Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Box 19599
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019-0599
Telephone: (817) 272-3131 or (817) 272-2661
E-mail: shelton@uta.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1984 Sociology
M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1980 Sociology
B.S., Southern Methodist University, 1977 Sociology (Honors)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) 1996-
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, UTA, 1994-1996
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Buffalo, 1990-1994
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Buffalo, 1986- 1990
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Oberlin College, 1984 - 1986
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director, Women's Studies Program and Women and Minorities Research and Resource Center, UTA, 1997-
Director of Graduate Studies, SUNY-Buffalo, 1990-1994
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Gender
Work and Family
Family
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Shelton, Beth Anne. Women, Men and Time: Gender Differences in Paid Work, Housework and Leisure, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
Shelton, Beth Anne, Nestor Rodriguez, Joe Feagin, Robert Bullard and Robert D. Thomas. Houston: A Study of Growth and Decline in a Sunbelt Boomtown,Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989.Articles and Chapters
Buck, Germaine, Mark Baptiste, Philip Nasca, Beth Anne Shelton,Ronald Batt and Pauline Mendola (1997). "A Population-Based Study of Infertile Women Who Do and Do Not Seek Services from Physicians," Assisted Reproduction Reviews 7(2):82-85.
John, Daphne and Beth Anne Shelton (1997) "The Production of Gender among Black and White Women and Men: The Case of Household Labor" Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 36(3/4):171-193.
Firestone, Juanita and Beth Anne Shelton (1997) "The Interdependence of Housework and Paid Work" in Paula J. Dubeck and Kathryn Borman (eds.) Women and Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Republication of article in Encyclopedia of Women and Work Kathryn Borman and Paula Dubeck (eds).
Shelton, Beth Anne and Sheryl Skaggs (1996) "How Faculty Members Spend Their Time: A Closer Look" Academe Sept/Oct 16-19.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Daphne John (1996). "The Division of Household Labor" Annual Review of Sociology 22:299-322.
John, Daphne, Beth Anne Shelton and Kristen Luschen (1995)"Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Perceptions of Fairness," Journal of Family Issues, 16(3):357-379.
Firestone, Juanita and Beth Anne Shelton (1994) A Comparison of Men's and Women's Leisure Time: Subtle Effects of the Double Day," Leisure Sciences 16(1):45-60.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Daphne John (1993). "Race, Ethnicity and Difference: A Comparison of White, Black and Hispanic Men's Household Labor Time" Pp. 131-150 in Jane Hood (ed.) Men, Work and Family. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Marini, Margaret Mooney and Beth Anne Shelton (1993) "Measuring Household Work: Recent Experience in the United States," Social Science Research 22:361-382.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Daphne John (1993) "Does Marital Status Make a Difference? Housework Among Married and Cohabiting Men and Women," Journal of Family Issues, 14(3):401-420.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Ben Agger. (1992). "Shotgun Wedding, Unhappy Marriage, No-Fault Divorce?" Rethinking the Feminism-Marxism Relationship," Pp. 25-42 in Paula England (ed.) Feminism on Theory/Sociology on Gender, New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
"Differing with Feminist Difference: Reply to Folbre" Pp. 337-339 in Paula England (ed.) Feminism on Theory/ Sociology on Gender, New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
"Engendering Class: Reply to Wilson" Pp. 363-364 in Paula England (ed.) Feminism on Theory/ Sociology on Gender, New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Joe R. Feagin (1992). "Community Responses to Growth: The Case of Houston," Research in Community Sociology, Volume II. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Shelton, Beth Anne (1990). "The Distribution of Household Tasks: Does Wife's Employment Status Make A Difference?" Journal of Family Issues 11(2):115-135.
Firestone, Juanita and Beth Anne Shelton (1990). "Impact of Wages on Male and Female Labor Force Participation," Sociology and Social Research, 74(2):127-136.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Juanita Firestone (1989). "Household Labor Time and the Gender Gap in Earnings," Gender & Society, 3(1): 105-112.
Firestone, Juanita and Beth Anne Shelton (1988). "An Estimation of the Effect of Women's Work on Available Leisure Time," Journal of Family Issues, 9(4):478-495.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Juanita Firestone (1988). "An Examination of Household Labor Time as a Factor in Composition and Treatment Effects on the Male-Female Wage Gap," Sociological Focus, 21(3):265-278.
Shelton, Beth Anne and Juanita Firestone (1988). "Time Constraints on Men and Women: Linking Household Labor to Paid Labor," Sociology and Social Research, 72(2):102-104.
Shelton, Beth Anne (1987). "Variations in Divorce Rates by Community Size: A Test of the Social Integration Explanation," Journal of Marriage and the Family, 49:827-832.
Shelton, Beth Anne (1987). "Racial Discrimination at Initial Labor Market Access," National Journal of Sociology, 1(1):101-117.
Feagin, Joe, Nijole Benokraitis, Rose Brewer and Beth Anne Shelton (1986). "Race and Sex Discrimination Today: Conceptual and Research Studies," in Joe Feagin, Discrimination American Style, 2nd. ed., Pp. 185-241.
Glenn, Norval and Beth Anne Shelton (1985). "Regional Differences in Divorce in the United States," Journal of Marriage and Family, 47(3):641-652.
Feagin, Joe R., and Beth Anne Shelton (1985). "Community Organizing in Houston: Social Problems and Citizen Response," Community Development Journal, 20(2):99-105.
Glenn, Norval and Beth Anne Shelton (1983). "Pre-adult Background Variables and Divorce: A Note of Caution About Overreliance on Explained Variance," Journal of Marriage and Family, 45 (May): 405-410.
Cardenas, Gilbert, Beth Anne Shelton and Devon Pena (1982). "Undocumented Women in the Houston Labor Force," California Sociologist, 5(2):98-118.