Pub Date : 2025-01-04DOI: 10.1177/08912432241304768
Roberta S. Pamplona
Feminist debates on how the state incorporates and reshapes feminist categories of violence reveal unintended consequences, such as the depoliticization of these ideas. Through a case study of the Feminicídio Law in Brazil, I examine feminist writings on feminicídio, following its state incorporation as a criminal category, to address the killing of women based on gendered reasons. Drawing on materialist feminist discourse analysis, I challenge the notion that institutionalization necessarily leads to depoliticization. Instead, I demonstrate how feminists have reframed the legal framework of feminicídio to strategically confront state initiatives, such as firearm ownership projects, by employing an individual criminal category against the state. I theorize this feminist reframing as a form of praxis, illustrating how feminists can mobilize categories after institutionalization for new political purposes and contexts. This reframing involves ongoing formulations by diverse activists, extending the category’s meanings beyond the state’s definition and embracing intersectional perspectives. While the reframing of feminicídio gained traction to challenge right-wing governments in Brazil, some radical formulations were marginalized. This analysis elucidates the conditions under which feminists evoke and reframe institutionalized ideas and highlights the challenges activists face in mobilizing their ideas.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-26DOI: 10.1177/08912432241300619
Harriet Townsend
Historically, suicidal women and women in distress have been pathologized and trivialized. Despite high rates of suicidality among women, the role of gender and femininity continue to be overlooked in suicide research. I perform a qualitative “sociological autopsy” on 17 cases of young women who communicated intent before their deaths by suicide but were dismissed or ignored. I identify two tropes of suicidal femininity: “drama queens” and “attention seekers.” This paper highlights how gendered assumptions about, and interpretations of, women’s emotions and suicidality can be dangerous, even fatal.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1177/08912432241305617
Ruth Holliday
{"title":"Book Review: Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards By Alka Vaid Menon","authors":"Ruth Holliday","doi":"10.1177/08912432241305617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241305617","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1177/08912432241305060
Menaka Raguparan
The cultural economy of the contemporary Canadian sex industry, particularly the upscale sectors, requires workers to conform to white aesthetics and gestures in conscious attempts to generate desire among white consumers. This article, drawing on a qualitative study, posits Canadian sex workers of color as a critical point of inquiry to understand how they negotiate market expectations against the backdrop of popular representation of, for example, the “Jezebel,” “Sapphire,” the Dragon lady, and the Bollywood Queen. Sex workers of color in my sample are mostly immigrant women and Canadian women with full or partial ancestry in a foreign country. Drawing attention to research participants’ immaterial and intimate labor practices, which include emotional and aesthetic labor processes, I examine how these sex workers of color utilize diasporic capital to juxtapose dominant gender-, class-, and citizenship-based negative controlling images against sexual racism. Such labor practices involve negotiating their multiple, fluid, and overlapping identities as the workers unapologetically celebrate and revalorize their diasporic identities and cultures. Strategically mobilizing economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital facilitates the transformation of their body capital to establish a minority niche within the contemporary sex markets.
{"title":"Diasporic Capital: Canadian Sex Workers of Color Hacking Sexual Racism","authors":"Menaka Raguparan","doi":"10.1177/08912432241305060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241305060","url":null,"abstract":"The cultural economy of the contemporary Canadian sex industry, particularly the upscale sectors, requires workers to conform to white aesthetics and gestures in conscious attempts to generate desire among white consumers. This article, drawing on a qualitative study, posits Canadian sex workers of color as a critical point of inquiry to understand how they negotiate market expectations against the backdrop of popular representation of, for example, the “Jezebel,” “Sapphire,” the Dragon lady, and the Bollywood Queen. Sex workers of color in my sample are mostly immigrant women and Canadian women with full or partial ancestry in a foreign country. Drawing attention to research participants’ immaterial and intimate labor practices, which include emotional and aesthetic labor processes, I examine how these sex workers of color utilize diasporic capital to juxtapose dominant gender-, class-, and citizenship-based negative controlling images against sexual racism. Such labor practices involve negotiating their multiple, fluid, and overlapping identities as the workers unapologetically celebrate and revalorize their diasporic identities and cultures. Strategically mobilizing economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital facilitates the transformation of their body capital to establish a minority niche within the contemporary sex markets.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1177/08912432241305621
Chamara Jewel Kwakye
{"title":"Book Review: Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice By Ashleigh Greene Wade","authors":"Chamara Jewel Kwakye","doi":"10.1177/08912432241305621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241305621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142831928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1177/08912432241305633
Jaleah Rutledge
{"title":"Book Review: Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South By Laura McTighe and Women With A Vision","authors":"Jaleah Rutledge","doi":"10.1177/08912432241305633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241305633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"144 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142831926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1177/08912432241305616
Philip Q. Yang
{"title":"Book Review: The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and Perpetuates Inequality By Solangel Maldonado","authors":"Philip Q. Yang","doi":"10.1177/08912432241305616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241305616","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142831913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1177/08912432241305614
Maria Ximena Abello-Hurtado
{"title":"Book Review: Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer-Making in Brazil By Nessette Falu","authors":"Maria Ximena Abello-Hurtado","doi":"10.1177/08912432241305614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241305614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142825427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432241291059
Alford A. Young
{"title":"Book Review: Brotherhood University: Black Men’s Friendships and the Transition to Adulthood, By Brandon A. Jackson","authors":"Alford A. Young","doi":"10.1177/08912432241291059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241291059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"244 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142596605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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