Books:
Joanna Wuest, Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (Fall 2023 with the University of Chicago Press).
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Joanna Wuest, "After Liberation: Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left," Polity 54, no.3 (2022): 478-502.
Joanna Wuest, "A Conservative Right to Privacy: Legal, Ideological, and Coalitional Transformations in U.S. Social Conservatism," Law & Social Inquiry 46, no.4 (2021): 964-92.
Joanna Wuest, “From Pathology to 'Born Perfect’: Science, Law, and Citizenship in American LGBTQ+ Advocacy,” Perspectives on Politics 19, no.3 (2021): 838-53.
Joanna Wuest, "The Racial Disparity Politics of Biomedical Research: Disaggregating Categories into New Essentialisms," nonsite (Winter 2020), [link].
Jo Wuest, "The Scientific Gaze in American Transgender Politics: Contesting the Meanings of Sex, Gender, and Gender Identity in the Bathroom Rights Cases," Politics & Gender 15, no.2 (June 2019): 336-60.
Essays & Reviews:
Joanna Wuest, “State, Economy, and LGBTQ+ Civil Rights," Law and Political Economy Project Blog, February 2, 2022 [link].
Joanna Wuest, Book Review on Andrew Koppelman, Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty?: The Unnecessary Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), Perspectives on Politics, March 2021).
Public Writing:
Joanna Wuest, "The Dead End of Corporate Activism," Boston Review, May 18, 2022, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Briana Last, "Dark Money, the Supreme Court, and the Fate of LGBTQ+ Rights," The Nation, June 21, 2021, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Briana Last, “With Gay Adoption Decision, Will the Supreme Court Erode the Regulatory State?,” Boston Review, April 15, 2021, [link].
Joanna Wuest, "Beyond 'Born This Way," Psyche, February 24, 2021 [link].
Joanna Wuest, "Mutual Aid Can't Do It Alone," The Nation, December 28/January 4 2021 Issue, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “The Supreme Court, Capital, and Queer Equality,” The Nation, June 16, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “Abortion After the Pandemic," Dissent, May 13, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “The State of Biopower in the Age of the Coronavirus,” Los Angeles Review of Book’s The Philosophical Salon, April 16, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “Beyond Intersectionality," The Nation, February 24, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Carly Regina, “Labor Has Only One Candidate," Jacobin, September 22, 2019, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Carly Regina, “Did Representative Dwight Evans Flip Flop on Medicare for All?" The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 2019, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Carly Regina, “The Next LGBTQ+ Movement Is the Movement for Economic Equality," The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 6, 2019, [link].
Forthcoming Work:
Joanna Wuest, “The Dream of Bioessentialism is Alive in a Post-Genomic Era,” in “Roundtable on Gay Genes in the Post-genomic Era,” and Stephanie Claire, Patrick Grzanka, and Joanna Wuest, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies [2023].
Joanna Wuest, “Assuaging the Anxious Matriarch: Social Conservatives, Radical Feminists, and Dark Money Against Trans Rights,” in Feminism Against Cisness, ed. Emma Heaney (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023).
Joanna Wuest, “The Science of Civil Rights,” Code of Life: Who We Are and Could Become (Göttingen, Germany: Wallstein-Verlag, 2023) [essay in German to accompany an exhibit at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden].
Joanna Wuest, “Sex, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty,” in Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, eds. Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).
Books & Articles in Progress:
Joanna Wuest and Briana S. Last, “Church Against State: How Industry Groups Lead the Religious Liberty Assault on Civil Rights, Healthcare Policy, and the Administrative State," [Article Under Review].
Briana S. Last and Joanna Wuest, "Policy Disputes Over Evidence-Based Care for Sexual and Gender Minorities," [Abstract Accepted for Special Issue].
Joanna Wuest, Uneven Egalitarianism: Civil Rights, Corporate Power, and American Constitutionalism [Book Manuscript].
Joanna Wuest, "The Political Economy of Social Justice: The Role of Corporations and Business Lobbies in Civil Rights Expansions" [Article].
Joanna Wuest, Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (Fall 2023 with the University of Chicago Press).
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Joanna Wuest, "After Liberation: Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left," Polity 54, no.3 (2022): 478-502.
- Recipient of the Caucus for a New Political Science’s Christian Bay Award for the best paper presented on a New Political Science panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2020.
Joanna Wuest, "A Conservative Right to Privacy: Legal, Ideological, and Coalitional Transformations in U.S. Social Conservatism," Law & Social Inquiry 46, no.4 (2021): 964-92.
- Recipient of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus Bailey Award for the Best Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2019.
- Nominated for the Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law, UCLA Law, 2022.
Joanna Wuest, “From Pathology to 'Born Perfect’: Science, Law, and Citizenship in American LGBTQ+ Advocacy,” Perspectives on Politics 19, no.3 (2021): 838-53.
Joanna Wuest, "The Racial Disparity Politics of Biomedical Research: Disaggregating Categories into New Essentialisms," nonsite (Winter 2020), [link].
Jo Wuest, "The Scientific Gaze in American Transgender Politics: Contesting the Meanings of Sex, Gender, and Gender Identity in the Bathroom Rights Cases," Politics & Gender 15, no.2 (June 2019): 336-60.
Essays & Reviews:
Joanna Wuest, “State, Economy, and LGBTQ+ Civil Rights," Law and Political Economy Project Blog, February 2, 2022 [link].
Joanna Wuest, Book Review on Andrew Koppelman, Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty?: The Unnecessary Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), Perspectives on Politics, March 2021).
Public Writing:
Joanna Wuest, "The Dead End of Corporate Activism," Boston Review, May 18, 2022, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Briana Last, "Dark Money, the Supreme Court, and the Fate of LGBTQ+ Rights," The Nation, June 21, 2021, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Briana Last, “With Gay Adoption Decision, Will the Supreme Court Erode the Regulatory State?,” Boston Review, April 15, 2021, [link].
Joanna Wuest, "Beyond 'Born This Way," Psyche, February 24, 2021 [link].
Joanna Wuest, "Mutual Aid Can't Do It Alone," The Nation, December 28/January 4 2021 Issue, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “The Supreme Court, Capital, and Queer Equality,” The Nation, June 16, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “Abortion After the Pandemic," Dissent, May 13, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “The State of Biopower in the Age of the Coronavirus,” Los Angeles Review of Book’s The Philosophical Salon, April 16, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest, “Beyond Intersectionality," The Nation, February 24, 2020, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Carly Regina, “Labor Has Only One Candidate," Jacobin, September 22, 2019, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Carly Regina, “Did Representative Dwight Evans Flip Flop on Medicare for All?" The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 2019, [link].
Joanna Wuest and Carly Regina, “The Next LGBTQ+ Movement Is the Movement for Economic Equality," The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 6, 2019, [link].
Forthcoming Work:
Joanna Wuest, “The Dream of Bioessentialism is Alive in a Post-Genomic Era,” in “Roundtable on Gay Genes in the Post-genomic Era,” and Stephanie Claire, Patrick Grzanka, and Joanna Wuest, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies [2023].
Joanna Wuest, “Assuaging the Anxious Matriarch: Social Conservatives, Radical Feminists, and Dark Money Against Trans Rights,” in Feminism Against Cisness, ed. Emma Heaney (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023).
Joanna Wuest, “The Science of Civil Rights,” Code of Life: Who We Are and Could Become (Göttingen, Germany: Wallstein-Verlag, 2023) [essay in German to accompany an exhibit at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden].
Joanna Wuest, “Sex, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty,” in Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, eds. Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).
Books & Articles in Progress:
Joanna Wuest and Briana S. Last, “Church Against State: How Industry Groups Lead the Religious Liberty Assault on Civil Rights, Healthcare Policy, and the Administrative State," [Article Under Review].
Briana S. Last and Joanna Wuest, "Policy Disputes Over Evidence-Based Care for Sexual and Gender Minorities," [Abstract Accepted for Special Issue].
Joanna Wuest, Uneven Egalitarianism: Civil Rights, Corporate Power, and American Constitutionalism [Book Manuscript].
Joanna Wuest, "The Political Economy of Social Justice: The Role of Corporations and Business Lobbies in Civil Rights Expansions" [Article].