Contact Info

Sara I. McClelland, Ph.D.
University of Michigan

Assistant Professor,
Psychology & Women's Studies
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Michigan Society of Fellows

530 Church St.
3002 East Hall
Ann Arbor, MI  48109

Phone: 734-763-1097
Email: saramcc@umich.edu



Related Pages

UMichigan Personality & Social Contexts Psychology website here

UMichigan Women's Studies & Psychology website here

Society of Fellows website here

Writing About My Work

The New York Times, "Teaching Good Sex," Nov. 16, 2011: link here

NSRC, Coverage of Moral Panics of Sexuality Conference, ASU, Oct. 18, 2011: link here

Center for Sexual Pleasure & Health, Review of Intimate Justice, Feb. 15, 2011: link here

Publications

Sexual Health & Research Methods

  • McClelland, S.I. (in press, 2012). Measuring sexual quality of life: Ten recommendations for health psychologists. In A. Baum, T.A. Revenson, & J. Singer (Eds.), Handbook of Health Psychology. PDF here
  • McClelland, S.I. (2011). Who is the "self" in self-reports of sexual satisfaction? Research and policy implications. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 8(4), 304-320. PDF here
  • McClelland, S.I. (2010). Intimate justice: A critical analysis of sexual satisfaction. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4(9), 663-680. PDF here
  • McClelland, S.I. and Metzl, J.M. (2007). Impotence and sexual dysfunction. M. Flood, J.K. Gardiner, B. Pease, and K. Pringle (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. London: Routledge. PDF here /Order book here

Adolescent Sexual Development

  • Tolman, D.L. & McClelland, S.I. (2011). Normative sexuality development in adolescence: A decade in review 2000-2009. Journal of Research in Adolescence, 21(1), 242-255. PDF here
  • McClelland, S.I. and Fine, M. (2008). Writing on cellophane: Studying teen women's sexual desires; Inventing methodological release points. K. Gallagher (Ed.), The Methodological Dilemma: Critical and Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research, 232-260. London: Routledge. PDF here / Order book here
  • McClelland, S.I. and Fine, M. (2008). Rescuing a theory of adolescent sexual excess: Young women and wanting. A. Harris (Ed.), Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, 83-102. London: Routledge. PDF here / Order book here
  • McClelland, S.I. and Fine, M. (2008). Embedded science: Critical analysis of abstinence-only evaluation research. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 8(1), 50-81. PDF here
  • McClelland, S.I. (2008). Book Review: Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook & Guide, C. Cocca, Ed. Journal of Sex Research, 45(3), 315-317. PDF here
  • Fine, M. and McClelland, S.I. (2007). The politics of teen women’s sexuality: Public policy and the adolescent female body. Emory Law Journal, 56(4), 993-1038. PDF here
  • Fine, M. and McClelland, S.I. (2006). Sexuality education and desire: Still missing after all these years. Harvard Educational Review, 76(3), 297-338. abstract / PDF here

Psychology & Social Justice

  • McClelland, S.I. & Opotow, S. (2011). Studying injustice in the macro and micro spheres: Four generations of social psychological research. In P. Coleman (Ed.), Conflict, Interdependence and Justice: The Intellectual Legacy of Morton Deutsch, 119-145. New York: Springer. PDF here
  • Opotow, S. and McClelland, S.I. (2007).The intensification of hating: A theory. Social Justice Research, 20(1), 68-97. PDF here