Books:

 (Compilation, introductions and editor)
 Feminism in the Study of Religion: A Reader. Continuum. June, 2001

Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Texts:

The Fantasy of Gender/Sex: Angela Carter and Mythmaking. In Lee Easton and Randy Schroeder (eds.) The Influence of Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy as Agents of Social Change, 160-173. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008

Deconstructing the Eliadean Paradigm: Symbol. In Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon, eds. Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith, 163-177. London: Equinox Publishers, 2008

Masculinity. In James T. Sears (ed.) The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History, Vol. 6, The Modern World, 146-150. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007

Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down: Waking up in Women’s Studies. In Mathieu Courville (ed.), The Next Step in Studying Religion A Graduate's Guide, 157-168. London: Continuum, 2007

Interdisciplinarity in Religious and Women’s Studies. Studies in Religion. 35/3-4 (2006): 389-399

Spectacles of Gender: Enacting the Masculine in Ancient Rome and Modern Cinema. Religious Studies and Theology, Special Volume: Materializing Roman Religion, Guest Editor Lisa Hughes, 24 (1) 2005: 75-110

Gender. In John Hinnells (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, 225-238. London and New York: Routledge, 2005

Cladistics, Morphologies, Taxonomies and the Comparative Study of Religion. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 16 (1), 2004: 12-23

The Writing of Ethnography: Magical Realism and Michael Taussig. Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 4 (4), 2003: 84-105

Whose Turn is it to Cook?: Victor Turner’s Communitas and Pilgrimage Questioned. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36 (4), 2003: 189-204

Feminist Christian Theological Engagements with Symbol, Myth and Ritual. ARC, The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies (McGill) 30, 2002: 7-33

A Nod in the General Direction of...: Gender in the Study of Religion. Studies in Religion. 30 (2), 2001:215-222

The Wonderful Worlds of Disney and Fundamentalism: The Fetishization of the Family and the Production of American Family Values. Culture and Religion, 2 (1), 2001: 21-39

and Stephan Dobson. Levi-Strauss. In Charles Winquist and Victor E. Taylor (eds). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. London and New York: Routledge, October, 2000

Works in Progress:

Manuscripts:

Political Bodies, Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender. Under contract Equinox Press. Approximate publication date Nov 2009

Working title: Contours of the Flesh: The Semiotics of Pain

In the Eurowest pain is discursively framed as something that elides discourse and is therefore outside language. In this framing, pain, as outside language, is given asocial and ahistorical status understood to be beyond human construction. Indeed played out in systems of belief and practice, pain acts as a medium for reciprocal relations with the metaphysical other since it too is understood as originating and sharing a part in the “authentic” or “real” from which the metaphysical, and therefore truth, is understood to emerge. Understood as part of this domain, pain is located in linked to truth and therefore understood to be a means to truth; hence the use of torture to secure the truth. With this kind of discursive framing, this book, seeks to deconstruct and question this kind of framing in an effort to demystify pain, and to make visible the social and political imperatives for its mystification.