Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2026-04-27DOI: 10.1177/08912432261438481
Olivia A. Johnson
{"title":"Book Review: The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood , By Grace E. Howard and Criminalizing Motherhood and Reproduction , Edited By Michelle Hughes Miller The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood. By HowardGrace E.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2024, 296 pp., $85.00 (hardcover); $29.95 (paper; eBook).Criminalizing Motherhood and Reproduction. Edited By MillerMichelle Hughes. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025, 108 pp., $160.00 (hardcover); $49.59 (paper); $49.59 (eBook).","authors":"Olivia A. Johnson","doi":"10.1177/08912432261438481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261438481","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147751488","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}
Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2026-04-02DOI: 10.1177/08912432261436405
Roderick A. Ferguson
{"title":"Psychopathic Relations and the Super-Patriarch","authors":"Roderick A. Ferguson","doi":"10.1177/08912432261436405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261436405","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyzes the psychopathic (i.e., anti-social) currents within hegemonic social relations—deregulation, environmental devastation, militarization, and the like. The essay locates these currents within patriarchal norms. It also promotes feminist theory as a resource for assessing the psychopathic relations that these norms have produced.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586575","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}
Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2026-03-30DOI: 10.1177/08912432261436445
Eman Abdelhadi
{"title":"Barricades at the Ivory Tower: The University as a Site of Struggle","authors":"Eman Abdelhadi","doi":"10.1177/08912432261436445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261436445","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that the current assault on academia represents not an unprecedented crisis of academic freedom, but the enduring contradictions of liberalism and the U.S. university. Rejecting liberal nostalgia for a past that never secured freedom for women, queer people, people of color, or workers, I position Palestine as a paradigm through which the limits of free speech, institutional autonomy, and liberal rights are made visible. Drawing on my location as a Palestinian feminist scholar, I show how bipartisan repression of Palestine activism exposes the university as an elite institution of power rather than a refuge from it. Against calls to defend the university as it was, I argue for a radical reimagining of what it could be. The essay advances a three-part intervention for feminist scholars: articulating an emancipatory vision of the university as a democratic commons; shifting from episodic mobilization to sustained organizing that builds material power; and embracing a coalitional, multi-flank strategy across students, faculty, staff, and communities. I conclude that Palestine has not only laid bare the university’s failures but has opened new horizons for demanding a fundamentally different institution aligned with justice and collective liberation.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536268","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}
Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2026-03-26DOI: 10.1177/08912432261431293
Sarah Ihmoud
{"title":"Hunger and the Palestinian Womb","authors":"Sarah Ihmoud","doi":"10.1177/08912432261431293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261431293","url":null,"abstract":"This article theorizes the Palestinian womb as both a site of Zionist colonial violence and Palestinian futurity through the story of Shema, a young woman who became pregnant and gave birth during Gaza’s ongoing genocide. Drawing on decolonial Palestinian feminism and Indigenous feminist scholarship, I argue that Israel’s weaponization of starvation constitutes a gendered assault on Palestinian social reproduction, targeting pregnant and breastfeeding women to sever intergenerational continuity. Shema’s narrative—from her interrupted wedding in October 2023 through forced displacement, miscarriage, and ultimately the birth of her son Youssef amid bombardment and acute malnutrition—reveals how genocide operates not only through military violence but also through the systematic destruction of life’s conditions. Her testimony illuminates what Shalhoub-Kevorkian terms genocidal “unchilding” and what I theorize as the colonial targeting of reproductive futures. Yet Shema’s story also embodies revolutionary mothering as insurgent care work, refusing to cede the future despite engineered hunger and psychic siege. Situating her experience within genealogies of anti-colonial resistance, I argue that storytelling itself becomes decolonial praxis—a refusal of erasure and a sacred map toward collective liberation. Grounded in intimate testimony and critical analysis, this work demands feminist engagement with starvation as reproductive violence and Palestinian life-making as radical resistance.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507862","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}
Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2026-03-17DOI: 10.1177/08912432261431294
Sylvanna M. Falcón
{"title":"How Decolonial Feminism Can Disrupt End-Times Fascism","authors":"Sylvanna M. Falcón","doi":"10.1177/08912432261431294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261431294","url":null,"abstract":"Since January 2025, monumental anti-democratic actions led by the U.S. government have occurred at a disorienting pace for the world. We are experiencing an apocalyptic version of a far-right ideology that has been referred to as “end-times fascism,” in which global power becomes consolidated for the very few but destruction is the result for the majority of the world, effectively extinguishing hope for a better future. Drawing inspiration from the work of decolonial feminist theorist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui of Bolivia, this essay calls for us to recognize that we—both the ancestral and the present we—can confront this kind of strongmen. Resistance at different levels that engages with a decolonial feminist practice will embolden us to move with courage, with renewed hope, with each other, and to be en route to reimagining the path of a collective feminist future.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147470965","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}
Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2026-03-17DOI: 10.1177/08912432261431274
Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik, S. L. Crawley
{"title":"Necropolitics, “White War,” and Feminism on the Buffer Periphery of Europe: An Interview","authors":"Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik, S. L. Crawley","doi":"10.1177/08912432261431274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261431274","url":null,"abstract":"This dialogue between S. Crawley and Maria Mayerchyk and Olga Plakhotnik, Ukrainian queer feminist scholars, currently based in Germany, addresses the potential of feminisms and LGBT activism in Ukraine in the context of war and militarism. The interviewees offer a nuanced and critical perspective on the position of Ukraine and Ukrainians within an interconnected world marked by multiple wars and overlapping crises. They reflect on broader theoretical and political issues related to whiteness, coloniality, and imperial formations, with particular attention to European peripheries. As scholar-activists, Maria Mayerchyk and Olga Plakhotnik have collaborated for more than two decades on feminist and LGBT organizing in Ukraine; in 2024, they received the Honorary Feminist Sociologist and Global Feminist Partner awards (respectively) from Sociologists for Women in Society.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147470966","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}
Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2026-03-15DOI: 10.1177/08912432261431281
Scott Kurashige
{"title":"“The Only Way to Survive is by Taking Care of One Another”: Grace Lee Boggs on the Feminist Revolution From Below","authors":"Scott Kurashige","doi":"10.1177/08912432261431281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261431281","url":null,"abstract":"The revolutionary philosophy and activism of Grace Lee Boggs provide a model for social relations centered on an ethic of care. After witnessing the collapse of the industrial order in Detroit, which was a sign of a broader structural crisis that would reshape U.S. politics and economics, Boggs foresaw how the decline of the American middle class created openings for the far right to assert a white nationalist form of identity and collectivity in the face of economic uncertainty. To counter this xenophobic, fascist trend, Boggs drew on the democratic lessons of the civil rights and feminist movements, which prioritized collective care over private profit and exploitation. Grassroots activists particularly offer models of solidarity from below that are vital to creating models of a new and more humane social system. The author draws from experience co-authoring a book with Boggs and collaborating with her on community organizing strategies while living in Detroit.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147461946","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}