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{"title":"“I was just so confused, like does this even count as sexual assault?”: understanding LGBTQA+ sexual victimization, help-seeking, and mental health outcomes","authors":"Brooke A. de Heer, Siréne Lipschutz, Sydney Shevat","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2260323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2260323","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMost research on sexual victimization centres on cisgender, heterosexual experiences and pushes LGBTQA+ experiences to the margins. The current study focuses on queer experiences of sexual victimization and subsequent help-seeking behaviours and mental health outcomes. Fifteen in-depth interviews with queer identifying individuals who experienced sexual violence were conducted and analysed using a thematic analysis approach. A total of 32 incidents of sexual violence were discussed across the 15 participants. Findings indicate that negative disclosure responses from others, as well as normalizing and rationalizing experiences of sexual violence, are detrimental to help-seeking behaviour. Incidents that involved sexually minoritized women and heterosexual men were met with more positive disclosure responses than incidents that occurred between two sexually minoritized women. Additionally, lesbians experienced more supportive reactions to disclosure than bisexual and queer women. Mental health professionals who were knowledgeable and experienced in both trauma and LGBTQA+ related issues had the most impact on improved health and well-being for queer survivors of sexual violence.KEYWORDS: LGBTQA+ sexual victimizationqueer sexual violenceLGBTQA+ help-seekingLGBTQA+ health outcomes Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Sexual violence is a broad term used to describe any unwanted sexual contact that involves coercion, manipulation, or force, including harassment, image-based abuse, touching, rubbing, sexual assault, or rape or threat of these acts.2. The term minoritized is used over minority to emphasize that social and structural forces marginalize certain groups and create systemic discrimination and stigma (Sensoy & DiAngelo, Citation2017; Smith, Citation2016)3. We use the term LGBTQA+ to describe individuals who identify as homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender or any nonconforming sexual orientation and/or identity. We want to highlight differences in social identity (similar to work by Schulze & Koon-Magnin, Citation2017) because it is important to understand how different identities within the LGBTQ+ community experience consent and sexual violence. We also utilize the term queer as an inclusive representation of this diverse group.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [U54MD012388.].Notes on contributorsBrooke A. de HeerBrooke de Heer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. Her research agenda focuses on issues of gender and power in sexual violence, with an emphasis on health disparities and inequitable treatment of marginalized victims involved in the criminal justice (CJ) system. Her work seeks to investigate and validate marginalized peoples’ experiences with sexual violence and work to dismantle systems of oppression that create disparate health outc","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136235512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Negotiating patriarchy and gender in Africa: discourses, practices and policies <i> <b>Negotiating patriarchy and gender in Africa: discourses, practices and policies</b> </i> , by Egodi Uchendu and Ngozi Edeagu, eds, London, Lexington Books, 2021, 352 pp., ISBN: 978 1 7936 4206 6, £ 35.00 (paperback)","authors":"Rebekah Evans","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2261253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2261253","url":null,"abstract":"been overlooked – Serbia, an Eastern European country where feminist and gender equality ideas arrived relatively late on the scene. By examining the media reception of the Serbian translation of a popular children’s book, the author draws thought-provoking conclusions that point to the necessity of introducing feminist and gender-related topics in Serbia – through either original works or translations. New perspectives on gender and translation will appeal to an international readership of students and scholars in the wider field of feminist and gender studies in a range of disciplines not confined to translation studies. The ‘European turn’ that characterizes the essays in this collection will hopefully generate both local and transnational dialogues, debates and activism.","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136236993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Mundeya di Torr</i> : homosociality, the bodybuilder &amp; the <i>pehlwan</i> in contemporary Pakistan","authors":"Saad Ali Khan, Afrasiyab Khan","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2258078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2258078","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPehlwani (Indian wrestling) and bodybuilding are sports characterized by an intense focus on the body and by an almost lifelong commitment to regulating and maintaining this body. Both these sports also align with cultural, hegemonic ideals of what it means to be a man. Finally, both these sports, in the context of Pakistan, also form exclusively male communities based on admiration, love and respect. These communities, however, are reliant on the invisible labour of women (wives, sisters and mothers). This study seeks to understand these sports through a homosocial lens and understand the key features of this homosociality. It also aims to compare these sports and identify similarities and differences. It also seeks to highlight how within hegemonic structures there are spaces for alternative conceptions. This article is based on a qualitative ethnographic study conducted in July 2021 in the cities of Lahore and Gujranwala in Punjab, Pakistan. It consisted of over 30 interviews with various athletes as well as participant observation.KEYWORDS: Masculinitybodybuildinggender socializiationbody image Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. During the research we found out that the Persian pehlawaniand the culture around traditional gym or a zoorkhaneh has been declared part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage.2. There are several more sources to this tradition such as the Mongolian Bokh and the Burmese Naban.3. Most of this information comes from the website of the PBBF (https://nocpakistan.org/sportsfederationsnew.php?sptid=5)4. Discipline for Foucault was not something that is imposed externally but rather different disciplines require a particular orientation of bodies in space and time. Both these sports require dietary discipline, a discipline when it comes to exercise and working out, and finally about self-presentation (Foucault, Citation1975).5. We never really liked the term because it assumes that there is an erotic (obviously heterosexual) and there is a homoerotic which needs qualifiers. However, it is used here in the sense to stress the male nature of the act.6. Arxer however is cautious of these bonds considering them an appropriation of alternative masculinities to create a hybrid hegemonic masculinity.7. This should not mean that biology is natural. According to Butler, gender is the way through which a ‘natural’, ‘sexed’ body is produced.8. It is for this reason that Frembgen calls the professional masseur (malshi) a marginalized and denigrated figure9. The male physique perhaps does not need queering as it has a long and storied history all the way from Tom of Finland to the BDSM-based aesthetic of nightclubs in the 80s (notably emulated by Freddie Mercury) but to the best of my knowledge nothing of this kind has been attempted in our cultural contexts. The only instance that comes to mind is the artistic ‘Mussulman Musclemen’ series.10. Various bodybuilding competiti","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136236226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knitting the in_visible: data-driven craftivism as feminist resistance","authors":"Abigail Moreshead, Anastasia Salter","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2258068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2258068","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTFeminist scholars are drawing attention to how conventional forms of data representation fail to make visible the experiences of women and marginalized communities. While the problem of reinscribing the in_visibility of already under-visualized communities (and crises) is being acknowledged from a data science perspective, little attention is being paid to how craft redresses these issues of visibility. ‘Craftivism’, or the move towards activist craft, resists both the in_visibility of the form and of the labour that produces it. This essay examines two specific craftivism projects driven by data: Stitching the Curve, a year-long stitched pandemic data project, and the Tempestry Project, which represents climate change data through knitting. Drawing on Andre Brock’s critical technocultural discourse analysis as a methodology to understand how these craftivist data visualizations circulate on social media, we argue that in their form and their content, craftivist data visualizations redress what Perez terms the ‘gender data gap’ through embracing a feminist ethos. These projects offer an essential space for understanding craft’s potential for resistance, modelling the inherent subversion of employing the ‘feminine’ textile as a site for feminist visualization and meaning-making, while also subject to the same challenges as craft itself – dismissal, marginalization and in_visibility.KEYWORDS: Craftivismdatavisualizationknittingfeminism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAbigail MoresheadAbigail Moreshead has a PhD in Texts & Technology from the University of Central Florida and is currently a visiting lecturer of English at UCF. Her research exists at the intersection of book studies and feminist media studies with a focus on gendered labor in textual production and knowledge creation. Her work has been published in Nineteenth Century Gender Studies and Feminist Media Studies.Anastasia SalterAnastasia Salter is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida, and author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic: Pivoting to Games-Based Learning (with Emily Johnson, Routledge 2022) and Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives (with Stuart Moulthrop, Amherst College 2021). They serve as Vice President of the Electronic Literature Organization.","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Different ways of taking care of oneself. How Argentinean gay men negotiate COVID-19 protocols for hooking-up","authors":"Maximiliano Marentes, Mariana Palumbo, Adriel Maroni","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2258073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2258073","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSince the beginning of pandemics, Argentinean gay men continued to have sexual experiences. However, when doing so, they did not just break the lockdown, but renegotiate care practices. That negotiation was part and parcel of engaging in an ephemeral network of mutual assistance. This paper aims to analyse the heterogeneous ways of caring among gay men who looked for other men to have sexual intercourse during the Pandemic lockdown. Based on 11 in-depth interviews with Argentinean gay men – aged from 24 to 45—, we explore how these men renegotiated COVID-19 care measurements when hooking up during pandemic times. Instead of portraying them as careless, we describe different ways in which they renegotiated caring. Considering those arrangements as tactics and micro resistances opposed to the disciplinary official discourse, we analyse actual practices of care that engaged in an ephemeral network of mutual assistance. The paper is organised into four sections. The first section briefly outlines official sanitary measurements in Argentina, characterised by an early lockdown that lasted several months. The second section describes the qualitative methodological approach of the research. The third section lists the theoretical discussions about virtual dating, hooking up and care practices. The fourth section settles the analysis of the ways these gay men developed their tactics becoming “responsible in their own ways”.KEYWORDS: COVID-19hook-uperoticismgaycare Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The first version of this paper was presented at the 2022 SLAS conference.2. The native flirting figure of histeriqueo could be defined as the game of flirtation, where saying yes at the same time that is said no. In virtual platforms, it supposes the chance to extend the chatting period, delaying the in-person encounter that might never happen.3. Skex, also known as Skype sex, refers to the utilization of Skype calls for engaging in sexual activities.4. In Spanish, this feature is called ‘Mejores Amigos’ (best friends). Among gay men is used to share erotic content avoiding being banned.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMaximiliano MarentesMaximiliano Marentes, PhD, is an Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina (CONICET) and Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IDAES-UNSAM). His current research focuses on love relationships among gay men, gay-worlds during the 90’s in Argentina, work-family tensions among upper-middle class women, political participation during 80’s, LGBT families.Mariana PalumboMariana Palumbo, PhD, is an Assistant Researcher at the National Council on Scientific and Technical Research, based at the National University of San Martín, Argentina (CONICET). Her current research focuses on sexualities, genders, affectivities and violence.Adriel","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134911490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Men have to be competent in something, women need to show their bodies gender, digital youth cultures and popularity","authors":"Manolo Farci, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2241857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2241857","url":null,"abstract":"Social media represents a significant part of digital youth culture, providing young people with models, symbolic resources, and space for self-presentation and reputation management. This study explored how the ideal of entrepreneurialism, which marks the social media logic of attention and visibility, is appropriated by young people in ways that allow them to challenge or reaffirm traditional gender and sexual norms. This research was based on empirical material collected through online workshops involving 12 Italian schools (42 classes and about 900 students), in which we asked participants to join in an activity to create fictional accounts that could become popular with their peers. Our analysis shows that young people discursively construct gender and sexual norms, frequently reproducing dominant cultural discourses on gender and heteronormativity. Young people’s discourse focuses on the apparent feminization of the internet and a perception of social media platforms as belonging to the female sphere. The feminization of the internet leads to a discourse concerns men’s need to link technical competence, professionalism, and masculinity to reproduce the stereotypical portrayal of women as bearers of an innate sexual power that compensates for their perceived lack of digital skills.","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Masculinity on ice: masculinity, friendships, and sporting relationships in midlife and older adulthood","authors":"Kristi A. Allain","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2251903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2251903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48099300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feeling the weight of the water: young nonbinary individuals and their strategies for manoeuvring through a binary world","authors":"N. Perger","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2227115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2227115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43098389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inner and outer beauty: exploring female beauty in contemporary China","authors":"Hua Ma","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2022.2070463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2022.2070463","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on 20 semi-structured interviews, this qualitative study explores young Chinese women’s understandings of female beauty. It reveals that participants’ understandings of female beauty are not limited to outer beauty (waizaimei, 外在美), but rather foreground the importance of ‘inner beauty’ (neizaimei, 内在美). The data found that these concepts have a symbiotic relationship whereby each affects the other. According to the findings, the concepts of inner and outer beauty are not oppositional but are both important for participants to gain ‘empowerment’. Yet participants placed a higher value on inner beauty which was seen as enabling them to resist the pressures of outer beauty standards. The article argues, however, that discourses of inner beauty are not value free and are influenced by a variety of dominant discourses such as state interest and the beauty industry. In this regard, inner beauty needs interrogation and cannot simply be perceived as a tool for women’s empowerment. The discussion sheds light on the young Chinese women’s understanding of beauty in relation to gender and feminism in a Chinese context. The article provides a culturally grounded approach to beauty in China and adds to feminist understandings about beauty.","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"562 - 574"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49014637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Career patterns and career satisfaction of women and men in Poland in years 1990-2010","authors":"E. Kasprzak","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2245337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2245337","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42473042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}