Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/08912432231175655
Andréa Becker
Shifting cultural norms transform the uses and meanings of medical practices, and, in turn, medical practices have the capacity to alter social relations. In this article, I use hysterectomy as a case for understanding how reproductive health practices are constrained by and contribute to notions of gender, race, and stratified reproduction. Hysterectomy is regularly performed yet understudied and has been transformed by both technological advances and shifting norms in gender and reproduction. I draw on 100 in-depth interviews with individuals who had, want, or are considering hysterectomy to treat chronic reproductive health conditions or as gender-affirming care for trans and gender-nonbinary (TGNB) individuals. These comparative groups shed insight across three gender groups (cis women, trans men, nonbinary) as well as across race. Findings show divergent patient–provider interactions ranging from physician support to provider coercion to gatekeeping. Similarly, the data reveal that hysterectomy evokes a wide range of reactions—from delight to neutrality to grief. These distinct reactions and interactions map on to gender, race, and ethnicity, revealing persistent reproductive stratification by social positionality. Bringing together feminist science and technology studies with intersectional theories of the body and reproductive justice, I show how stratified reproduction operates when gender identities vary and introduce the concept of opting into infertility.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1177/08912432231171172
Laurel Westbrook
It is well established that there are racial and gendered inequalities in murders of cisgender people. However, lack of data has hampered intersectional analyses of these factors for transgender people. Addressing that gap, this article presents findings from an original data set of murders of transgender people in the United States during the 30-year period from 1990 through 2019. Findings reveal that the gender and racial gaps in homicide of transgender people far exceed those of cisgender people. Transgender women are substantially more likely to be murdered than transgender men, and transgender women of color are murdered much more frequently than white transgender women. Attending to sexuality is also important because a substantial number of murders of transgender women occur in sexual interactions. However, transgender women of color are more likely to be killed while exchanging sex for money, whereas sex work circumstances are uncommon among white victims. I explain these patterns through what I term the matrix of violence, a structuring structure in which intersecting systems of stratification interact with necropolitical social institutions to facilitate certain types of violence while deterring others. In the conclusion, I use the findings to explore ways to reduce violence against transgender people.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1177/08912432231172992
Sonny Nordmarken
Previous studies have found that trans people claim to have consistent gender identities over their lifetimes. As a result, scholars know little about processes through which individuals come to identify differently from their gender assignment. In this article, I analyze how gender minorities in the United States come to identify with new labels, theorizing gender-identity formation as a social process. Despite pressure to present oneself as “trans enough” and despite many individuals’ claims to “always have been” the ways they are, most research participants’ stories illustrate a process of gender-identity change—what I term coming into identity. Coming into identity is the process whereby individuals come to understand themselves in new ways despite living in epistemological systems and constructed realities where such ways of understanding oneself are not widely acknowledged. I find that participants’ coming-into-identity experiences involved self-reflection in relation to (1) exposure to new gender conceptualizations and models, (2) gender experimentation, (3) difficult experiences, and/or (4) conversations with others. This research contributes to our understanding of gender-minority identity formation and the relationships among discourse, narrative, story, social interaction, identity, and agency. I argue that in accounting for coming into their identities, individuals exercise agency, mobilizing and building new narratives and discourses.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/08912432231171169
Allison E. Monterrosa
This study conceptualizes carceral violence to include the intimate sphere, highlighting a form of systemic racialized-gendered violence I term intimate carceral violence, which consists of two distinct violent effects of carcerality on relationships in Black communities: prisonized romance and coercive carceral care. I conducted qualitative interviews with 31 criminal-legal system–impacted Black women aged between 18 and 65 years in Southern California. Findings revealed that their romantic precarity included the challenge of finding partners due to the encroachment of the carceral state on Black communities. This study establishes how women engage in intimate carceral labor to mitigate their experiences of intimate carceral violence. I focus on the hidden work of managing an intimate partner’s emotions and behavior engendered by incarceration.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1177/08912432231171170
Marta Ascherio
Recent work on communities of color has elaborated on the concept of system avoidance, which is the avoidance of institutions that keep formal records, such as banks, hospitals, and law enforcement. In this paper, I provide a feminist intersectional analysis of system avoidance by examining whether and how kinship structures shape crime reporting to the police within the “master” categories of race, gender, and class. Using the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) 2002–2019, I show that among Latinx and white respondents, women are more likely than men to report personal experiences of violence to the police only if they have children living in the home. Among Black respondents, however, women are more likely than men to report personal experiences of violence to the police regardless of whether or not they have children. Household income and relationship to perpetrator further shape these associations, the most telling of which is that Latinas are no more likely than Latinos to report violence to the police when they know the offender. By examining crime reporting data through the lens of family structure, this study sheds light on a “paradox of protection,” the thin line in which women alternatively call the police to protect their families from violence, or refrain from calling the police to protect their families from criminalization.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432231171444
Pallavi Banerjee, Maria Cecilia Hwang
In this introduction to the Special Issue on Gender, Race and Violence, we go back to the roots of intersectionality and foreground an intersectional lens in our examination of violence against wom...
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1177/08912432231171171
J. Flores, Andrea Román Alfaro
In this article we focus on missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in “Canada.” We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad data sample of testimonies across “Canada,” this article contributes to understanding how police (in)actions make sense of, justify, and dismiss violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We draw from 48 in-depth semi-structured interviews with Indigenous peoples in Toronto and other “Canadian” cities and 219 testimonies from the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG). The analysis finds that police repeatedly use similar frames (topics), styles (linguistic and behavioral strategies), and storylines (narratives) to respond to violence against Indigenous peoples. While framing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as deviants helps police make sense of and explain violence against them, the use of verbal and behavioral strategies (indifference, callousness, and lack of information) and storylines (“they were [insert pathologizing frame]” and “there’s nothing we can do”) allows police to dismiss and justify acts of violence. We argue that the frames, styles, and storylines employed by police perpetuate violence. Police (in)actions are fundamental to achieving settler colonialism’s ideological and material dimensions.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/08912432231169707
Moya Bailey
suggest that young people seem less interested in “working collectively to dismantle hegemonic binaries” than they are in “practicing neoliberal individualized identities” that place “emphasis on personal choice” (p. 132). This observation left us wondering how reflexive and routine practices might differ across generations as well as how the ability (i.e., associated risk and protection) to dismantle hegemonic binaries may differ across gender and sexual identities. Overall, this book illuminates the ways reflexive and routine practices are interconnected: how reflexive can become routine; how routine practices may prompt reflexive engagements; how routine does not negate reflexivity; and how both can reinforce or resist dominant structures. The authors highlight how routine and reflexive practices do not exist in a social vacuum but, rather, are bound to social conditions, particularly relational and discursive structures. A Kaleidoscope of Identities demonstrates how reflexivity and routine serve the purpose of accountability—to dominant social structures, to community, and to one’s self. This book is suitable for researchers of all levels who are interested in gender and sexual identities. For the novice sociologist, the book follows a clear structure that begins each section with an overview outlining the objectives it sets to achieve. The authors use accessible language and operationalize terminology upon first use. Arguments build sequentially, which provides foundational learning for novice sociologists and a welcomed refresher for those more senior. And, importantly, the foundational theories upon which structured action theory is built highlight a clear gap in previous thinking and the importance of Messerschmidt and Bridges’ work in advancing our understanding of gender, sex, and sexual identities.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-10DOI: 10.1177/08912432231166579
R. Hoskin, Breanna O'Handley
a robust analysis of a gendered double standard in later chapters and in the book’s conclusion. Other chapters examine women’s attitudes toward alcohol and how those are transmitted within families and through media; how women encounter alcohol in social settings and the workplace; drinking and motherhood; and how the interview subjects have been affected by others’ drinking. Stewart draws on lifecourse and ecological theories to consider women’s drinking by age and cohort and to place women in familial and social contexts, with appropriate attention to issues of privilege and to differences among women. Stewart also notes that marijuana use emerged from the interviews as an important issue deserving attention. In On the Rocks, Stewart highlights women’s voices while also providing insightful context and analysis regarding women’s drinking and women’s lives. Her findings also reveal the limitations of current vocabulary for describing alcohol consumption. Stewart has demonstrated that Americans are deeply ambivalent about alcohol, and a gendered double standard persists. A cultural legacy dating back to the temperance movement of the nineteenth century makes it challenging to even talk about women’s drinking in a straightforward way. On the Rocks is an important contribution to a necessary and important conversation.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1177/08912432231165463
Michelle Mcclellan
Ultimately, Jackson’s book is a well-written analysis and deconstruction of gendered discourse and representation of Muslim women’s role in politically violent movements. While repetitive in some argumentative respects, Jackson offers critical nuances in deconstructing the representational complexities of the lives, motivations, and identities of these “jihadi brides.” For example, in chapters four and five, she offers an excellent discussion of the discursive transformation that occurs when these women migrate to IS territory, whereby they are “passive and reactive prior to their migration, and supernaturally altered and monsterized on arrival” (p. 79). Similarly, in chapter five, she offers another excellent nuance regarding the supposed threat that Muslim women pose due to their role as mothers and hence, as reproducers of culture and ideology within the ungovernable, un-regulated, and “un-surveillable private sphere” (p. 171). An expansion of these points would have been welcome, as would have an explicit comparison of the representational framings of specific British Muslim male migrants to IS territory in the first chapter. Regardless, this book is ideal for scholars in feminist, racialization, and terrorism studies who seek to complicate understandings of female participants of political violence.
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