Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2193013
Faye Armstrong
to counteract the discrimination inflicted on students in white-taught private and public schools, was one of the greatest ‘threat[s] to America’s racial status quo’, noting how white Catholics attempted to stifle their Black counterparts’ work by protesting and closing down their schools (p. 68). Chapters Four through Six document Black American nuns’ relationship with the civil rights movement and the birth of Black Power, as well as an exodus from religious life partially caused by Black women’s exhaustion and frustration with the lack of support from the white-led American Church. These chapters showcase some of Williams’ strongest work in ‘recover[ing] the voices of a group of Black American churchwomen whose lives, labors, and struggles have been systematically ignored’ (p. xvii). In covering over a century and dozens of nuns’ stories, it would have been easy to pick a small number of the most influential to make ‘main characters’ of the book; there are certainly some standouts whom Williams follows closely. But her commitment to telling as many stories as possible presents the reader with an expansive sense of the diversity and fortitude of these women who were ‘unashamedly Black, authentically Catholic, and above all uncommonly faithful to their church’ even as they battled against the racism and sexism within it (p. 231). In the final chapter and conclusion, Williams examines the modern Black nun and her future – both in America and internationally. Williams is determined to make her narrative a hopeful one, and she succeeds, if not always in how her subjects’ stories end but in the triumph of having uncovered those stories at all. Subversive habits is an extraordinarily comprehensive history of Black Catholic female religious life in America. It testifies to Williams’ argument that the book is also a history of the American Catholic Church and of the country’s struggle for racial justice – the actions of Black sisters are central to either narrative. Identifying the book as ‘a work of historical recovery and correction’, Williams recovers a history that has been systematically erased and forgotten even as she corrects those misconceptions about Black nuns that do exist (p. 15). She confronts the white supremacist history of the Catholic Church head-on, both as an institution and of its individual members, demolishing the narrative that white nuns led racial justice efforts and demonstrating to her readership – even those like myself, white and largely ignorant of Catholic American history – the importance of recognizing the women whose achievements she has documented. Famous for speaking out in the 1965 protest marches in Selma, activist Sister Mary Antona Ebo marched once again for the cause of racial justice in 2014, reminding journalists that they were not there to ‘take a superficial picture . . . You are going to raise the rug up and look at what’s under the rug’ (p. 254). Williams, at least, has taken Ebo’s words to heart; this bo
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Pub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2193012
Sristi Mondal
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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to explore the experiences of different women in higher educational institutions in India. Through this piece the authors investigate how the prevalence of sexism is affecting women in academia in general and their everyday professional negotiations in particular. Furthermore, the article reviews the position of women in higher administrative responsibilities, and academic positions and also views the mundane everyday activities vis-a-vis their experiences of sexism in different universities across India. It is argued that sexism is pervasive in academic institutions in India, but often goes unnoticed and unaddressed in spite of various mechanisms and sensitization programs adopted by the Universities to address the prevailing issues of sexism across academic spaces. Gendered experiences of women have crippling and debilitating implications for women in general and more so it affects their career prospects in universities. in the process it perpetuates patriarchal power structures and hierarchies in the workplace
{"title":"Everyday sexism in higher education: narratives of women in Indian academia","authors":"Sarmistha Das, Obja Borah Hazarika, Sriparna Pathak","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2191313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2191313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to explore the experiences of different women in higher educational institutions in India. Through this piece the authors investigate how the prevalence of sexism is affecting women in academia in general and their everyday professional negotiations in particular. Furthermore, the article reviews the position of women in higher administrative responsibilities, and academic positions and also views the mundane everyday activities vis-a-vis their experiences of sexism in different universities across India. It is argued that sexism is pervasive in academic institutions in India, but often goes unnoticed and unaddressed in spite of various mechanisms and sensitization programs adopted by the Universities to address the prevailing issues of sexism across academic spaces. Gendered experiences of women have crippling and debilitating implications for women in general and more so it affects their career prospects in universities. in the process it perpetuates patriarchal power structures and hierarchies in the workplace","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"588 - 599"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43958050","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}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2186839
Suvi Pihkala, Tuija Huuki
ABSTRACT With this paper, we participate in the body of work seeking to develop ethically sustainable practices for addressing gender, sexuality and power in pre-teen peer cultures in an inclusive, non-normative and transformative manner. To do so, we draw on feminist new materialist and posthuman scholarship and a series of events from our school-based creative workshops with 10–12-year-old children. First, by analysing the gendered flows of forces of the workshop, we demonstrate how educational and research interventions on gender are entangled and fraught with heteronormative flows of force that circulate in peer cultures. Second, we argue that composing conditions for gender to be explored and addressed cannot be based on assumptions about how gender should matter when working with children but on how it does matter in the materially situated, affective and historically contingent practices of engagement. To achieve that aim, the paper proposes to ‘work in-tensionally’ to construct ‘ethically enabling conditions’ for school-based research and education on pre-teen gender and sexual cultures.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2191314
Amélie Keyser-Verreault
ABSTRACT Based upon Jeannine Gailey’s concept of ‘hyper(in)visibility’ of fat women (2014), this article has two goals: (a) to analyse Taiwanese self-identifying fat women and gender minorities’ management and negotiation of their (in)visibility; and (b) to examine the local appropriation of the important international feminist movement that is fat activism in a non-Euro-American context. Drawing upon in-depth conversations with Taiwanese women, fat activists, and gender minorities who self-identify as fat, the findings reveal that they embody a paradoxical hyper(in)visibility. Given their large body size, fat women and gender minorities are hypervisible and their bodies are dissected publicly and privately, while at the same time their corpulent bodies are marginalized and overlooked. Moreover, since the most important criterion determining whether a Taiwanese woman is considered beautiful is thinness, the beauty cult also means a fat-phobic culture within which participants suffer from a dehumanizing gaze. As a result, some fat women choose to enact docile and cute femininity by embodying the figure of a ‘marshmallow girl’, while activists subvert gender and body-size norms and fight for fat acceptance and body diversity. Some activists try to reverse and queer the fat-shaming and abject representational codes and embody fat euphoria momentums.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2172557
Luke Ward, Siân E. Lucas
{"title":"“You’re trying to put yourself in boxes, which doesn’t work”: Exploring non-binary youth’s gender identity development using feminist relational discourse analysis","authors":"Luke Ward, Siân E. Lucas","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2172557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2172557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42514246","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}
Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2186840
Ilaria Michelis
{"title":"Contesting gender: young women and feminist generations in gender-based violence services","authors":"Ilaria Michelis","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2186840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2186840","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48814543","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}
Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2186841
Esther McIntosh, Sharon Jagger
{"title":"The construction of safe space: empowerment and the perception of vulnerability at Anglican Foundation Universities in England","authors":"Esther McIntosh, Sharon Jagger","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2186841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2186841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46099656","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}
Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2181931
Amanda M. Stylianou
Clancy, Kate (2023) Period: the real story of menstruation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978 0 6911 9131 7: £ 22 (hardcover), 264 pp. Connell, Cati (2022) A few good gays: the gendered compromises behind military inclusion. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978 0 5203 8268 8: £ 96.89 (hardcover); ISBN 978 0 5203 8269 5: £ 24.00 (paperback), 312 pp. Denneny, Michael (2023) On Christopher Street: life, sex, and death after Stonewall. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978 0 226 82463 5, £ 80.00 (hardcover); ISBN 978
{"title":"Books Received, Journal of Gender Studies, 32, no. 3","authors":"Amanda M. Stylianou","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2181931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2181931","url":null,"abstract":"Clancy, Kate (2023) Period: the real story of menstruation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978 0 6911 9131 7: £ 22 (hardcover), 264 pp. Connell, Cati (2022) A few good gays: the gendered compromises behind military inclusion. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978 0 5203 8268 8: £ 96.89 (hardcover); ISBN 978 0 5203 8269 5: £ 24.00 (paperback), 312 pp. Denneny, Michael (2023) On Christopher Street: life, sex, and death after Stonewall. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978 0 226 82463 5, £ 80.00 (hardcover); ISBN 978","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"313 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44983170","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}
Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2181932
W. Favell
{"title":"The gendered politics of crises and de-democratisation: opposition to gender equality","authors":"W. Favell","doi":"10.1080/09589236.2023.2181932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2181932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"308 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47361412","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}
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