Paige L. Sweet

Paige Sweet studies gender and sexuality, knowledge, gender-based violence, health and illness, the state, and embodiment. She is broadly interested in gendered and sexual forms of governance: how identities and social practicies are formed through state programs and medicalized categories. Paige’s work has been published in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Sociological Theory, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, among others. Her book, The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and its Aftermaths, is forthcoming with University of California Press. Paige has taught courses on gender-based violence, gender, and sociological theory. 

Recent Publications

Sweet, Paige and Danielle Giffort. Forthcoming. “The Bad Expert.” Social Studies of Science. 

Sweet, Paige. 2020. “Who Knows? Reflexivity in Feminist Standpoint Theory & Bourdieu.” Gender & Society 34(6): 922-950. 

Sweet, Paige. 2019. “The Sociology of Gaslighting.” American Sociological Review 84(5): 851-875.

Sweet, Paige. 2019. “The Paradox of Legibility: Domestic Violence and Institutional Survivorhood.” Social Problems 66(3): 411-427. 

Sweet Paige, 2018. The Feminist Question in Realism." Sociological Theory 36(3): 221-243.