The National Council on Family Relations' (NCFR) Feminism and Family Studies Section has conferred its organization's prestigious Jessie Bernard award in feminist research to Carla Pfeffer.

The winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper is Carla Pfeffer from Purdue University’s North Central campus. Dr. Pfeffer's research exists at the intersections of burgeoning areas of sociological inquiry connected to contemporary LGBTQ families, gender, and bodies. Pfeffer's most recent work has been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Lesbian Studies, and Journal of Homosexuality. Pfeffer is currently working on a book, Postmodern Partnerships: Women, Transgender Men, and Twenty-First Century Queer Families, under contract with Oxford University Press.

Dr. Pfeffer’s work on women's partnerships with transgender and transsexual men considers social actors' disruption of existing sociolegal notions of identities, bodies, and families. The families and relationships these partners co-create often cannot be neatly conceptualized as either "same-sex" or "opposite-sex" using existing typologies. Pfeffer is also working on a study examining fat and size-acceptance advocates and activists in the era of the "obesity epidemic" to consider how weight management attempts, and disclosures about these attempts, simultaneously reflect and fissure notions of "responsible" social citizenship, health, and sociopolitical group membership.

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