Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432251392906
Celina M. Doria
Despite recent Supreme Court rulings to decriminalize abortion at the federal level, abortion access in Mexico remains largely inaccessible. Within this restrictive abortion landscape, abortion activists—known as acompañantes—have developed innovative strategies to facilitate access to safe self-managed abortion. This article explores the ways in which reproductive citizenship in Mexico is both obstructed by state actors and reconfigured through the resistance of abortion activists. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with acompañantes, I demonstrate how abortion restrictions in Mexico constitute a form of gendered state violence, as well as how abortion activists resist this violence to facilitate abortion care beyond the state. In doing so, I argue that abortion activists engage in an insurgent reproductive citizenship for women and people with the capacity to become pregnant in Mexico by making accessible rights that have been denied by the state.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432251391789
Michaela Simmons
While scholars show that child protection is tied to the regulation of motherhood, we know little about how mothers of color were treated in early child welfare history. To address this gap, this article traces how racial logics of maternal unfitness emerged in foster care services and shaped parental rights. Using case files and archival documents from New York child welfare agencies, this study establishes the racial myth of the “uninterested mother,” describing a perceived crisis of child abandonment in foster care. This myth emerged as a growing psychologization of motherhood converged with the realities of urban poverty that drove mothers of color to foster their children. At a time when struggling parents willingly chose foster placement, I show that welfare authorities began to limit foster care use and enforce women’s obligation to care for their children. In the late 1950s, reformers passed the “permanent neglect” statute to discourage the abandonment of children in foster care, and in doing so, reframed this service as temporary, punitive, and involuntary. The “uninterested mother” is an important racial myth about gender dependency in child welfare that offers new insight into the system’s shift from a welfare service to an authoritative one.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432251389619
Neal King
{"title":"Book Review: After Work: Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia , By Shiori Shakuto After Work: Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia. By ShakutoShiori. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, 224 pp., $99.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper; e-book).","authors":"Neal King","doi":"10.1177/08912432251389619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251389619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"142 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472988","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 : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1177/08912432251387710
Vrinda Marwah
Why do workers appear to participate in their own exploitation? In this paper, I focus on the relationship that India’s women community health workers—called ASHAs (Accredited Social Health activists)—have with their nurse supervisors, also women. ASHAs represent India’s gendered development paradigm in a case of what scholars call the “feminization of responsibility.” Although they are a large and important workforce, the Indian state insists ASHAs are not workers but “paid volunteers.” Using 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including 80 interviews, I show that this makes ASHAs excessively reliant on their supervisors, creating what I call an “intimacy double bind”: a no-win dynamic in which ASHAs must perform intimacy with their supervisors even though it comes at material and emotional cost to them. Although all ASHAs are subject to it, I show how the intimacy double bind impacts different ASHAs differently. My findings demonstrate how insecure conditions of work—here a result of the partial commodification of women’s care work—can produce feudalistic relations between classes of workers.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1177/08912432251389021
Gina Marie Longo, Frankie Mastrangelo, Janus Chidester
Feminist research focuses on how cisgender men use extreme trolling to reinforce patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity. Less is known, however, about milder forms of trolling and how a range of users participate in this process. This paper analyzes user comments on news coverage of a high-profile case of a man who raped other men to examine how trollish behaviors contribute to the maintenance of hegemonic masculinity in digital spaces. We reconceptualize trolling as a continuum, emphasizing what we call mid-range trollish behavior: posts containing racist, homophobic, or aggressive content, authored across diverse online gender identities, that may be recognized as trolling but also invite interpersonal dialogue. We define online gender identities as the gender that users signal through symbolic cues—such as self-selected pronouns and avatar images—that convey how they wish to be perceived within a specific digital context. We find that mid-range trolling fosters discursive engagement, allowing users to identify perceived threats to the gender order and propose responses that reaffirm its legitimacy. These interactions legitimize hegemonic masculinity by naturalizing rape culture, marginalizing effeminacy, and invoking homophobia, especially when users perceive themselves as closer to the threat. These findings enhance our understanding of how dominant and subordinate groups’ trolling contribute to the circulation of hegemonic masculinity and the maintenance of patriarchy in digital spaces.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-28DOI: 10.1177/08912432251372512
Kate Ellis
{"title":"Book Review: Cripping Girlhood , By Anastasia Todd and Digital Girlhoods , By Katherine A. Phelps Cripping Girlhood. By ToddAnastasia. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2024, 230 pp., $80.00 (hardcover); $29.95 (paper).Digital Girlhoods. By PhelpsKatherine A.Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2025, 236 pp., $110.50 (hardcover); $32.95 (paper).","authors":"Kate Ellis","doi":"10.1177/08912432251372512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251372512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182998","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 : 2025-09-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432251380553
Kathleen E. Hull
{"title":"Book Review: Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships , By Abigail Ocobock Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships. By OcobockAbigail. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024, 288 pp., $115.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper).","authors":"Kathleen E. Hull","doi":"10.1177/08912432251380553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251380553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181188","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 : 2025-09-25DOI: 10.1177/08912432251378441
Cara Delay
{"title":"Book Review: After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Dobbs but not Abortion. By Davis S. Cohen and Carol Joffe After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Dobbs but not Abortion. By CohenDavis S.JoffeCarol. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2025, 205 pp., $29.95 (cloth).","authors":"Cara Delay","doi":"10.1177/08912432251378441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251378441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145141490","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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