Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/08912432231186763
S. Vogler
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Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432231184797
Neda Maghbouleh
{"title":"Book Review: This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States by Manijeh Moradian","authors":"Neda Maghbouleh","doi":"10.1177/08912432231184797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231184797","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49593258","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 : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432231184794
Momin Rahman
{"title":"Book Review: Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America Edited by Katrina Daly Thompson","authors":"Momin Rahman","doi":"10.1177/08912432231184794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231184794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43220417","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 : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432231182479
M. Shaw
Menstrual products have long shaped how women manage their menstruating bodies and how menstruation is socially constructed. Historically, these products have simultaneously promoted messages of shame—menstruation is dirty and requires concealment—and modernity or have linked their use to overcoming the constraints of menstruation to become modern and liberated. In this article, which analyzes the websites of companies that produce menstrual cups (an insertable, reusable menstrual technology), I identify a new use of this “modern” discourse that emphasizes the interrelationship between “modern women” and female empowerment. Notions of modernity are connected to depictions of menstrual cups as modern technologies that invoke modern ideologies and promote living a modern lifestyle—all conceptions of modernity that seek to empower women in their menstrual health and wider lives. Although these intertwined discourses of modernity and empowerment reflect those of feminist menstrual activists, menstrual stigmas often remain embedded within these messages. Analyzing the persistent intermixing of these contrasting discourses allows for expanding the theories of feminist technologies to consider how technologies may benefit, empower, and destabilize patriarchal systems in subtle and diverse ways.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1177/08912432231180152
K. Khanna, Tey Meadow
Is maleness as durable a social classification as femaleness? Theories of gender suggest that men’s dominance in the gender hierarchy affords them greater privileges than women, whereas theories of status predict that men would be subject to greater scrutiny precisely because they occupy a higher-status position. We interrogate the nature of gender categories themselves by examining which theories hold in the context of gender nonconformity. Using a nationally representative survey experiment, we examine how a child’s sex assigned at birth affects their likelihood of being reclassified as transgender for engaging in gender-nonconforming behavior. We find that people are more likely to reclassify boys exhibiting feminine behavior into an alternative identity category (transgender) than girls exhibiting analogous masculine behavior. Thus, membership in the “male” category is more fragile than in the “female” category. These findings suggest that gender nonconformity is itself a gendered process, and that the durability of membership in a social category depends on the status of that social identity. This study provides the first causal evidence of the effect of gender nonconformity on perceptions of both transgender and homosexual identity.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1177/08912432231181065
K. Ralston
{"title":"Book Review: Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault against Queer Men by Doug Meyer","authors":"K. Ralston","doi":"10.1177/08912432231181065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231181065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42608730","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 : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432231181063
Kevin Escudero
{"title":"Book Review: Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA by Nadia Y. Kim","authors":"Kevin Escudero","doi":"10.1177/08912432231181063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231181063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42681345","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 : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1177/08912432231176084
Marie-Fleur Philipp, Silke Büchau, Pia S. Schober, C. Spieß
In this study, we conceptualize and provide novel empirical evidence on norm-setting effects of family policies by investigating how priming with parental leave policy–related information may alter normative beliefs regarding the gender division of parental leave in Germany. We implemented a survey experiment in two waves of the representative German GESIS Panel in 2019 and 2020. Respondents received one of three short evidence-based information primers about (1) long-term income risks of maternal employment interruptions, (2) nonsignificant paternal wage penalties, or (3) increasing rates of paternal leave usage in Germany, or were allocated to the control group that received no further information before rating the division of parental leave in fictitious couples. We apply ordinary least squares regression models with lagged dependent variables to a sample of 5,362 vignette evaluations nested in 1,548 respondents. Remarkably, we find that the effects of all three priming conditions vary significantly depending on whether respondents are asked to judge situations for couples where women earn more or less than their partners. Our findings mostly point to stronger effects of priming with information on income risks compared with paternal leave usage trends and to more pronounced changes in normative beliefs among childless respondents.
{"title":"Parental Leave Policies, Usage Consequences, and Changing Normative Beliefs: Evidence From a Survey Experiment","authors":"Marie-Fleur Philipp, Silke Büchau, Pia S. Schober, C. Spieß","doi":"10.1177/08912432231176084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231176084","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we conceptualize and provide novel empirical evidence on norm-setting effects of family policies by investigating how priming with parental leave policy–related information may alter normative beliefs regarding the gender division of parental leave in Germany. We implemented a survey experiment in two waves of the representative German GESIS Panel in 2019 and 2020. Respondents received one of three short evidence-based information primers about (1) long-term income risks of maternal employment interruptions, (2) nonsignificant paternal wage penalties, or (3) increasing rates of paternal leave usage in Germany, or were allocated to the control group that received no further information before rating the division of parental leave in fictitious couples. We apply ordinary least squares regression models with lagged dependent variables to a sample of 5,362 vignette evaluations nested in 1,548 respondents. Remarkably, we find that the effects of all three priming conditions vary significantly depending on whether respondents are asked to judge situations for couples where women earn more or less than their partners. Our findings mostly point to stronger effects of priming with information on income risks compared with paternal leave usage trends and to more pronounced changes in normative beliefs among childless respondents.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48943833","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 : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1177/08912432231177260
Eman Abdelhadi
author is careful to note that they migrated with legal documents, making them unusually protected in Italy. Enríquez offers many causal explanations throughout the book to place the smaller events of her participants’ lives in a larger social context. However, she gives significant weight to the Nicaraguan revolution for mitigating structural violence and providing these women with “a new sense of possibilities for the future” (p. 204) that made migration one of the futures that became both thinkable and possible for these four women. The book likely has broad appeal for undergraduate courses. Many of us teach introductory courses to sociology in which we ask students to read selections from C. Wright Mills and engage with the concepts of personal issues of milieu, public issues of social structure, and the sociological imagination. In those courses, we often ask students to apply these concepts to their own lives and use them to think about their life chances given their larger historical and social contexts. The situated stories of Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela can help students cultivate a new lens for making sense of the world and spark their sociological imaginations.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1177/08912432231177253
Kaitlynn Mendes
{"title":"Book Review: Networked Feminism: How Digital Media Makers Transformed Gender Justice Movements by Rosemary Clark-Parsons","authors":"Kaitlynn Mendes","doi":"10.1177/08912432231177253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231177253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49658928","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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