toward Feminism and Gender Relations.”  Gender & Society, 17, 6, December:  903-922. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243203257145.  

• • Translated into French in 2015 and republished in the French journal Politix:  “Féministes ou postféministes? Les jeunes femmes, le féminisme et les rapports de genre.” Politix 2015/1 (n° 109): 135 – 158, Translated by Helene Boisson. https://www.cairn.info/revue-politix-2015-1-page-135.htm?contenu=article.  

  •  Reprinted in 2012 in Feminist Frontiers, Ninth Edition, edited by Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier and Leila J. Rupp.  Pp. 516-526:  Boston:  McGraw Hill. 

  • Reprinted in 2009 in Feminist Frontiers, Eighth Edition, edited by Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier and Leila J. Rupp.  Pp. 572-582:  Boston:  McGraw Hill. 

  •  Reprinted in 2007 in Feminist Frontiers, Seventh Edition, edited by Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier and Leila J. Rupp.  Pp. 519-531:  Boston:  McGraw Hill. 

Owens, Timothy J. and Pamela Aronson.  2000.  “Self-Concept as a Force in Social Movement Involvement.”  Pp. 191-214 in Self, Identity, and Social Movements, edited by Sheldon Stryker, Timothy Owens and Robert White.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Aronson, Pamela.  2000.  “The Development and Transformation of Feminist Identities Under Changing Historical Conditions.”  Advances in Life Course Research, 5: 77-97.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-2608(00)80007-6 

Aronson, Pamela, Ivy Forsythe-Brown, Rose Wellman and Carmel E. Price. Forthcoming. “Cultural Mismatch: Family Obligations and Community Expectations among Arab American Immigrant College Students.” Colleges and Their Communities, edited by Allison L. Hurst,  Carmel E. Price, Dede Setiono, and Evaewero French. Under Contract with Rutgers University Press. 

Aronson, Pamela and Carmel Price. Forthcoming. “‘I’m Doing this for Me:’ Gendered Reasons for Enrolling in Postsecondary Education During an Economic Recession.” Sociological Focus. 

Aronson, Pamela and Matthew Fleming. Published online December 2021. “‘I Have to Start From Where I’m Capable:’ How Low-Income Postsecondary Students Overcome Financial and Academic Obstacles.” Journal of Youth Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.2010692. 

Aronson, Pamela and Matthew Fleming. 2019. “Tapping and Assessing the Concept of Educational Regret: Methodological Techniques for Opening Up Biographical Reflection.” Contemporary Social Science. 14:3-4, 394-406, https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2018.1448938.

• Reprinted in Biographical Research: Challenges and Creativity. 2022. Edited by Ana Caetano and Magda Nico. Routledge. 

Aronson, Pamela and Ivy Forsythe-Brown.  2019. “Balancing Family, Aspirations, and Higher Education: The Gendered Experiences of Second Generation Arab American College Women.” In Gender and Youth Migration:  A Global Survey, edited by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio.  Policy Press.

Aronson, Pamela. 2017. “’I’ve Learned to Love What’s Going to Pay Me:’ A Culture of Despair in Higher Education during a Time of Insecurity.”  Critical Sociology. Vol. 43(3) 389–403. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0896920516633276.

Aronson, Pamela.  2017. “Contradictions in the American Dream:  High Educational Aspirations and Perceptions of Collapsing Institutions.”  International Journal of Psychology, 52 (1): 49-57.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12396.

Aronson, Pamela and Ashleigh Hodge.  2013. “Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Positive Transitions in Urban Communities.”  Pp. 239-251in Adolescent Development and School Achievement in Urban Communities: Resilience in the Neighborhood, edited by Gary Creasey and Patricia Jarvis.  New York, NY:  Taylor & Francis/Routledge.  

Aronson, Pamela.  2008.  “Breaking Barriers or Locked Out?  Class-based Perceptions and Experiences of Postsecondary Education.”  New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 119, Spring:  41-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.208. 

Aronson, Pamela and Islam Jaffal. Published online December 2021. “Zoom Memes for Self-Quaranteens: Generational Conflict, Identity, and Solidarity during the Pandemic.” Emerging Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F21676968211058513. 

Arnaldo Mont’Alvao, Pamela Aronson and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2020. “Uncertainty and Disruption in the Transition to Adulthood during COVID-19.” Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19: Volume 2 – Global Perspectives, edited by Glenn Muschert, Kristen Budd, David Lane and Jason Smith. The Bristol University Press.

Mortimer, Jeylan T., Arnaldo Mont’Alvao, and Pamela Aronson. Published online November 15, 2019. “Decline of the ‘American Dream?’  Outlook toward the Future across Three Generations of Midwest Families.” Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz130

Aronson, Pamela, Thomas Callahan and Timothy Davis. 2015.  “The Transition to Adulthood during the Great Recession:  Employment, Financial and Identity Challenges.” Journal of Youth Studies,Vol. 18, No. 9, 1097–1118. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2015.1020931

Aronson, Pamela and Jeylan T. Mortimer.  2013.  “Subjective Preferences vs. Objective Realities:  Voices of Full-and Part-Time Employed Mothers.”  Pp. 185-212 in Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research:  Visions of the 21st Century Family: Transforming Structures and Identities, edited by Patricia Neff Claster and Sampson Lee Blair.  United Kingdom:  Emerald Books.  

Aronson, Pamela.  2008. “The Markers and Meanings of Growing Up:  Contemporary Young Women’s Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood.”Gender & Society, 22, 1, February:  56-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243207311420. 

Aronson, Pamela.  2007.  “Growing Up Alone:  The Absence of Young Women’s Positive Life Models.”  Advances in Life Course Research, 11: 69-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-2608(06)11003-5 . 

Aronson, Pamela.  1999.  “The Balancing Act:  Young Women’s Expectations and Experiences of Work and Family.” Pp. 55-83 in Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 7, edited by Toby Parcel. Stamford, CT:  JAI Press.

Mortimer, Jeylan T., Carolyn Harley and Pamela Aronson.  1999.  “How do Prior Experiences in the Workplace Set the Stage for Transitions to Adulthood?”  Pp. 131-59 in Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy:  No Work, No Family, No Future?edited by Alan Booth, Nan Crouter, and Michael Shanahan.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press.

Aronson, Pamela, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Carol Zierman, and Michael Hacker. 1996.  “Generational Differences in Early Work Experiences and Evaluations.” Pp. 25-62 in Adolescents, Work, and Family:  An Intergenerational Developmental Analysis, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael D. Finch.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.