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.
{"title":"Book Review: Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida","authors":"Moya Bailey","doi":"10.1177/08912432231169707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231169707","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45558959","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 : 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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Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1177/08912432231160127
Sadé L. Lindsay
{"title":"Book Review: Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers by Lynne Haney","authors":"Sadé L. Lindsay","doi":"10.1177/08912432231160127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231160127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43313760","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 : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1177/08912432231160133
Inaash Islam
{"title":"Book Review: The Monstrous and the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides by Leonie B. Jackson","authors":"Inaash Islam","doi":"10.1177/08912432231160133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231160133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49126371","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 : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1177/08912432231160124
Stefanie Mayer
{"title":"Book Review: Global Contestations of Gender Rights Edited by Alexandra Scheele, Julia Roth, and Heidemarie Winkel","authors":"Stefanie Mayer","doi":"10.1177/08912432231160124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231160124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48031796","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 : 2023-03-08DOI: 10.1177/08912432231160130
S. Thomas
{"title":"Book Review: The Benefits of Friends by Jana Mathews","authors":"S. Thomas","doi":"10.1177/08912432231160130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231160130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46702889","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/08912432231155913
M. Budig, V. Kraus, Asaf Levanon
Israeli society presents a unique context for studying motherhood’s impacts on employment and earnings: High fertility and marriage rates coincide with high rates of women’s education and employment. While past research finds low motherhood penalties in Israel, ethno-religious group differences in these penalties are unexplored. Ours is the first longitudinal study to examine simultaneously motherhood’s employment and wage penalties among Israeli ethno-religious groups. Using newly available panel data, we find that motherhood deters employment among Israeli-Palestinians more strongly than among Jews, and particularly among less-educated Israeli-Palestinians. Similarly, motherhood wage penalties and ethno-religious disparities are greatest among the least-educated women. For all groups, highly educated women incur smaller motherhood penalties in employment and earnings, and in some cases receive motherhood wage premiums. Public-sector employment, particularly for Muslims, is associated with higher postnatal employment, lower motherhood penalties, and motherhood premiums among the highly educated. The stronger enforcement of anti-discrimination and work–family policies in the public sector, along with its schoolteachers’ collective bargaining agreement that raises maternal earnings, may contribute to its more positive outcomes for Israeli-Palestinian mothers. Our findings suggest that increasing educational attainment and public-sector employment among Israeli-Palestinians may reduce ethno-religious inequality in motherhood’s impact on employment and earnings.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432231155914
K. Begall, Daniela Grunow, Sandra Buchler
In this paper, we use the “gender as a social structure” framework to assess macro-, interactional-, and micro-level mechanisms explaining the stalled revolution in gender ideologies. Using the European Values Study 2008 data and latent class analysis, we look at the spread of gender ideologies and examine their association with national levels of gendered ascription of work and care roles, work–family compatibility, social inequality and societal affluence, individual characteristics, and cross-level interactions with gender and education in 36 (post-)industrialized countries. By including a large number of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European countries, we provide a new and comprehensive picture of the gender ideology landscapes of Europe, reflected in two unidimensional classes—egalitarian and traditional—and four multidimensional classes, covering more than 60 percent of respondents—family oriented, choice egalitarian, intensive motherhood, and neotraditional. By modeling key features of macro-level variation, we show how the spread of gender ideologies is associated with distinct contextual conditions. We consolidate previous findings on multidimensional gender ideologies, which were based on fewer countries.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432231158089
Laura Harrison
{"title":"Book Review: Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics by Krystale E. Littlejohn","authors":"Laura Harrison","doi":"10.1177/08912432231158089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231158089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44343076","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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