{"title":"#NotMyFandom: The gendered nature of a misogynistic backlash in science fiction fandom","authors":"Rebecca Wray","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.78","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132056594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceived stereotypes about nurses in terms of competence predict nurses’ wellbeing and intent to leave the profession: A cross-sectional study in German intensive home care nursing","authors":"Regina König","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.50","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated, firstly, whether societal warmth and competence stereotypes about nurses, as perceived by the nurses, are congruent with nurses’ self-image. Secondly, it tested whether perceived competence stereotypes are related to nurses’ wellbeing and their intent to leave their profession. A total of 51 female nurses working at least 32 hours per week in intensive home care nursing (IHCN) participated in a correlational online survey. The results indicate that nurses rate themselves more highly on both competence and warmth than they perceive society to rate them. Furthermore, perceived societal ratings of nurses’ competence were negatively related to the intent to leave the profession and to burnout symptoms. The results suggest that measures should be taken to reduce prevalent societal stereotypes about the alleged lack of nurses’ competence.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"56 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121007144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I have to be at home’: Place and gender among student-mothers in higher education","authors":"Thiago Bogossian","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.42","url":null,"abstract":"Mothers who study in higher education (HE) experience many roadblocks that typical traditional students do not. These challenges are most referred to in terms of a lack of time to dedicate to their responsibilities as students and carers. However, there is an overlooked relation between student-mothers’ identities and space, considering the classic dichotomy of private/home space and the public sphere that had prevented many women to study. Based on interviews (N=4) and one focus group (N=3) with student-mothers at a prestigious university in Scotland, this research examines their place in HE in the United Kingdom. Data analysis revealed that these students’ mobilities are constrained by their caring responsibilities but that they also challenge established gendered norms by building bridges between their homes and public spaces. Moreover, although all these students are marginalised due to their motherhood, other axes of power impact on their educational experiences. This paper provides an original contribution to discussing gendered spatial norms and accessibility of educational spaces using intersectional lens and moves the academic debate forward by exploring not only the spatial relations that constrain, but are also produced by, these mothers.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128331123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring RuPaul’s Drag Race as a platform for public debate: Conforming and resisting idealised notions of drag (commentary)","authors":"Luke Ward, C. Dann","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2020.3.1-2.82","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131498928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Jebsen, C. Abbott, R. Oliver, Erinma Ochu, I. Jayasinghe, C. Gauchotte-Lindsay
{"title":"A Review of Barriers Women Face in Research Funding Processes in the UK","authors":"J. Jebsen, C. Abbott, R. Oliver, Erinma Ochu, I. Jayasinghe, C. Gauchotte-Lindsay","doi":"10.31234/osf.io/27mdz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/27mdz","url":null,"abstract":"In the UK, women are underrepresented at the highest levels of academia in all subjects but Nursing, but particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) (Advance HE, 2018). Research, and the funding that enables research, is a critical point of career progression. Women apply less often and for lower amounts of funding, and are less successful than male colleagues (UK Research and Innovation, 2018). The common explanations given that women have to apply for more and more often do not sufficiently explain the gender disparities in research funding. This review critically evaluates some of the barriers and biases women face in the process of applying for research funding in the UK. Institutional barriers such as women carrying a heavier burden of teaching and academic citizenship, and lack of support, mentoring and visible role models impact on women’s success in securing research funding. Systematic barriers exist at many levels, particularly for parents and carers. These range from the impact of taking maternity leave, to grant deadlines falling during or shortly after school holidays and the requirement to travel for interviews. The focus on track record in grant review, biased language used in evaluation materials and unconscious biases on the part of reviewers further impact differentially on women. Lack of freedom to travel, and thus to network or attend conferences can result in exclusion from multi-national networks and the ability of parents to demonstrate an international profile. The policies and practices that impact on the ability of women to secure research funding must be reviewed and addressed with urgency for the benefit of the research community as a whole.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123928316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist qualitative methods and methodologies in psychology: A review and reflection","authors":"Victoria Clarke, Virginia Braun","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"How does the current state of the field of feminist qualitative psychological research reflect and enact the methodological characteristics and values of feminist research – principally, the values of reflexivity, methodological diversity and innovation, and the prioritisation of feminist political goals over procedural, epistemological and disciplinary orthodoxy? Using a review of the methods and methodologies used in qualitative research published in two key feminist psychology journals (Feminism & Psychology; Psychology of Women Quarterly) from 2005 to 2016 as our starting point, we reflect on practices, trends, and apparent norms in feminist qualitative researching. Despite methodological development, the absence of a fully realised feminist methodological vision raises important questions. We suggest a need to query and push back at canons or orthodoxies within the discipline, and advocate looking backward to go forwards: innovation does not have to be radical, and many of our methodological feminist foremothers have a lot to offer the present and the future of our discipline.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115656829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sexism of men’s body dissatisfaction accounts","authors":"G. Jankowski","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.38","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary I critically reflect on five discourses I have observed whilst working within the field of men’s body dissatisfaction between 2011 and 2018. I have observed these in empirical work on men’s body dissatisfaction, media coverage and participants’ own accounts in qualitative research I have conducted. I argue these discourses are sexist and identify them as: (1) Men Are The Real Beauty Victims; (2) Women Should Stop Obsessing; (3) Superficial Women; (4) Mothers Are Body Shamers; and (5) Feminism Forces Muscles On Men. I conclude that these discourses further post-feminism, where women’s gains are seen as men’s losses, and neoliberalism, where blame is placed at the individual’s (or woman’s) feet. As an alternative, I outline the feminist approach that recognises the widespread cultural commodification of the body as driving body dissatisfaction.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129084839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deconstructing princess empowerment: A discourse analytic commentary on media representations of royal fashion","authors":"H. Malson, V. Golf","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115687344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age as trouble: Towards alternative narratives of women’s ageing","authors":"J. Raisborough","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"Ageing is trouble for women: our longevity and a lifetime of gendered pay inequalities can leave us exposed to precarity and hardships in later life. Our bodies are thought troublesome as they sag from the registers of heteronormative attractiveness. Age is trouble too because it is the perfect site for the exercise of neoliberal cruel optimism; surveillance, monitoring, individualization and a increasing turn to the market for supposed solutions for the ‘problem’ of age. Can these ageing troubles be troubled and how? This paper applies a critical optimism to explore how older feminist- identified women make their aged-lives habitable in an anti-ageing culture. It discusses how feminism, as a changeable, mobile but mostly problematic resource because of its silence around ageing, nonetheless helped women (aged between 40 -101) articulate how their responses to anti-aging culture are formed and informed and shaped their ambitions for ageing on their terms. This paper concludes by making a case for us ‘age critically’ and explores what obligations and opportunities that places on us as POWES feminist researchers and scholars.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121321589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Standing still whilst ‘looking back and moving forwards’: The personal accounts of POWS members in the here and now","authors":"R. Capdevila, Katherine A. Hubbard, L. Donnelly","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2019.2.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"In 2017, the BPS Psychology of Women Section (POWS) celebrated its 30th anniversary. Within the year that succeeded it was re-named the Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES). This paper reflects not only on POWS (as it was named when this research was conducted) as an organization in the past, but also on the everyday accounts of those who are involved with the Section. Using an online survey including a story completion task, we explored how participants (n= 26) came to POWS; what roles they have engaged in within and outside of the section; and how they see POWS and feminist activism in Psychology moving forward. By analysing thematically, core themes around past reflections, a call for a more radical future and some central challenges were identified. We reflect on these findings and discuss how the positive virtues attributed to POWS exist alongside the tensions between embodying either a critic or a conformist status.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126094948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}