Jean Halley - Welcome

"The Roads to Hillbrow is a joyous ride through the past and legacy of this amazing Johannesburg neighborhood. Tracking the historical origin and important milestones of Hillbrow, the book traces some of the remarkable (and colorful) people and events that have characterized this fascinating and often misunderstood area of Johannesburg."

–Margot Rubin

Animal studies; Feminist thought

Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses

“Drawing on rich interviews, personal experience, and extensive reading of fiction, sociology, and history, Halley’s Horse Crazy gives us girl-with-horse—its meaning, its influences, its ramifications. In my youth, I was gloriously a girl-with-horse, but it is only after reading Halley’s illuminating and fascinating book that I comprehend its profoundly transformative power.”

–Carol J Adams

Feminist thought; Queer studies

Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege

“A beautifully written handbook on understanding how systems of power and privilege warp, cloud, and distort human sexual and gender experience. I think the concluding section will save many lives, as the authors offer realistic hopes based on existing social progress.”

–Peggy McIntosh

Memoir; Social History

The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets

“This book is a tour de force, a magnificent performance in its own right.”

–Norman K Denzin

Social Science; Critical Race Theory

Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race

“Seeing White engagingly makes whiteness into a problem – one needing to be investigated in all its human and inhumane dimensions.”

–David Roediger

Sociology; Family Studies

Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy

“Brilliantly conceived… Boundaries of Touch offers readers a rare opportunity to rethink their ‘common knowledge’ about child rearing.”

–Stuart Ewen

Social Theory

The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social

"The essays in this volume are evidence of what Patricia Clough identifies as an affective turn in the humanities and social sciences."

–Michael Hardt

Welcome

Jean Halley is a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York (CUNY). They earned their doctorate in sociology at the Graduate Center of CUNY, and their master’s degree in theology at Harvard University. Halley's book about touching children, breastfeeding, children’s sleep and contemporary childrearing advice, Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy was published in July 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. They assisted Patricia Ticineto Clough in editing The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social in 2007 (Duke University Press). Halley co-authored Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race (Rowman and Littlefield) with Amy Eshleman and Ramya Vijaya in 2011 and a second edition in 2022. And Halley's memoir and social history of cattle ranching in the United States, The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets, came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. Halley and Eshleman published Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege with Rowman and Littlefield (2017). By Ron Nerio and Halley, The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants came out in 2022 with Fordham University Press. Halley's book with the University of Georgia Press about girls who love horses, Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses, came out in 2019. Halley and their horse grew up in the Rocky Mountains. Today they live in New York City.