Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.2012090
A. Yong, Sabrina Germain
ABSTRACT This paper aims to show that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing barriers to healthcare in England for ethnic minority and migrant women. These barriers include those embedded within the institution, stemming from community perceptions and relating to socio-economic factors. Though barriers to accessing healthcare have existed long before the pandemic, more attention must be devoted now because of the inequalities that COVID-19 has laid bare in England for ethnic minority and migrant women. By adopting an intersectional lens, this paper uncovers what has previously been hidden by ‘intersectional invisibility’, now exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst the pandemic has seen an increase in focus on inequalities related to race, gender and immigration status, this paper adds to the literature by specifically considering the intersection of race and gender, and immigration status and gender, in the context of inequalities relating to healthcare. We argue that ethnic minority and migrant women experience inequalities in healthcare related to access uniquely because of their intersectional identities and the context of a public health crisis.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2022.2040336
Srijani Datta, S. Forester, Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Amber Lusvardi, L. Weldon
ABSTRACT (***Special Edition Gendered Pandemic) In India, domestic workers' movements advocated for their own and other workers’ rights both before and during the pandemic. Over the course of the pandemic, however, the political landscape and degree of disunity among workers changed. Despite dwindling resources and a hostile political environment that offered paltry prospects for success, domestic workers persisted in protesting for improved conditions. We argue that while domestic workers’ organising prior to the pandemic may be accounted for by standard theoretical approaches, the onset of the pandemic presents challenges to these same theoretical approaches. The domestic workers’ movement in India has transitioned from its pre-pandemic opportunity-based activism to what might be better characterised as threat-based collective action. Further, an intersectional analysis of these threats suggests that domestic worker protests are driven not only by strategic considerations about how to craft alliances in a shifting political field, but also by a need to assert an identity and to demand inclusion in the category ‘worker,’ from which domestic workers are often excluded by gender and caste bias.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2022.2041317
Emma Casey, Sarah Childs, Rupa Huq
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores society’s reliance on women both on the frontline and at home, while simultaneously exposing structural inequalities across every sphere, from health to the economy, security to social protection.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.2011365
Leah Hibbs
ABSTRACT This article explores research findings regarding the possibilities offered by remote attendance at council meetings as implemented during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and reflects upon how this may improve women local councillors’ experiences, as well as women’s political participation and the accessibility of Welsh local government going forward. Influenced by feminist institutionalist theory, this paper examines how councils’ formal organisational norms and practices pre-pandemic privileged presenteeism, and explores participants’ perceptions and experiences of the accessibility of local councils, especially for younger women with families and/or in other forms of employment. Presenting data from 19 semi-structured interviews with women local councillors in Wales (UK), both in-person and subsequently online during the pandemic, the paper discusses how remote attendance in local council meetings was considered an enabling shift in formal organisational practices, especially for rural councils. Despite some dissenting opinions and voiced dubiousness (mostly concerning future hybrid implementation), through easing the time costs of being a local councillor, particularly for women balancing a gendered ‘triple duty’ of the political, personal, and professional, remote meeting attendance is an organisational solution, albeit somewhat forced in implementation, which presents clear means of improving women’s political participation and representation in local government.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.2002668
Alice Menzel
ABSTRACT The Coronavirus pandemic raises significant concerns about pervasive social inequities and disparate gender relations, particularly between mothers/fathers. Indeed, the pandemic engendered a general retreat into traditional parenting roles across myriad, everyday, institutional, spaces, including workplaces, homes, and welfare/healthcare services. These effects have been especially marked for couples expecting a child. Visitor-restriction policies, implemented to curb viral-spread within healthcare settings, effectively ‘barred’ many expectant fathers in the UK (and elsewhere) from attending antenatal appointments, and even the birth of their child; milestone moments widely regarded as significant socio-cultural ‘rites-of-passage’ in fathers’ transition to parenthood. Many pregnant women had to face these moments alone, sparking campaigns including #ButNotMaternity. This paper critically examines how such institutional responses exhibit a complex ‘welfare trade-off’ effectively (re)positioning fathers as spectators, rather than participants, in pregnancy/parenthood and risk embodying a potential U-turn to recent decades’ emphasis on involved, equitable fatherhood. Drawing upon the accounts of expectant mothers/fathers in the UK reported in the popular press since March 2020 and the #ButNotMaternity campaign, it employs thematic social-media analysis to explore the emotional impacts of visitor-restrictions and the gendered, emotional governance of parenting amidst the pandemic through the exclusion of particular (fathers’) bodies within maternity care spaces.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.1993749
Dan Cassino, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
ABSTRACT Past work has shown that men’s gender identities often lead them to eschew household labour in an attempt to shore up threatened masculinity. As the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to both enormous financial disruption and high levels of stress among the population, we expect these patterns to be exacerbated. We focus on the helping children with virtual school activities, as it is a uniquely stressful form of household labour, and use two studies, using different techniques and datasets, to show that among men subjected to economic stress, higher levels of stress are associated with a lower likelihood of helping with virtual school activities. Ramifications of this for both individual stress levels and for societal outcomes are discussed, as are the disproportionate impact of these effects on members of racial and ethnic minority groups, who are already subject to high stress levels. Keywords: COVID; masculinity; household labour; childcare; stress
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Pub Date : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.1989315
Emma Casey, Rupa Huq
ABSTRACT Women’s lives have been affected exponentially by the COVID_19 pandemic. In this paper, we explore some of the ways in which women’s everyday experiences of paid and unpaid labour have exacerbated pre-existing gender inequalities. We examine the impact that the pandemic has had on women’s experiences within the domestic sphere, as hyper-normative and historical representations of women as the ‘natural’ primary carers for children and the home have resurfaced. For many, this has led to an almost unbearable pressure to provide full-time domestic care while simultaneously holding down paid work. Drawing on theoretical feminist debate, which has emphasised the importance of intersectional approaches to gender, the paper shows how the fusion of domestic worlds and public lives has brought domestic issues and challenges to the fore and has meant that women’s participation in paid work has been disproportionately affected by the pandemic in a number of ways. Women have an increased likelihood of, first, furlough and redundancy; second, of working in ‘high-risk’ jobs; third, of experiencing poverty; and fourth, of bearing the brunt of domestic labour and childcare intensified during the pandemic. Written by both an academic and practicing full-time politician, it offers a unique perspective on this subject.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.2018662
W. Yanko
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine politics and protest during the post-authoritarian Indonesian regime by analysing the song ‘Puritan (God Blessed Fascists)’ by Homicide (2002)., drawing from my fieldwork in Bandung and Jakarta to do so. By framing my analysis through Bräuchler’s (2019) notion of rappers as ‘protest brokers’, I identify three key sites of protest in Homicide’s song: morality, ideology, and policy. My research shows that Indonesian rappers in the early 2000s, especially those from Bandung, tried to fight the rise of conservatism and fascism by reclaiming their space through the so-called ‘Bandung underground scene’. In Bandung, rappers, their politics and their acts of protest were direct, despite the city and the region being home to the largest concentration of radical Islamic groups in Indonesia. By tapping into their ‘leftist’ ideologies, Homicide established a resistance network in which other rappers could participate and reclaimed their space in an increasingly politicised city.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.2018663
Otávio Daros
ABSTRACT Using a diverse set of research sources, this article critically examines the trajectory of singer Britney Spears over four decades, from her first steps towards fame to the unfolding of the #FreeBritney movement. In the first part, the study addresses her origins as a rural girl from a working-class family in Louisiana and how she was meticulously constructed like ‘Miss American Dream’. It then analyzes her unsuccessful attempt to break free from the team of agents, pushing her into a series of controversial episodes and her self-destruction – including her reputation as a ‘bad mother’ – overly covered by the media. And in the final part, it is discussed how she was pressured to reconstruct her image and regain her musical career, while falling victim to a 13-year conservatorship that is a unique case in the celebrity world. The argument that permeates the examination is that her trajectory that combines megastardom, overprotection, self-destruction and rebirth involves a dialectical conflict between exploitation and resistance, affirmation and denial of celebrity status.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.2024057
Alice Masterson
ABSTRACT David Bowie’s swansong album Blackstar occupies a unique position in its proximity to the artist’s death: just two days. It thus provides an opportunity to examine how music, nostalgia, and mortality interact. Combining study into the links between music and nostalgia and analysis of use of quotation, I propose a reading of a ‘dual effect’ in which the track ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’ explores themes of nostalgia and mortality whilst encouraging nostalgic feeling in its audiences. The article contributes to an understanding of how a musician’s death can alter audience interaction with their music, and how music itself can reflect mortality.
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