About Kate Slevin

Areas of Specialization
Aging, Gender and Inequalities

Background
The major focus of my research is to highlight age as a core site of social inequality. I explore age relations and their intersections with gender, race, class and other social hierarchies. Within this focus I have researched and written about retired professional African American women and about old gays and lesbians.

Education
B. Soc. Sc., University College, Dublin
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Georgia

Courses Taught
Principles of Sociology; Sociology of Aging; Sociology of Work

Research
I have published a number of articles and book chapters on aging issues. In addition, I have published three books:

From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones: The Life Experiences of Fifty Professional African American Women, New York University Press, 1998 (with C. Ray Wingrove)
Gender, Social Inequalities, and Aging 2001, which is part of the Gender Lens Series published by Altamira Press (with Toni M. Calasanti)
Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking, Routledge, 2006 (with Toni M. Calasanti)

In 2009 as president of The Southern Sociological Society I delivered an address: “‘If I had lots of money… I’d have a body makeover”: Managing the Aging Body.” This address was published in 2010 in Social Forces.