Winners of the Ruth Benedict Prize
2011
Monographs:
Evelyn Blackwood
Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia
(Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2010)
Roger N. Lancaster
Sex Panic and the Punitive State
(University of California Press, 2011)Edited Volume:
Peter A. Jackson
Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights
(Hong Kong University Press, 2011)
2010
Monographs:
Deborah Gould
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Ellen Lewin
Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)Edited Volume:
David A. B. Murray
Homophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space
(Duke University Press, 2009)
2009
Monographs:
Rudolf Pell Gaudio
Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic City
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
Mary L. Gray
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
(New York University Press, 2009)Edited Volume:
Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap, Editors
Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
2008
Mark Padilla
Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic
(University Of Chicago Press, 2007)
Barbara L. Voss
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco
(University of California Press, 2008)
2007
Monographs:
David Valentine
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
(Duke University Press, 2007)
Gloria Wekker
The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
(Columbia University Press, 2007)Edited Volume:
Saskia Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha Bhaiya, Editors
Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia
(Palgrave Press, 2007)
2006
Tanya Erzen
Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
(University of California Press, 2006)
2005
Tom Boellstorff
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
(Princeton University Press, 2005)
2004
Monograph:
Megan Sinnot
Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand
(University of Hawaii Press, 2004)Edited Volume:
Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap, Editors
Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology
(University of Illinois Press, 2004)
2003
Martin F. Manalansan IV
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
(Duke University Press, 2003)
2002
Hector Carrillo
The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)
2001
Arlene Stein
The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
(Beacon Press, 2001)
2000
Monographs:
Esther Newton
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas
(Duke University Press, 2000)
Stephen O. Murray
Homosexualities
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)Edited Volume:
Barbara L. Voss and Robert A. Schmidt, Editors
Archaeologies of Sexuality
(Routledge, 2000)
1999
Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa, Editors
Female Desires: Same Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures
(Columbia University Press, 1999)
1998
Jennifer Robertson
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
(University of California Press, 1998)
1997
Monograph:
Kath Weston
Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins
(Columbia University Press, 1996)Edited Volume:
Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, Editors
Two-spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality
(University of Illinois Press, 1997)
1996
William L. Leap
Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English
(University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
Carter Wilson
Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan
(Columbia University Press, 1995)
1995
Joseph Carrier
De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men
(Columbia University Press, 1995)
1994
Esther Newton
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town
(Beacon Press, 1993)
1993
Roger Lancaster
Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua
(University of California Press, 1992)
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
(Routledge, 1993)
1992
Ellen Lewin
Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture
(Cornell University Press, 1993)
1991
Richard Parker
Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil
(Beacon Press, 1991)
1990
Kath Weston
Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship
(Columbia University Press, 1991)
Serena Nanda
Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India
(Wadsworth Press, 1990)
1987
Gilbert Herdt
The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1987)
1986
Walter L. Williams
The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
(Beacon Press, 1986)
