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Feranaaz Farista and Ameeta Jaga, Ph.D. In our article for Gender & Society titled, Workplace Breastfeeding as Foodwork in Organizational Settings: Advancing Knowledge from Black, Low-Income Women in South Africa, we highlight the struggles and innovations in these mothers’ attempts to nourish their children and hold on to a job. We interviewed 33 black, low-income … Continue reading Breastfeeding as Foodwork: The Unseen Labour of Employed Black Low-income Mothers in South Africa →
Displaced Men’s Material and Affective Abandonment in Greece By Oska Paul and Meena Masood The concept of vulnerability has become increasingly integral to state and humanitarian legislation, policies, discourse, and practices in contexts of displacement. Asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants legally categorized as ‘vulnerable persons’ are ostensibly entitled to specialised and additional care. Yet in … Continue reading GENDERED VULNERABILITY IN NECROPOLITICAL BORDERING →
By Katie Mirance, Katelyn E. Foltz, Angela J. Hattery, Marissa Kiss, and Earl Smith As many as one in five women will be sexually assaulted while in college, and 26-36% will experience an act of intimate partner violence. For this reason, in the early 2000s advocates began exploring Title IX, the gender equity law in … Continue reading Is There a Better Way to Address Gender-Based Violence in SportsWorld? →
Jaclyn S. Wong and Allison Daminger Why are women in dual-career relationships more likely than their husbands to move for their spouse’s career? Why do women do more unpaid housework and childcare than their husbands, even when both partners are employed? Questions like these about persistent gender inequality in work and family are ultimately questions … Continue reading Hiding Gender Inequality Behind the Myth of Mutuality →
Amy L. Stone, PhD and Alexandra Gallin-Parisi, PhD The shelter-in-place period of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States was a peculiar time. As many people transitioned to staying home and Zooming in to work and school, this social isolation also created conditions for people to explore identities outside the gender binary. Alpha, a Black … Continue reading Thinking about the Gender Binary During Shelter-in-Place →
Joohyun Park In defining rape, there are two predominant legal frameworks across the globe: one based on coercion and the other on consent. The coercion-based model considers physical force, attack, and/or threat as necessary elements to determine the existence of the crime. Italy, France, and some US states such as Michigan follow this model. In … Continue reading Does a victim need an injury to hold offenders accountable? →
How Couples Think Baby Name Decisions Should Be Made . . . And What Actually Happens By Christina A. Sue, Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, and Adriana C Núñez “I guess her name is Cleopatra,” remarked actress Christina Ricci after her husband, Mark Hampton, announced the name of their daughter on Instagram when Christina was recovering from childbirth. … Continue reading “He Changed the Name!” →
Delegation of Financial Decision Making to Spouse in Old Age By Dr. Anup Basu You can find Professor Basu on Twitter/X @anupkbasu ! Image generated by AI Aging can bring about a decline in cognitive abilities, thereby affecting our financial decision-making capacity. Although in many married households, one spouse is primarily responsible for managing household … Continue reading LOOSENING THE GRIp →
NEW BLOG ALERT! | Hi G&S Followers, take a look at our new blog by Derek Seigel. See what they have to share about how stereotypes about trans women shape their access to parenting rights in contemporary times.
BLOG ALERT! | Have you seen our lates blog by @TsuiPamela? See what she has to say about normative expectations and stigmatized desires here
NEW BLOG | RISK, SOLIDARITY, AND EXCLUSION: WHAT HEREDITARY BREAST AND OVARIAN CANCER ONLINE COMMUNITIES CAN TEACH US ABOUT ACTIVISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE Through their study of individuals with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) mutations, Dr. Linda Blum discusses how online spaces can offer both promise and peril for feminism and for other social movements in a digital age.
NEW BLOG | HOW HAS THE GIG ECONOMY RE-CODED EMOTIONAL LABOR? Liu and Huang explain how women's emotional labor in Shanghai has not vanished with the rise of the platform-based gig economy, but has become automated, intensified, and weaponized.
Janus Chidester highlights how users across online gender identities reproduce hegemonic masculinity and patriarchy in digital spaces through subtle forms of trolling—and how these patterns can shape offline gender expectations.
NEW BLOG | RACIAL MYTHS OF MOTHERHOOD IN EARLY FOSTER CARE Drawing upon case files and archival documents from New York child welfare agencies between the 1940’s and 1960’s, Dr. Michaela Simmons traces how racial logics of maternal unfitness emerged in foster care services and shaped parental rights.
NEW BLOG | RESPECTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY: HBCU WOMEN'S GENDER STRATEGIES FOR HETEROSEXUALITY Dr. Mercedez Dunn-Gallier examines the contradictions and challenges of accomplishing Black respectable womanhood through collegiate sex and romance for cisgender heterosexual undergraduate women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
NEW BLOG | WHAT IF BEING TRANS IS ABOUT PURSUING GENDER EUPHORIA? Kai W. McKinney with Dr. David G. Ortiz discuss their journey toward reframing gender dysphoria as the pursuit of gender euphoria, and explain how the relationship between gender dysphoria and gender euphoria is mediated by what they call "lenses of impossibility."
NEW BLOG | THE HIDDEN COSTS OF MOTHERING AN INCARCERATED ADULT CHILD Raquel Delerme draws on in-depth interviews with mothers with incarcerated adult children, finding the cumulative impact of financialized policies and time-draining bureaucracy results in the extraction of precious time and money from working-class Black and Latine women on the outside.
Christina Bornatici and Isabelle Zinn investigate how Swiss couples divide paid and unpaid work in their lives, and what drives these decisions. Examining such dynamics, they argue, sheds light on both the persistence of inequalities and the forces driving social change.
Dr. Rui Jie Peng uncovers complex gendered and intergenerational power dynamics surrounding intensive childrearing in migrant households in China and illuminates the negotiations that occur when Qiang grandmothers assert their agency.
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