{"id":117,"date":"2015-08-31T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/emily-w-kane\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:08:49","slug":"emily-w-kane","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/emily-w-kane\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily W. Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BA, Oberlin College; MA, Ph.D., University of Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2024\/06\/VITA-0624.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kane-Vita-June 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Kane\u2019s research and teaching interests encompass inequalities of race, class, gender and sexuality; poverty policy; gender and family; sociology of childhood; research methods; public opinion; social psychology; community-based research; and community-engaged learning.<\/p>\n<p>Some of her recent publications focus on the impact of race and politics in decentralized poverty governance (2024); feminism and community-based research (2020); paternalism in poverty reduction programs (2019); neoliberalism and beliefs about poverty and social policy (2018); how social service providers balance individualist and structuralist explanations for poverty (2016); and using disciplinary debates to engage students in public sociology (2015).<\/p>\n<p>She is also the author of two books, one on how parents reproduce and resist gendered childhoods (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814737835\/the-gender-trap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gender Trap<\/a><\/strong>, published in 2012 by NYU Press) and the other a textbook on gender and sexuality in childhood (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/rethinking-gender-and-sexuality-in-childhood-9781847060822\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood<\/a><\/strong>, published in 2013 by Continuum Publishing).<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":3356,"template":"","class_list":["post-117","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-childhood-studies","expertise-gender-and-sexuality-in-the-u-s","expertise-race-and-class-in-the-u-s","expertise-sociology-of-family","expertise-sociology-of-gender","expertise-specific-community-based-research","expertise-specific-gender-and-childhood","expertise-specific-gender-and-parenting","expertise-specific-higher-education-and-the-public-good","expertise-specific-poverty-and-social-policy","expertise-specific-public-sociology","expertise-specific-publicly-engaged-scholarship","expertise-specific-scholarship-on-community-engaged-pedagogy","what-i-teach-community-engaged-learning","what-i-teach-social-inequality","what-i-teach-social-science-research-methods-quantitative-and-qualitative","what-i-teach-sociological-social-psychology","what-i-teach-specific-community-based-research-methods","what-i-teach-specific-community-engaged-learning-as-a-pedagogy","what-i-teach-specific-gender-and-childhood","what-i-teach-specific-gender-and-family","what-i-teach-specific-higher-education-and-the-public-good","what-i-teach-specific-inequality-and-community","what-i-teach-specific-power-and-inequality","what-i-teach-specific-privilege","what-i-teach-specific-public-sociology","what-i-teach-specific-race-and-class","what-i-teach-specific-research-methods-for-sociology","what-i-teach-specific-self-and-society","what-i-teach-specific-social-change","what-i-teach-specific-sociology-of-gender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7221,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/117\/revisions\/7221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}