Tina Fetner, Professor

Tina Fetner - Professor, Sociologist, Chair of the Sociology Department at McMaster University.

Research

Books

Tina Fetner. 2024. Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Available for pre-order at UBC Press.

Tina Fetner. 2008. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. University of Minnesota Press.

Research Articles

Lexie Milmine and Tina Fetner. 2024. “Practice What You Preach: Complicating the Relationship between Christian Religious Identity, Abortion Attitudes, and Reported Abortion Experiences among Canadians.” Socius 10. This is an open-access publication.

Tina Fetner, Nicole Andrejek, Megan Werger, and Meghan Bird. 2023. “Christian Religious Identity and Sexual Behaviour in Canada Today.” Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 32(2):141-150. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tina Fetner. 2022. “Feminist Identity and Sexual Behavior: The Intimate is Political.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 51:441-452. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Nicole Andrejek, Tina Fetner, and Melanie Heath. 2022. “Climax as Work: Heteronormativity, Gender Labor, and the Gender the Gap in Orgasms.” Gender & Society 36(2):189-213. This is an open-access publication.

Tony Silva and Tina Fetner. 2023. “Men’s Feminist Identification and Reported Use of Prescription Erectile Dysfunction Medication.” Journal of Sex Research  60(4):463-472. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tony Silva and Tina Fetner. 2022. “Sexual Identity-Behavior Discordance in Canada.” Canadian Review of Sociology. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Max Stick and Tina Fetner. 2021. “Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men’s Sex with Women.” Men and Masculinities 24(5):780-801. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tina Fetner and Meghan Bird. 2021. “Survey of Hamilton’s Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Community: On Moving Forward with Hamilton Police Service.” Report commissioned by Hamilton Police Service.

Tina Fetner, Michelle Dion, Melanie Heath, Nicole Andrejek, Sarah L. Newell, and Max Stick. 2020. “Condom Use in Penile-Vaginal Intercourse among Canadian Adults: Results from the Sex in Canada Survey.” PLOS ONE 15(2):e0228981. This is an open-access publication.

Tina Fetner. 2019. “The Religious Right in the United States and Canada: Evangelical Communities, Critical Junctures, and Institutional Infrastructures.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 24(1):95-113. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Nicole Andrejek and Tina Fetner. 2019. “The Gender Gap in Orgasms: Survey Data from a Mid-sized Canadian City.” International Journal of Sexual Health 31(1):26-35. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tina Fetner. 2019. “The Religious Right in Canada and the United States and Right-Wing Activism in Canada Today.” Pp. 55-65 in Robert Brym, ed. The Future of Social Movements in Canada. Oakville, ON: Rock’s Mills Press.

Deena Abul-Fottouh and Tina Fetner. 2018. “Solidarity or Schism: Ideological Congruence and the Twitter Networks of Egyptian Activists.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 23(1):23-44. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tina Fetner and Melanie Heath. 2018. “Studying the ‘Right’ Can Feel Wrong: Reflections on Researching Anti-LGBT Movements.” Chapter 8 in D’Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, and Kristen Schilt, eds. Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Tina Fetner and Melanie Heath. 2016. “Do Same-Sex and Straight Weddings Aspire to the Fairytale? Women’s Conformity and Resistance to Traditional Weddings.” Sociological Perspectives. 59:721-742. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tina Fetner. 2016. “U.S. Attitudes toward Lesbian and Gay People are Better than Ever.” Contexts 15:20-27. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tina Fetner and Athena Elafros. 2015. “The GSA Difference: LGBTQ and Ally Experiences in High Schools With and Without Gay-Straight Alliances.” Social Sciences 4:563-581. This is an open-access publication.

Tina Fetner, Allyson Stokes, and Carrie B. Sanders. 2015. “Institution Building and the Religious Right: Lessons from U.S. and Canadian History.” Pp. 44-60 in Howard Ramos and Kathleen Rodgers, eds. Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. (pdf)

Tina Fetner and Brayden G. King. 2014. “Three-Layer Movements, Resources, and the Tea Party.” Pp. 35-54 in Nella Van Dyke and David S. Meyer, eds. Understanding the Tea Party Movement. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. (pdf)

Tina Fetner. 2013. “Religious Right Activism in Canada and the United States: Are We Headed in the Same Direction?” Pp. 123-143 in Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, eds., The Sixties and Beyond: Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945-2000. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (pdf)

Tina Fetner, Athena Elafros, Sandra Bortolin and Coralee Drechsler. 2012. “Safe Spaces: Gay-Straight Alliances in High School.” Canadian Review of Sociology 49:188-207. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Tina Fetner and Carrie B. Sanders. 2012. “Similar Strategies, Different Outcomes: Institutional Histories of the Christian Right of Canada and of the United States.” Pp. 245-262 in Strategies for Social Change. Greg Maney, Rachel Kutz-Flamembaum, Deanna Rohlinger, and Jeff Goodwin, eds. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Tina Fetner and Carrie B. Sanders. 2011. “The Pro-Family Movement in Canada and the United States: Institutional Histories and Barriers to Diffusion.” Pp. 87-100 in Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States. David Rayside and Clyde Wilcox, eds. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Tina Fetner. 2008. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Social Movements, Protest and Contention series.

Robert Andersen and Tina Fetner. 2008. “Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies.” American Journal of Political Science 52:942-58. (pdf)

Robert Andersen and Tina Fetner. 2008. “Cohort Differences in Tolerance of Homosexuality: Attitudinal Change in Canada and the United States, 1981-2000.” Public Opinion Quarterly 72:311-330. (pdf)

Tina Fetner and Kristin Kush. 2008. “Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: Social Predictors of Early Adoption.” Youth & Society 40:114-130. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Jackie Smith and Tina Fetner. 2007. “Structural Approaches to Social Movements.” Pages 13-57 in Bert Klandermans and Conny Roggeband, eds. Handbook of Social Movements across Disciplines. NY: Springer Press.

Tina Fetner. 2006. “The Pro-Family Movement.” Pp. 423-429 in Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer and Chet Meeks, eds. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies. London and NY: Routledge. (reprinted for 2nd edition: 2011).

Tina Fetner. 2005. “Ex-gay Rhetoric and the Politics of Sexuality: The Christian Antigay/Pro-family Movement’s ‘Truth in Love’ Ad Campaign.” Journal of Homosexuality 50:71-96. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, Tina Fetner and Michael P. Young. 2002. “Challengers and States: Toward a Political Sociology of Social Movements.” Sociological Views on Political Participation in the 21st Century. Research in Political Sociology 10:47-83. (pdf)

Tina Fetner. 2001. “Working Anita Bryant: The Impact of Christian Antigay Activism on Lesbian and Gay Movement Claims.” Social Problems 48:411-28. Open-access preprint via SocArXiv.

Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom and Tina Fetner. 2001. “Sharing Secrets Slowly: Issues of Classroom Self-Disclosure Raised by Student Sex Workers.” Teaching Sociology 29:439-53. (pdf)