Pub Date : 2025-06-11DOI: 10.1177/08912432251348658
Peter Bruno
{"title":"Book Review: Sex Work in Popular Culture , By Lauren Kirshner Sex Work in Popular Culture. By KirshnerLauren. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2024, 401 pp., $90 (cloth); $39.95 (paper); $39.95 (eBook).","authors":"Peter Bruno","doi":"10.1177/08912432251348658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251348658","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"602 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144269386","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 : 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1177/08912432251346862
Robin Lin Miller
{"title":"Book Review: Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana , By Ellie Gore Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana. By GoreEllie. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2024, 216 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).","authors":"Robin Lin Miller","doi":"10.1177/08912432251346862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251346862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260667","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 : 2025-06-08DOI: 10.1177/08912432251348660
Bernadette Barton
{"title":"Book Review: Outskirts: Queer Experiences on the Fringe , Edited by D’Lane Compton and Amy L. Stone Outskirts: Queer Experiences on the Fringe. Edited by ComptonD’LaneStoneAmy L.New York: NYU Press, 2024, 336 pp., $99.00; $35.00 (paper).","authors":"Bernadette Barton","doi":"10.1177/08912432251348660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251348660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144238098","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 : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1177/08912432251346865
Tristan Bridges
{"title":"Book Review: Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism , By Emily K. Carian Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism. By CarianEmily K.New York: New York University Press, 2024, 272 pp., $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper), $30.00 (ebook).","authors":"Tristan Bridges","doi":"10.1177/08912432251346865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251346865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237235","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 : 2025-05-26DOI: 10.1177/08912432251342260
Abigail Ocobock
Cognitive labor is an obdurate source of inequality between partners, and is usually considered so because the nature of the work makes it “invisible” to those involved. Yet given that talk of the “mental load” is now widespread and the pandemic amplified awareness of disparities, gender scholars have reason to question its “invisibility.” I ask: Are partners in heterosexual relationships aware of gendered inequalities in cognitive labor? How do partners legitimate inequalities in cognitive labor, given increased awareness? What prevents partners from achieving gendered change in cognitive labor? To answer these, I draw on interview data collected during the pandemic from 81 heterosexually partnered parents in the United States. I find that cognitive labor is far from invisible to women performing it and appears invisible to men only because they use resistance strategies to avoid it. I argue that the “invisibility” of cognitive labor stems from gendered power dynamics—both interpersonal and structural—not from the nature of the work process itself. I expand understanding of the power dynamics that sustain inequalities in this domain, pushing beyond typical explanations that center hidden power. Instead, I emphasize the role of patriarchal bargains in a seemingly intractable gender structure that gives men power.
{"title":"Cognitive Labor, Power, and Patriarchal Bargains: Not-so-Invisible Barriers to Gendered Change","authors":"Abigail Ocobock","doi":"10.1177/08912432251342260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251342260","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive labor is an obdurate source of inequality between partners, and is usually considered so because the nature of the work makes it “invisible” to those involved. Yet given that talk of the “mental load” is now widespread and the pandemic amplified awareness of disparities, gender scholars have reason to question its “invisibility.” I ask: Are partners in heterosexual relationships aware of gendered inequalities in cognitive labor? How do partners legitimate inequalities in cognitive labor, given increased awareness? What prevents partners from achieving gendered change in cognitive labor? To answer these, I draw on interview data collected during the pandemic from 81 heterosexually partnered parents in the United States. I find that cognitive labor is far from invisible to women performing it and appears invisible to men only because they use resistance strategies to avoid it. I argue that the “invisibility” of cognitive labor stems from gendered power dynamics—both interpersonal and structural—not from the nature of the work process itself. I expand understanding of the power dynamics that sustain inequalities in this domain, pushing beyond typical explanations that center hidden power. Instead, I emphasize the role of patriarchal bargains in a seemingly intractable gender structure that gives men power.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144145571","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 : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1177/08912432251343081
Norma Claire Moruzzi
{"title":"Book Review: Proper Women: Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran By Fae Chubin Proper Women: Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran. By ChubinFae. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024, 208 pp., $89.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).","authors":"Norma Claire Moruzzi","doi":"10.1177/08912432251343081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251343081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133755","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 : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1177/08912432251343091
Laura Mcleod
{"title":"Book Review: The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention by Marsha Henry The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention. By HenryMarsha. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024, 208 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $55.00 (ebook).","authors":"Laura Mcleod","doi":"10.1177/08912432251343091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251343091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144104621","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 : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1177/08912432251340021
Kris Rosentel
{"title":"Book Review: Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World By Asli Zengin Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World. By ZenginAsli. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024, 296 pp., $104.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).","authors":"Kris Rosentel","doi":"10.1177/08912432251340021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251340021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144113940","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 : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1177/08912432251343084
Fatma müge Göçek
{"title":"Book Review: Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey: Gender, State and Development By Kübra Zeynep Sarıaslan Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey: Gender, State and Development. By SarıaslanKübra Zeynep. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 210 pp., $115 (cloth); $39.95 (paper).","authors":"Fatma müge Göçek","doi":"10.1177/08912432251343084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251343084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"215 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144104531","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 : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1177/08912432251337416
Daniela R. Urbina, Daria Tisch
Although the ratio of women’s to men’s housework hours has declined, women still spend more time than men doing household tasks in most high-income contexts. This article examines one of the hypothesized mechanisms underlying the persistence of housework disparities—fairness perceptions—via a survey experiment in the United States. We ask: What factors contribute to fairness assessments of unequal divisions of housework in different-sex couples? Given increasing trends in gender-egalitarian attitudes, do people still think it is more fair for women to do a larger share of the housework? To address these questions, we relied on a multi-factorial vignette experiment on a nationally representative sample of 1,502 adults, in which respondents rated the fairness of the divisions of housework among hypothetical couples. Our results demonstrate that respondents engage in trade-off calculations that, to some extent, justify unequal divisions of housework. Spouses’ relative earnings and work time were assessed as contributions that justify doing fewer housework chores for both men and women. Contrary to our expectations, we find that people perceive arrangements where women perform a higher proportion of housework as less fair than scenarios where men do so. These results suggest a shift in public opinion regarding prescriptive gendered norms about housework divisions, contrasting with the decreasing but persistent gender gap in housework disadvantaging women.
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