Pub Date : 2021-04-27DOI: 10.1177/09593535211011319
L. Donnelly
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Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.1177/0959353521989526
S. Crann
Despite growing scholarly interest in the identities and experiences of girls, little attention has been paid to the identities and experiences of rural girls, and in particular how girls’ subjectivities are discursively constituted in rural spaces. Using interviews and focus group discussions with girls and young women who attended a girls’ empowerment program, this paper draws on feminist poststructuralism and positioning theory to examine how rural gendered subjectivities are constructed and negotiated by girls and young women within the social, spatial, and discursive boundaries of a rural Canadian community. I examine how the girls and young women positioned themselves and were positioned by others as “small town girl” and “country girl” subjects, and how rural positionality was accomplished through invoking real and imagined notions of more urban “others.” It is through these contrasts to urban subjecthood that the variability of rural positionality is made visible. The findings of this study complicate and extend the dominant narrative of the urban-rural binary, and gendered identities and performances within rural spaces, by demonstrating the plurality of feminine rural subjectivity. This study offers new applications for the role of girls’ empowerment programs in shaping girls’ identities, experiences, and perspectives.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-21DOI: 10.1177/0959353521997615
J. Mavuso
uting to ideal body image, although the data suggest well‐documented social-class differences in the incidence of being classified as “overweight”, with working‐class women and men more likely to fall into the “obese” category than those in the middle classes (Bojorquez & Unikel, 2012; Campos, 2004; Monaghan, 2005) and that attaining a fashionable body image requires economic power. Despite these shortcomings, this reader-friendly book can be used as an excellent reference to identify supporting tools and sources to develop analytical and methodological skills for reviewing and producing future research on body image for students in the related areas as well as those with an interest in promoting positive body image.
{"title":"Book Review: Reproductive losses: Challenges to LGBT family-making by Christa Craven","authors":"J. Mavuso","doi":"10.1177/0959353521997615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353521997615","url":null,"abstract":"uting to ideal body image, although the data suggest well‐documented social-class differences in the incidence of being classified as “overweight”, with working‐class women and men more likely to fall into the “obese” category than those in the middle classes (Bojorquez & Unikel, 2012; Campos, 2004; Monaghan, 2005) and that attaining a fashionable body image requires economic power. Despite these shortcomings, this reader-friendly book can be used as an excellent reference to identify supporting tools and sources to develop analytical and methodological skills for reviewing and producing future research on body image for students in the related areas as well as those with an interest in promoting positive body image.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"608 - 613"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72903268","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 : 2021-03-12DOI: 10.1177/0959353521999496
Asieh Yousefnajad Shomali
analysis possible. They particularly valued accounts that captured both the everyday and political efforts that go into making kinship queer. This edited book would have provided the kind of engagement that not only would they have enjoyed, but also learned a lot from. It is full of fleshy and complex narratives of queer family-making, highlighting both the trials and the tribulations, as well as the contradictions that are frequently inherent to seeking belonging. It is a book that asks the reader to remember that the political work of queering kinship is in paying attention to the small details of our lives that colour the fabric of society. In conclusion, we’d like to draw the readers to what the editors write in their introduction: “It is right that we think deeply on this matter, approach it from many perspectives, for what is at stake is significant. The issue goes to the heart of our humanness, our ability to live and love freely, and fundamentally, to belong.” For readers of Feminism & Psychology, this book then is an opportunity to learn from and teach our students about ways of solidarity building with/in queer communities that will allow for more diverse ways of making family and belonging – an always already deeply critical feminist project.
{"title":"Book Review: Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women, and children, 3rd Edition by Sarah Grogan","authors":"Asieh Yousefnajad Shomali","doi":"10.1177/0959353521999496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353521999496","url":null,"abstract":"analysis possible. They particularly valued accounts that captured both the everyday and political efforts that go into making kinship queer. This edited book would have provided the kind of engagement that not only would they have enjoyed, but also learned a lot from. It is full of fleshy and complex narratives of queer family-making, highlighting both the trials and the tribulations, as well as the contradictions that are frequently inherent to seeking belonging. It is a book that asks the reader to remember that the political work of queering kinship is in paying attention to the small details of our lives that colour the fabric of society. In conclusion, we’d like to draw the readers to what the editors write in their introduction: “It is right that we think deeply on this matter, approach it from many perspectives, for what is at stake is significant. The issue goes to the heart of our humanness, our ability to live and love freely, and fundamentally, to belong.” For readers of Feminism & Psychology, this book then is an opportunity to learn from and teach our students about ways of solidarity building with/in queer communities that will allow for more diverse ways of making family and belonging – an always already deeply critical feminist project.","PeriodicalId":47643,"journal":{"name":"Feminism & Psychology","volume":"90 1","pages":"605 - 608"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79402664","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 : 2021-03-02DOI: 10.1177/09593535221083846
A. Hawkey, K. Chalmers, Sowbhagya Micheal, H. Diezel, M. Armour
Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is a term that encompasses a range of conditions, including endometriosis, vulvodynia, painful bladder syndrome and adenomyosis. Given the impact on penetrative sex, fertility and potentially motherhood, CPP may also impact on women's identities as a wife or partner, a mother, and a woman. The aim of this study was to explore similarities and differences in experiences of women with endometriosis and non-endometriosis related CPP. A total of 17 participants aged between 21 and 48 years old participated in three focus groups. Using reflexive thematic analysis three main themes were found: the struggling woman, the unheard woman and the self-silenced woman. Women, regardless of the cause of their CPP, reported significant impacts on their intimate relationships, fertility, and parenting but those with non-endometriosis CPP often reported greater trouble communicating about pelvic pain in the workplace due to the “taboo” nature of discussing their vulval pain. Many participants described how a societal normalisation of pelvic pain resulted in women silencing their experiences, rendering their pain invisible. While women wanted to resist such silencing through information and support seeking, women with non-endometriosis CPP described fewer avenues to accessing credible informational resources or networks for support.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-02DOI: 10.1177/0959353520979499
Jack B. Joyce, Bogdana Humă, Hanna-leena Ristimäki, Fabio Ferraz de Almeida, A. Doehring
In everyday interaction, subtle manifestations of sexism often pass unacknowledged and become internalised and thus perceived as “natural” conduct. The introduction of new vocabularies for referring to previously unnamed sexist conduct would presumably enable individuals to start problematising hitherto unchallengeable sexism. In this paper, we investigate whether and how these vocabularies empower people to speak out against sexism. We focus on the use of the term “mansplaining” which, although coined over 10 years ago, remains controversial and contested. Using Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis, this paper excavates the interactional methods individuals use to formulate, in vivo, some prior spate of talk as mansplaining. In doing so, speakers necessarily reformulate a co-participant’s social action to highlight its sexist nature. Accusations of mansplaining are accomplished by invoking gender (and other) categories and their associated rights to knowledge. In reconstructing another’s conduct as mansplaining, speakers display their understanding of what mansplaining is (and could be) for the purpose at hand. Thus, the paper contributes to the well-established body of interactional research on manifestations of sexism by documenting how the normativity of epistemic rights is mobilised as a resource for bringing off accusations of mansplaining.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0959353520964672
R. Graham, Victoria Clarke
The “strong Black woman” (SBW) is a Western cultural stereotype that depicts African-heritage women as strong, self-reliant, independent, yet nurturing and self-sacrificing. US research indicates that this stereotype negatively impacts the emotional wellbeing of African-heritage women, while also allowing them to survive in a racist society. UK research has documented the significance of this stereotype in relation to African Caribbean women’s experience of depression around the time of childbirth and “attachment separation and loss”. However, research is yet to explore how UK African Caribbean women make sense of and negotiate the SBW stereotype in relation to their emotional wellbeing more broadly. Using five focus groups, with a total of 18 women, this research explored how these women experienced and managed emotional distress in relation to the SBW stereotype. The importance of “being strong” consistently underpinned the participants’ narratives. However, this requirement for strength often negatively impacted their ability to cope effectively with their distress, leading them to manage it in ways that did little to alleviate it and sometimes increased it. This study offers important implications for understanding the experiences of emotional distress for UK African Caribbean women.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0959353521989535
Maree Burns
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