Jessie Bernard Award

ASA Jessie Bernard Award was originally a biennial award for career and/or publication, and is now annual. The award is named after Jessie Bernard.

Recipients

The Award was originally a biennial award for career and/or publication, and is now annual.

• 2025 - Manisha Desai
• 2024 - Cecilia Menjívar
• 2023 - Raka Ray
• 2022 - Marlese Durr
• 2021 - Jyoti Puri
• 2020 - Jennifer Glass
• 2019
  • Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
  • Bandana Purkayastha
• 2018 - No award presented
• 2017 - Raewyn Connell, career
• 2016 - Ronnie J. Steinberg, career
• 2015 - Nancy A. Naples, career
• 2014
  • Esther Ngan-ling Chow, career
  • Christine L. Williams, career
• 2013 - Kathleen Gerson, career
• 2012 - Michael A. Messner, career
• 2011 - Verta Taylor, career
• 2010 - Harriet Presser, career
• 2009 - Cecilia L. Ridgeway, career
• 2008 - Arlie Hochschild, career
• 2007 - Patricia Yancey Martin, career
• 2006 - Margaret L. Andersen, career
• 2005 - Evelyn Nakano Glenn, career
• 2004 - Myra Marx Ferree, career
• 2003 - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, career
• 2002 - Barrie Thorne, career
• 2001 - Barbara Laslett, career
• 2000 - Maxine Baca Zinn, career
• 1999 - Paula England, career
• 1998 - Ruth A. Wallace, career
• 1997
  • Nona Glazer, career;
  • Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth (University of Illinois Press, 1995);
    • Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (University of California Press, 1994).
• 1996
  • Judith Lorber, career;
  • Diane L. Wolf, Factory Daughters (University of California Press, 1992).
• 1995
  • Arlene Kaplan Daniels, career;
  • Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minnesota);
  • Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community (Routledge).
• 1993
  • Dorothy Smith, career;
  • Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber) for significant collective work;
  • Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.
• 1991 - Barbara Katz Rothman, Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchical Society (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989).
• 1989
  • Joan Acker, career;
  • Samuel R. Cohn, The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain (Temple University Press, 1985);
    • Honorable Mention: Karen Brodkin Sacks, Caring by the Hour (University of Illinois Press).
• 1987
  • Sandra Harding, The Science Question in Feminism (Cornell University Press, 1986);
  • Judith Rollins, Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers (Temple University Press, 1986).
• 1985
  • Joan Huber, career;
  • Judith G. Stacey, Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China.
• 1983 - Alice Rossi, career
• 1981 - Elise Boulding, career
• 1979
  • Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer, The Female Labor Force in the United States: Demographic and Economic Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition (University of California and Greenwood Press);
  • Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (University of California Press);
    • Honorable Mention to Kristin Luker, Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press).