Eleanor Townsley

Associate Professor of Sociology

Email: etownsle@mtholyoke.edu

Office: Merrill House, Room 201

Tel: 413-538-2803

Books:

Townsley, Eleanor R., G. Eyal & Ivan Szelenyi. 1998. Making Capitalism Without Capitalists. London: Verso.

Articles:

Townsley, Eleanor R. 2006 “The public intellectual trope in the United States”. The American Sociologist 37(3):39-66.

Townsley, Eleanor R., G. Eyal & Ivan Szelenyi. 2003. "On Irony: An Invitation to Neoclassical Sociology" . Thesis Eleven. No. 73 May: 1-37. (Also published in German 2002 in the Berliner Journal fur Soziologie.)

Townsley, Eleanor R. 2001. " The Sixties Trope" Theory, Culture, and Society. Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 99-123.

Townsley, Eleanor R., G. Eyal & Ivan Szelenyi. 2001. "The utopia of post-socialist theory and the ironic view of history in neo-classical sociology" American Journal of Sociology, vol. 106, no. 4, pp. 1121-1128.

Townsley, Eleanor R. 2000. "A History of Intellectuals and the Demise of the New Class: Academics and the U.S. Government in the 1960s". Theory and Society, vol. 29, No 6, pp. 739-784.

Townsley, Eleanor R. & Julie E. Press. 1998. "Wives, Husbands, and Housework Reporting: Gender, Class, and Perceptions of Social Desirability" Gender and Society vol.12 no. 2, pp. 188-218.

Townsley, Eleanor R., Gil Eyal & Ivan Szelenyi. 1997. "Capitalism Without Capitalists: The Remaking of the Economic Institutions of State-Socialism". New Left Review No. 222, March/April, pp. 60-92.

Townsley, Eleanor R. & Gil Eyal. 1995. "The Social Composition of the Communist Nomenklatura". Theory and Society, vol. 24, no. 5 pp. 723-750.

Townsley, Eleanor R., & Ruth Milkman. 1994. "Gender and the Economy". Pp. 600-619 in Handbook of Economic Sociology, Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, ed. New York: Russell Sage and Princeton University Press.

Book Reviews:

Townsley, Eleanor R., 1998. "Time for Life by John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey" (book review). Contemporary Sociology vol 27, no. 4, pp. 251-252.

Townsley, Eleanor R., 1993. "Neighborhood Politics by Robert J. Dilger" (book review). American Journal of Sociology, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 522-524.

Other Publications:

Townsley, Eleanor R. 2006 “Women in Science at Mount Holyoke”. (With Diiv Sternman, the Mount Holyoke Archives and the Sociology 224 class of Spring 2006). INSTALLATION Women in Medicine Exhibition, National Library Of Medicine. Mount Holyoke College, September 2006.

Townsley, Eleanor R. 2004 “Remembering Then, Celebrating Now: Sociology 224 Meets the MHC Class of 1955” (with sociology 224 and the MHC class of 1955). DVD, Mount Holyoke College Archives. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/etownsle/soc224/2004/project3a.html

Townsley, Eleanor R., 2001. "Change and Tradition at Mount Holyoke -- An interchange with retired faculty, staff & their partners." ANNOTATED ARCHIVAL TRANSCRIPT. (With the students of Sociology 224, Fall 2000 and the Mount Holyoke Archives). Please contact me for permission to view the transcript.

Townsley, Eleanor R., 1999. "Teaching the Dreaded Stats Requirement in Sociology: notes from the field." In Quantitative Teaching Resources, edited by Cynthia Rowan. Washington DC: American Sociological Association.

Townsley, Eleanor R., 1998. "'Liberal' Academics and the U.S. Government in the 1960's". In Fettschrift for Iván Szelényi on his 60th birthday. Edited by Éva Fodor and Lanos Ladanyi. Budapest: Budapest University of Economics, Department of Sociology.