Pub Date : 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1177/08912432251364767
Shannon Scovel
{"title":"Book Review: Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport , By Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford Open Play: The Case for Feminist Sport. By BekkerShereeMumfordStephen. London. Reaktion Books Ltd, 2025, 206 pp., $22.50 (cloth; e-book).","authors":"Shannon Scovel","doi":"10.1177/08912432251364767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251364767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144778307","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 : 2025-07-30DOI: 10.1177/08912432251362192
Steven Roberts
{"title":"Book Review: On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins , By Jamie J. Fader On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins. By FaderJamie J.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2024, 222 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).","authors":"Steven Roberts","doi":"10.1177/08912432251362192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251362192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748246","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 : 2025-07-06DOI: 10.1177/08912432251355468
Janet Bennion
{"title":"Book Review: Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance By Melanie Heath Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance. By HeathMelanie. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023, 292 pp., $90.00 (hardcover); $28.00 (paper).","authors":"Janet Bennion","doi":"10.1177/08912432251355468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251355468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565824","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 : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1177/08912432251353810
David A. Rubin
{"title":"Book Review: In Defense of Sex: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire , By Christopher Breu In Defense of Sex: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire. By BreuChristopher. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025, 224 pp., $105.00 (hardcover); $30.00 (paper).","authors":"David A. Rubin","doi":"10.1177/08912432251353810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251353810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"199 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513230","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 : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1177/08912432251353767
Ellen Gruenbaum
{"title":"Book Review: Compromised Bodies: Cultural Imperialism, Agency, and the Ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Senegal , By Sarah O’Neill Compromised Bodies: Cultural Imperialism, Agency, and the Ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Senegal. By O’NeillSarah. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, 272 pp., $99.95 (cloth); $39.95 (paper); $39.95 (ebook).","authors":"Ellen Gruenbaum","doi":"10.1177/08912432251353767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251353767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513233","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 : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1177/08912432251353763
Kristen J. Sollée
{"title":"Book Review: The Witch Studies Reader , Edited by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward The Witch Studies Reader. Edited by ChaudhuriSomaWardJaneDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025, 520 pp., $29.95 (paper); $119.95 (cloth).","authors":"Kristen J. Sollée","doi":"10.1177/08912432251353763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251353763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"271 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513252","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 : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1177/08912432251344322
Mercedez Dunn-Gallier
Collegiate environments are racialized and classed locations accompanied by both cultural rules for sex and romance and institutional support that make idealized experiences viable. While historically Black colleges/universities (HBCUs) endorse a racialized contract for heterosexual monogamy that upholds broader institutional commitments to respectable middle-class Black gender, these environments often cannot reliably support the sexual arrangements they compel. Using interviews with 30 cisgender heterosexual Black undergraduate women at an HBCU, I identified three gender strategies they used to navigate their romantic and sexual lives within these conditions. This research contributes to scholarship on gender strategies as interactional processes that are informed by race and class. Moreover, I demonstrate how institutional contexts facilitate or inhibit idealized sexual experiences for the accomplishment of heteronormative gender. As cishet HBCU women attempted to resolve cultural and structural constraints on their heterosexual lives within and beyond their campus, the dilemmas they faced revealed how racial, class, and gender structures make negotiations of heterosexual interaction particularly perplexing for middle-class aspirant Black women and the limitations of respectable middle-class Black womanhood to mitigate social and sexual vulnerabilities.
{"title":"Respectability and Responsibility: HBCU Women’s Gender Strategies for Heterosexuality","authors":"Mercedez Dunn-Gallier","doi":"10.1177/08912432251344322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251344322","url":null,"abstract":"Collegiate environments are racialized and classed locations accompanied by both cultural rules for sex and romance and institutional support that make idealized experiences viable. While historically Black colleges/universities (HBCUs) endorse a racialized contract for heterosexual monogamy that upholds broader institutional commitments to respectable middle-class Black gender, these environments often cannot reliably support the sexual arrangements they compel. Using interviews with 30 cisgender heterosexual Black undergraduate women at an HBCU, I identified three gender strategies they used to navigate their romantic and sexual lives within these conditions. This research contributes to scholarship on gender strategies as interactional processes that are informed by race and class. Moreover, I demonstrate how institutional contexts facilitate or inhibit idealized sexual experiences for the accomplishment of heteronormative gender. As cishet HBCU women attempted to resolve cultural and structural constraints on their heterosexual lives within and beyond their campus, the dilemmas they faced revealed how racial, class, and gender structures make negotiations of heterosexual interaction particularly perplexing for middle-class aspirant Black women and the limitations of respectable middle-class Black womanhood to mitigate social and sexual vulnerabilities.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"656 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513376","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 : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1177/08912432251344267
Balsam Mustafa
The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court banned the term gender in February 2024, resulting in a crackdown on gender equity and significantly undermining the space for feminist activism and advocacy. This article examines the conditions leading to the 2023 anti-gender backlash in Iraq, the discursive strategies of the backlashers, and its broader implications for feminist activism. The backlash was rooted in ongoing sociopolitical repression following the 2019 Tishreen (October) protests and a climate of widespread disinformation. It gained traction by weaponizing concepts of gender and homophobia. Opponents framed the term gender as a Western plot aimed at undermining Islamic values and societal norms. They exploited the problematic relationship between gender and translation, using deliberate misinterpretations to construct a narrative that demonizes gender and those who support gendered understandings of social relationships. Analyzing the backlashers’ discourse and incorporating local feminist voices, this study highlights the backlash on gendered activism, academic inquiry, and women’s rights. The article concludes by discussing the intertwined nature of discursive and material violence, emphasizing the erosion of human rights in post-2003 Iraq and contributing to the broader literature on gendered activism in the Middle East and globally.
{"title":"Gender found Guilty: Anti-Gender Backlash and (Dis)Translation Politics in Iraq","authors":"Balsam Mustafa","doi":"10.1177/08912432251344267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251344267","url":null,"abstract":"The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court banned the term <jats:italic>gender</jats:italic> in February 2024, resulting in a crackdown on gender equity and significantly undermining the space for feminist activism and advocacy. This article examines the conditions leading to the 2023 anti-gender backlash in Iraq, the discursive strategies of the backlashers, and its broader implications for feminist activism. The backlash was rooted in ongoing sociopolitical repression following the 2019 Tishreen (October) protests and a climate of widespread disinformation. It gained traction by weaponizing concepts of gender and homophobia. Opponents framed the term <jats:italic>gender</jats:italic> as a Western plot aimed at undermining Islamic values and societal norms. They exploited the problematic relationship between gender and translation, using deliberate misinterpretations to construct a narrative that demonizes gender and those who support gendered understandings of social relationships. Analyzing the backlashers’ discourse and incorporating local feminist voices, this study highlights the backlash on gendered activism, academic inquiry, and women’s rights. The article concludes by discussing the intertwined nature of discursive and material violence, emphasizing the erosion of human rights in post-2003 Iraq and contributing to the broader literature on gendered activism in the Middle East and globally.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144479172","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 : 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1177/08912432251350067
Naomi Schoenbaum
{"title":"Book Review: Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It , By Emily Gold Waldman, Bridget J. Crawford, and Naomi R. Cahn Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It. By WaldmanEmily GoldCrawfordBridget J.CahnNaomi R.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024, 216 pp., $25.00 (cloth and e-book).","authors":"Naomi Schoenbaum","doi":"10.1177/08912432251350067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251350067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"269 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290169","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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