Joan Z SpadeJoan Z. Spade is professor emerita of sociology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, in Brockport, New York. She received her MA from the University of Rochester and her PhD from the University of Buffalo. She has been teching and writing in the field for more than 30 years, including a semester teaching in Budapest, Hungary, as a Fulbright Scholar; she is coeditor of implementing Educational Reform: Sociological perspectives on Educational Policy and coauthor of articles in sociology of education on stratification and grouping practices in education. She publishes in other areas, including gender and family, and is coeditor with Catherine G. Valentine of The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities. She is a member of the ASA, including the ASA Section on Sociology of Education, the Eastern Sociological Society, and Sociologists for Women in Society. Read More Read Less