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Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber, PhD
www2.bc.edu/~hesse/

Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber is the Executive Direction of NAWCHE. She a Professor of Sociology and the Director of Women’s Studies at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has published widely on the impact of sociocultural factors on women’s body image, including her book, Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity (Oxford, 1996), which was selected as one of Choice Magazine’s best academic books for 1996. She recently published The Cult of Thinness (Oxford, 2007). She is the co author of Working Women in America: Split Dreams (Oxford, 2005). She is co editor of Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Oxford, 1999), Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice (Oxford, 2004), and Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2006). She is also the coauthor of The Practice of Qualitative Research (Sage, 2006). She recently edited the Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (Sage, 2007) which was selected as one of the Critics’ Choice Award winners by the American Education Studies Association, and was also chosen as one of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic titles for 2007. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford, 2008). She contributed to the Handbook of Grounded Theory (Sage, 2008) and editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Emergent Technologies for Social Research (Oxford, 2009). She is co-developer of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative data, and the new transcription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE . A fully functional free demo of these programs is available at www.researchware.com. One will also find a free teaching edition for the programs on this site.