Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1177/08912432241280251
Katie L. Acosta
This article is an expansion of the Feminist Lecture that I gave at the Sociologists for Women in Society Meetings in April 2021. I map my journey toward conocimiento, highlighting the centrality of my volunteer work with asylum seekers, traveling to their sponsors after being released from ICE detention, for the development of my identity as a scholar activist. I rely on two theories, intersectionality and spiritual activism—both developed by women of color scholars to guide our efforts toward social change—to illustrate how scholars can reconcile their roles as community activists with their roles as scholars in academia. I bring intersectionality and spiritual activism together, as distinct (albeit complementary) resistant knowledge projects that, in tandem, support my critique of sociology’s competing commitments to objective empirical research and social justice. I chronicle how strengthening my conocimiento has served as a tool in my efforts to transgress the discipline and ultimately how it helped me find a more authentic existence within the academy.
这篇文章是我在 2021 年 4 月举行的 "女性社会学家会议"（Sociologists for Women in Society Meetings）上发表的女性主义演讲的扩展。我描绘了自己的认知之旅，强调了我为寻求庇护者提供志愿服务、在从移民及海关执法局（ICE）拘留所获释后前往他们的担保人处，对于我发展学者活动家身份的核心作用。我依靠交叉性和精神行动主义这两个理论--这两个理论都是由有色人种女性学者提出的，用以指导我们为社会变革所做的努力--来说明学者如何协调她们作为社区活动家的角色和作为学术界学者的角色。我将交叉性和精神行动主义结合在一起，作为不同的（尽管互补的）抵抗性知识项目，共同支持我对社会学在客观实证研究和社会正义方面相互竞争的承诺的批判。我记述了在我努力超越学科的过程中，如何将加强我的知识体系作为一种工具，并最终如何帮助我在学术界找到更真实的存在。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1177/08912432241277218
Amy L. Stone, Elizabeth Nimmons, Robert Salcido
This study extends the literature on the impact of the family of origin on gender identity by theorizing about refusing gender. We define refusing gender as the intimate refusal of gender identity by family members that is perceived as intentional and deliberate by transgender and nonbinary people in the United States. In this article, we demonstrate how refusing gender is intimate, perceived as intentional, embedded within existing family instabilities, and disruptive of family relationships. This study is based on interviews from a racially diverse group of 25 transgender and nonbinary adults in Texas, half of whom report high rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Findings contribute to gender theory by revealing the importance of the family in recognizing gender identity. This research makes novel connections between existing family instability, including histories of abuse, and gender refusal. We embed gender recognition within persistent family dynamics, including long-standing family instabilities and family violence, arguing that these family dynamics persist in the lives of adult children. Overall, these findings demonstrate how cisnormativity is reproduced in family life, filling significant gaps in theorizing about transgender and nonbinary family life.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1177/08912432241277814
Eli Melby
There is little scholarship on how gender impacts the construction of leadership in supposedly leaderless, horizontal social movements. In this study, I expand the concept of leading tasks, to get at the ways in which gender intersects with the critical organizing work of maintaining horizontal movements. Drawing on comparative data from 7 months of fieldwork conducted with two grassroots groups in the French Yellow Vest movement, I argue that horizontal organizing in the Yellow Vests (YVM) functions as a gendered structure which opens possibilities for women to take on important leading tasks: caring management, attentive listening, and superintendence. These analytically constructed, gendered leading tasks point to a tension inherent in horizontality: It creates leeway for women’s participation, while also functioning as a smokescreen for a process where group members reproduce traditional gendered expectations of women to do a “third shift” in organizing, characterized by nurturing and caring for participants and activist spaces. The study documents how women can be disadvantaged by this mode of organization. Thus, the concept of gendered leading tasks contributes to investigating how leadership is a gendered construct shaped by those who enact it, and the social structure that surrounds it.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1177/08912432241265356
Cara Rock-Singer
{"title":"Book Review: The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land, By Lea Taragin-Zeller","authors":"Cara Rock-Singer","doi":"10.1177/08912432241265356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241265356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123675","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 : 2024-08-31DOI: 10.1177/08912432241274313
Victoria Silverwood
{"title":"Book Review: Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, & Violence against Women By Walter S. Dekeseredy, Stu Cowan, and Martin D. Schwartz","authors":"Victoria Silverwood","doi":"10.1177/08912432241274313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241274313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100837","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 : 2024-08-17DOI: 10.1177/08912432241268416
Stephanie Seidel Holmsten
{"title":"Book Review: The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump By Regina M. Matheson and William W. Parsons","authors":"Stephanie Seidel Holmsten","doi":"10.1177/08912432241268416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241268416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141998700","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 : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/08912432241268591
Amy L. Stone
{"title":"Book Review: Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places By Greggor Mattson and Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution By Amin Ghaziani","authors":"Amy L. Stone","doi":"10.1177/08912432241268591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241268591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141974287","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 : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/08912432241271363
Laura Krull
{"title":"Book Review: Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do Gender and Practice Power By Lisa Weaver Swartz","authors":"Laura Krull","doi":"10.1177/08912432241271363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241271363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141974285","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 : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/08912432241268588
Melanie Z. Plasencia
{"title":"Book Review: Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools, By Michael V. Singh","authors":"Melanie Z. Plasencia","doi":"10.1177/08912432241268588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241268588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141974282","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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