You-Lo Hsieh

Susan B. Kaiser

Ning Pan

Margaret H. Rucker

Gang Sun

Joan Chandler

Professor Emeritus

 

 

Susan B. Kaiser
Professor
Professor of Women and Gender Studies

Telephone: (530) 752-9277
Email: sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu


Research Interests

  • Fashion theory and feminist epistemologies
  • Youth style and cultural anxiety
  • Cultural studies approach to appearance style and identity, focusing on intersections among gender, race, and ethnicity

Teaching

TXC 7 Style and Cultural Studies (4 units), Spring
TXC 230 Behavioral Science Concepts in Textiles (3 units), Fall
SAS 15 AIDS and Society (4 units), Spring

Recent Publications

  • Kaiser, S.B., Chandler, J.L., and Hammidi, T. (2001). Minding Appearances in Female Academic Culture. In A. Guy, E. Green and M. Banim (Eds), Through the Wardrobe: Women?s Relationships with Their Clothes. Pp. 117-136. Oxford, New York: Berg.
  • Michelman, S. O., and S.B. Kaiser (2000). Feminist Issues in Textiles and Clothing Research: Working through/with the Contradictions. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 18(3): 121-127.
  • Michelman, S. O., and S.B. Kaiser (2000). The Feminist Forum: Voices from the Field. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 18(3): 182-184.
  • Kaiser, S.B (1999). Identity, postmodernity, and the global apparel marketplace. In M.L. Damhorst, K. Miller, and S. Michelman (Eds) Meanings of Dress. New York: Fairchild.
  • Janus, T., Kaiser, S.B., and G. Gray (1999). Negotiations @ work. In M.L. Damhorst, K. Miller and S. Michelman (Eds) Meanings of Dress. New York: Fairchild.
  • Hammidi, T.N., and S.B. Kaiser (1999). Doing beauty: Negotiating lesbian looks in everyday life. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 3(4): 55-63.
  • Hammidi, T.N., and S.B. Kaiser (1999). Doing beauty: Negotiating lesbian looks in everyday life. In J. Cogan and J. Erickson (Eds) Lesbians, Levis and lipstick: The meaning of beauty in our lives. New York, London, Oxford: Harrington Park Press (Imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc.)
  • Hethorn, J., and S.B. Kaiser. (1999). Youth style: Articulating cultural anxiety. Visual Sociology, 14: 109-125.

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