Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.1177/09593535211030748
T. Samardžić, Kendall Soucie, Kristin Schramer, Rachel Katzman
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects 8 to 13% of reproductive-aged women, is a highly gendered disorder whose symptoms disrupt Western conceptions of femininity. This may be especially debilitating for young women, who are targeted by societal discourses governing how they “should” be. We interviewed 10 young Canadian women, aged 18 to 22, about how PCOS has influenced and/or conflated their conceptions of identity and (ab)normality within the current socio-cultural context. Using reflexive thematic analysis through a critical feminist lens, we present three themes: justifying abnormality, pathologizing the abnormal, and fear of failure in pregnancy. Young women described feeling “weird” and “not normal” as a result of their symptoms and expressed worries about their ability to adhere to gendered expectations. We argue that the blanketing of these desirable states as “normal” has pervasive implications for women’s lives and leaves them feeling defective and/or inadequate, which was further reinforced by implicit, gender-based power dynamics in medical institutions when women sought care. We suggest the need for engagement with discomfort and leveraging PCOS as a unique entryway into an analysis of intersectional issues to capture complexities in lived experience.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.1177/09593535211033731
C. Carter
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Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.1177/09593535211030756
Octavia Calder-Dawe, M. Wetherell, M. Martinussen, A. Tant
From policy to personal practice, injunctions to harness the positive effects of positive affects are pulsing through global emotion regimes. Scholarship tracing this phenomenon links the push for positivity – and other seemingly “entrepreneurial” affects – to neoliberal cultural formations. Within and beyond psychology, feminist analyses are highlighting the gendered address of these formations and their imbrication with contemporary femininities. While this raises important questions about the gendered implications of positivity imperatives, an absence of fine-grained empirical work means little is known regarding how positivity discourse is taken up and lived out. We draw from interviews with 24 women facing distinctive emotional management demands (influencers, mothers and service workers) to investigate how positivity inflects everyday living. Our analysis presents two affective–discursive repertoires that participants drew on to explain positivity: positivity as attractive relationality and positivity as agentic cognitive style. We also identified four figures who are central to positivity talk, and three affective–discursive practices linked to positivity: keeping emotions in check, virtuously declining negativity and triumphant positivity. We conclude that, while offering new and appealing feeling positions, positivity discourse may also reaffirm profoundly unequal patterns of emotional practice and regulation.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.1177/09593535211033461
Kathryn Hopton, S. Langer
The online community of the manosphere uses social media channels such as Twitter to promote a misogynist agenda. Feminist research has identified two key elements to their activism online: the harassment of women and the development of a discourse that presents feminism as threatening to men. Our research examined Twitter content produced in pursuit of both objectives to understand how the manosphere constructs masculinity and femininity. Analysis of the content identified three discursive strategies that we term: co-opting discourses of oppression, naming power, and disavowal by disaggregation. They serve to cast men as victims, construct women as a monstrous other, and reinstate gendered power hierarchies through a constant invocation of the female body within discourses of rape. Though powerful, these strategies are riven with tensions and bind manosphere masculine identities to the very women they wish to eradicate. Manosphere activism has escaped the virtual and leaked into the material world. We conclude by considering the implications of this breach for those women targeted by the manosphere as well as for the broader witnessing community and suggest avenues for future research.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.1177/09593535211030749
Rocío Palomeque Recio
“Sugar dating” is the practice of establishing a “mutually beneficial relationship” between an older, affluent male – Sugar Daddy – and a younger, financially disempowered female – Sugar Baby. Although the figure of the “Sugar Daddy” has become commonplace in popular culture, this area of study remains largely unexplored, especially in the UK. Among the numerous websites that have mushroomed in the last decades in this country, Seeking.com stands out not only for providing an online meet-up place for Sugar Daddies and Babies, but also for serving as the matrix where the “sugar” discourse is constructed. The site functions as a discursive producer of the subject, inasmuch as Sugar Babies and Daddies are subjected and subjugated through a process of assujettissement by this kind of discursive power. Interviews conducted with four women who had recently acted as Sugar Babies showed how this discourse permeates the subjects and acts as a “technology of coercion” that works to perpetuate hegemonic notions of heterosexuality and undermines the participants” agency to refuse to engage in sexual intercourse, effectively “blurring the lines” of sexual consent.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1177/09593535211027457
C. Macleod, R. Capdevila, J. Marecek, Virginia Braun, N. Gavey, S. Wilkinson
Feminism & Psychology (F&P) was launched in 1991 with a sense of possibility, enthusiasm and excitement as well as a sense of urgent need – to critique and reconstruct mainstream psychology (theory, research methods, and clinical practice). Thirty years have now passed since the first issue was produced. Thirty volumes with three or four issues have been published each year, thanks to the efforts of many. On the occasion of F&P’s 30th anniversary, we, the present and past editors, reflect on successes, changes and challenges in relation to the journal. We celebrate the prestigious awards accruing to the journal, its editors, and authors, and the significant contributions the journal has made to critical feminist scholarship at the interface of feminisms and psychologies. We note some of the theoretical and methodological developments and social changes witnessed over the last three decades. We highlight challenges facing feminist researchers in academia as well as international feminist publishing. We conclude that the initial enthusiasm and excitement expressed by the then editorial collective was justified. But, there is still much work to be done.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.1177/09593535211026428
Samantha van Schalkwyk
{"title":"Book Review: Domestic violence and psychology: Critical perspectives on intimate partner violence and abuse by Paula Nicolson","authors":"Samantha van Schalkwyk","doi":"10.1177/09593535211026428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535211026428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"96 1","pages":"291 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85736864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1177/0959353520951016
Siobhán Healy-Cullen
operate in the lives of young people, and how they offer multiple ways to practise and experience one’s gender and sexuality. In Cover’s work we see how the proliferation of the new taxonomies has created a new matrix where the configurations for intimacy are beyond the dominant idea of the “relationship” or “casual sex” but offer myriad ways that include non-sexual or non-romantic intimacies, making way for the messiness of people’s desires. The new taxonomies are engaged in a political battle to undo the power of the norm, to eliminate its power to produce exclusions, and to make the lives of those whose gender and sexuality are not within a binary logic liveable. Cover makes an exciting contribution to our understanding of emerging gender and sexuality taxonomies and the relationship configurations they engender. While the new schema of gender and sexuality is not radical, it does provide a robust challenge to binaries and normativities that have come to shape gender and sexuality. Cover’s call beyond the new taxonomies is for more fluidity than classificatory taxonomy, a gender and sexuality ideology that is without boundaries, forever moving, operating from a logic of de-naturalizing categories of identities in order to do away with hierarchization. In this we inch closer to liveable lives, as the conditions for liveability wouldn’t be hinged on the proximity to normativity but would rather be forever moving, forever becoming.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1177/0959353520912981
C. Barned
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