Sharlene Hesse-Biber is a professor of sociology and co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Boston College..
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Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber is professor of sociology and the director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has published widely on the impact of sociocultural fac¬tors on women’s body image, including her book Am I Thin Enough Yet?
The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity (Oxford, 1996), which was selected as one of Choice magazine’s best academic books for 1996. She recently published The Cult of Thinness (Oxford, 2007. She is coeditor of Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice (Oxford, 2004), and Emergent Methods in Social Research (SAGE, 2006).
She is author of The Practice of Qualitative Research (SAGE, Third edition forthcoming, 2016). She is editor of the Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (SAGE, 2nd Edition, 2012), which was selected as one of the Critics’ Choice Award winners by the American Education Studies Association and was als