Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/10608265221122799
Jonathan A Allan
This article studies pregnancy books that are written largely by men for men and that account for men's roles in pregnancy. Drawing on an analysis of the texts themselves, this study shows recurring themes across these books, which include: Expecting, too! which frames men as having a role in pregnancy beyond fertilization; fatherhood as a rite of passage; Unlike our dads, in which men are taught to be different from their fathers recognizing that expectations of fathers have changed; and, expectations of expectant fathers, namely, how men are to be caring partners. This article explores how these books frame masculinity and the roles men play in pregnancy. This article thus shows how these books contribute to a growing body of scholarship interested in "caring masculinities."
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108209
Navjotpal Kaur, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Kimberley A. Clow
Driven by overwhelming numerical dominance of women in the role of nurses, nursing profession over the last two centuries has been largely scripted with gendered characterizations. However, nuances that shape the language and wording choices that are evoked when describing the stereotypes targeting male nurses remain relatively unexplored. Our current research examined the way 117 female non-nursing and nursing students in Canada characterized male nurses using open-ended self-report measures and thematic qualitative analyses. We contribute to the literature on nursing, gender, and stereotypes by analyzing the personal attitudes and stereotypes held by young female students toward male nurses. Social role theory and the stereotype content model provided the theoretical underpinnings to explore and explain emergent stereotypes and stereotype content. Our findings suggest that students generate more communal, high-warmth characteristics for male nurses than agentic characteristics, suggesting possible paternalistic prejudice toward men in nursing.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108206
Jason Laker
When I took up my post as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Men’s Studies on January 1, 2021, I sought to implement the various ideas and ambitions that had led me to pursue the role. My own career in higher education began in 1992, which happened to be the same year this journal was founded by my predecessor, Dr. James Doyle. At that time, I had very limited knowledge about our interdisciplinary field, and relied on venues such as this one to become familiar with the vocabularies, theories, debates, questions, applications, and general contours of men’s and masculinities studies. The past 30 years have certainly been dynamic in this regard, as all these things have evolved into a robust constellation of theoretical and actionable knowledge, inquiry, and conversations. Likewise, as with other disciplines, there are professional values, ethical obligations, and normative conventions associated with our field that—while sometimes contested— provide for guidance on how we conduct our inquiry and applied work. When I teach or present about topics having to do with men and masculinities, I typically begin with what I call ethical housekeeping, taking a few moments to address some of the complexities and politically loaded elements associated with focusing time and attention on men and masculinities issues. It should be obvious—given that I am serving as JMS’ Editor-in-Chief—that I believe it is important to do so. Yet, I also recognize and choose to affirm through this practice that there is much unfinished business regarding the identities, statuses, and experiences of people who do not identify as men even as there remains such for those who do. I also believe that all our respective unfinished business items are inextricably linked, even as there is considerable variation in their forms, impacts, and implications depending on which issues, people, and contexts are involved. In any event, I have been thinking and engaging with
当我于2021年1月1日担任《男性研究杂志》(Journal of Men’s Studies)主编时，我试图实现促使我担任这一职务的各种想法和抱负。我自己在高等教育领域的职业生涯始于1992年，而我的前任詹姆斯·多伊尔博士恰好在同一年创办了这本杂志。当时，我对我们这个跨学科领域的知识非常有限，依靠这样的场所来熟悉男性和男性研究的词汇、理论、辩论、问题、应用和总体轮廓。在这方面，过去的30年无疑是充满活力的，因为所有这些事情都已经演变成一个强大的理论和可操作的知识、调查和对话的星座。同样，与其他学科一样，与我们的领域相关的专业价值观、道德义务和规范惯例(尽管有时存在争议)为我们如何开展调查和应用工作提供了指导。当我教授或演讲与男性和男子气概有关的话题时，我通常会从我所谓的道德管家开始，花点时间来解决一些复杂性和政治负载因素，这些因素与把时间和注意力集中在男性和男子气概问题上有关。很明显，鉴于我是JMS的主编，我认为这样做很重要。然而，我也认识到，并选择通过这个实践来肯定，关于那些不认同自己是男人的人的身份、地位和经历，还有很多未完成的事情，即使那些认同自己是男人的人仍然有这些事情。我也相信，所有我们各自未完成的项目都是密不可分的，即使它们的形式、影响和含义都有很大的不同，这取决于所涉及的问题、人物和背景。无论如何，我一直在思考和参与
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108203
G. González-López
The author incorporates her creative writing to share her untold experience of what Carole J. Sheffield would identify as sexual terrorism. She then engages in a candid dialogue with co-editor Patricia Richards, demonstrating the power of conversation as a feminist method. Inspired by their feminist imagination, they explore ways to construct meaning and produce knowledge beyond conventional, mainstream frameworks in sociology. In this intellectual praxis, they explore themes such as the aesthetics of resilience, poetry and creativity, non-mainstream epistemologies across disciplines (including but not limited to Anzaldúa’s theorizing on el corazón con razón and Fals Borda’s sentipensante sociology), authenticity and intellectual vulnerability.
作者结合她的创造性写作，分享了她对卡罗尔·j·谢菲尔德(Carole J. Sheffield)所说的性恐怖主义的不为人知的经历。然后，她与联合编辑帕特里夏·理查兹进行了坦诚的对话，展示了对话作为女权主义方法的力量。在女性主义想象力的启发下，她们探索超越社会学传统主流框架的意义建构和知识生产方式。在这种智力实践中，他们探索的主题包括弹性美学、诗歌和创造力、跨学科的非主流认识论(包括但不限于Anzaldúa对el corazón con razón的理论和Fals Borda的感性社会学)、真实性和智力脆弱性。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108201
Anima Adjepong
Qualitative methods training in sociology often warns of the dangers of sex in fieldwork and discounts the power of the erotic for knowledge production. This essay makes a case for a deeper engagement with the erotic in qualitative research. The erotic is an ineffable energy that connects us to one another on a sensual, spiritual, and political plane. Despite its scope, the erotic is typically reduced to sexual intimacy. This limitation maintains the idea that all erotic encounters during ethnographic research are sexual and potentially harmful, discounting the possibilities of pleasure and mutual exchange. Through a meditation on key eroticized moments from ethnographic research for various projects, the author examines how an embrace of erotic ethnography can produce more ethical, mindful, and human-centered approaches to doing qualitative research. A deeper engagement with the erotic creates greater opportunity for mutual exchange and reduces instances of exploitation and extraction during ethnographic research.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108207
Erika D. Grajeda
Following emerging sociological critiques of hegemonic femininities and calls for embodied research that troubles long standing assumptions about academia as a “safe haven,” this essay provides critical reflections on quotidian forms of gendered racism and vigilantism in the classroom. Specifically, I draw on undergraduate student engagement with “Cat Person,” a short story about a “bad date” that was published in the New Yorker in 2017 and is now considered essential reading for the #MeToo era. By bringing pop culture artifacts and autoethnographic reflections into conversation with what philosopher Barbara Applebaum refers to as the “pedagogical practice of comforting discomfort,” I examine forms of Karenism that emerge in higher education classrooms, particularly for women of color faculty. I argue that in an institutional context where class-privileged white women most readily access narratives about violability and fragility, they are better positioned to summon pedagogical forms of comforting and care.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108210
Rebecca Hanson, Patricia Richards
In this introduction to the journal's special issue on Gender, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge we engage with the collected articles to expand conversations on embodiment and research. The issue brings together articles that reflect on gender, race, and violence throughout academic spaces—from teaching to tenure, from field sites to job talks. They contribute to ongoing conversations that interrogate embodied experiences not only in the field but also within the university more generally, including but not limited to experiences of harassment. In short, they exemplify, complicate, and go beyond what we argued in our 2019 book: Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research. When read together, the pieces drive forward inseparable conversations on race, gender, and the academy; competency, risk, and pleasure in the field; and embodiment, the aesthetics of resilience, and resistance. Collectively, the articles underscore precisely why attending to embodiment—its pains, its pleasures, its histories and silences—in the field as well as institutional academic spaces is so crucial for the wellbeing of scholars and for the production of transformative knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108202
Nathalia P. Hernández Ochoa
This article is a poetic narrative in the spirit of resistance. It is based on an experience of sexual harassment I had at a dentist’s office in Antigua, Guatemala while conducting ethnographic research. I share an autoethnography, which is analyzed through feminist and historical lenses to highlight how the colonial patriarchal system and its coloniality of power continue to provide fertile ground for everyday forms of sexual harassment in Guatemala. In addition, I explore how power relations are malleable, dynamic, and even unpredictable depending on the bodies we inhabit as researchers. This is an invitation to look within and expand our discussions about the implications of experiencing sexual harassment while conducting research whether we are “in” or “out” of the field. Acknowledging these complexities is crucial to our searches for decolonial practices within the field of ethnography and within the process of academic knowledge production.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108205
Christin L. Munsch
Stereotypical portrayals of the academy depict a progressive and inclusive institution, particularly in the social sciences, disciplines that engage with social and political topics including inequality. This article, however, details the extent to which the formal structures and informal culture of academic social science continue to reflect men’s bodies and lived experiences. Specifically, I draw on autoethnographic observations and personal reflections to demonstrate the valorization of extreme bodily strength and stamina, principal components of contemporary masculinity seemingly at odds with the scholarly endeavors of the ivory tower. Additionally, I reflect on the harms proliferated in this environment including physical, emotional, and economic violence; trauma; and the persistence of macro-level patterns of inequality.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-10DOI: 10.1177/10608265221108204
B. A. Robinson
In this article, I show how my non-binary embodiment, along with regularly being misgendered, shapes the questions I ask, the research I conduct, the data I can gather, how I understand my research and data, and the knowledge I produce. Through this interrogation of my body in relation to research methods and epistemologies, I illuminate how trans and non-binary scholars disrupt the cisnormative assumptions of ethnographic fieldwork, of sociology, and of academia. These disruptions generate queer forms of knowledge production that center trans and non-binary experiences and perspectives and that move us toward thinking anew about researchers, embodiment, and methods, and their epistemological effects.
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