Publications

Books

Front Cover of "The Sex Obsession"

The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics by Janet R. Jakobsen. New York: New York University Press, 2020

https://nyupress.org/9781479846085/the-sex-obsession/

"Love the Sin" Book Cover

Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Freedom by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini. New York: New York University Press, 2003

Introduction, Secularisms, ed. by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008

https://www.dukeupress.edu/secularisms

“Is Secularism Less Violent than Religion?” in Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence, ed. by Elizabeth Castelli and Janet R. Jakobsen. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004.

Cover of "Working Alliances"

Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics by Janet R. Jakobsen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Selected Essays

“Equality of Religious Freedom,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 86.1 (March 2018): 235-40. https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-abstract/86/1/235/4827833?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“Gender, Sex, and Religious Freedom in the Context of Secular Law,” with Christine M. Jacobsen and Myanthi Fernando, Feminist Review, 113 (2016): 93-102. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1057/fr.2016.4

“Collaborations,” American Quarterly, 64.4 (December 2012): 827-32. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/494059

“Perverse Justice,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 18.1 (2012): 19-28. https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/18/1/19/34803/Perverse-Justice?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“Work is Not the Only Problem,” Got Life?: Roundtable Discussion on Work-Life Balance, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 23.2 (Fall 2007): 127-31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20487903?seq=1

“Queer Is? Queer Does?: Normativity and Resistance,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 4.4 (1998): 511-36. https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/4/4/511/69281/Queer-Is-Queer-Does-Normativity-and-the-Problem-of?redirectedFrom=PDF  

Special Issues of
Scholar & Feminist Online

 “Activism and the Academy,” with Catherine Sameh (2013-14): sfonline.barnard.edu/activism-and-the-academy/

“Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations,” with Elizabeth Bernstein (2013): http://sfonline.barnard.edu/gender-justice-and-neoliberal-transformations/

“Valuing Domestic Work,” with Gisela Fosado (2009): http://sfonline.barnard.edu/work/

“Toward a Vision of Sexual and Economic Justice,” with Kate Bedford (2009): http://sfonline.barnard.edu/sexecon/