Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1177/08912432251337428
Bianca Fileborn
{"title":"“I Actually Snapped”: Conceptualizing Resistance to Street Harassment as Feminist Snap and Erosion","authors":"Bianca Fileborn","doi":"10.1177/08912432251337428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251337428","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I examine the strategies of resistance deployed by people who have experienced street harassment. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 47 heterosexual women and LGBTQ+ people, I document how participants skillfully and contextually deployed resistance strategies to disrupt harassment. Notably, participants often represented resistance practices as moments of affective, subconscious snap. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s concept of feminist snap as well as feminist scholarship on affect and embodiment, I argue that practices of resistance must be located within a much longer history of harassment which builds up or sediments in the body over time, culminating in an affective breaking point. As Ahmed suggests, “a snap is not the starting point.” Conversely, other participants described being worn down by harassment over time, which I conceptualize as a form of feminist erosion. In examining practices of resistance to street harassment, I aim to provide insight into the disruption and contestation of dominant power relations and the formation of embodied, gendered subjectivities.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143927349","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 : 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1177/08912432251331534
Raquel Delerme
{"title":"“It’s Heartbreaking. It’s Expensive. It’s Hard”: How the Carceral Care Economy Harms Black and Latine Mothers","authors":"Raquel Delerme","doi":"10.1177/08912432251331534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251331534","url":null,"abstract":"While literature on mass incarceration has focused primarily on incarcerated men, their children, and their romantic partners, this article builds on a smaller body of work that highlights the harms to mothers under the constraints of the neoliberal carceral state. In this study, I examine how mothers with incarcerated adult children have been conscripted to perform extractive caring labor. Drawing on data from 21 in-depth interviews, I find that mothers often travel long and costly distances, drain their savings, and work multiple jobs to ensure the survival of their incarcerated children. I argue that 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. I introduce the term carceral care economy to conceptualize the neoliberal commodification of incarceration and the labor imperative it creates for mothers with children who are imprisoned.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875883","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 : 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1177/08912432251336264
Kristina M. Fullerton Rico
{"title":"Book Review: When Care Is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net By Dani Carrillo When Care Is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net. By CarrilloDani. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2024, 212pp., $35.00 (paper or ebook).","authors":"Kristina M. Fullerton Rico","doi":"10.1177/08912432251336264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251336264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143876089","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 : 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1177/08912432251330923
Kai W. Mckinney, David G. Ortiz
{"title":"Pursuing Gender Euphoria: A Model of Gender Dysphoria as a Social Process","authors":"Kai W. Mckinney, David G. Ortiz","doi":"10.1177/08912432251330923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251330923","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from a series of semi-structured interviews with gender-diverse participants, we propose reframing the phenomenon of gender dysphoria as part of a larger social process rooted in the pursuit of gender euphoria. Our findings suggest that gender dysphoria is the result of a social process of negotiating access to gender-euphoric desires across the macro, interactional, and individual levels. Those desires were confronted at each level of social interaction with what we term lenses of impossibility, which comprise cisnormative institutional barriers, cisheteronormative family values, and individual transnormative expectations. These lenses of impossibility foreclosed gender-euphoric desires. The resulting experience was dysphoric distress, described as feelings of invisibility at the macro level, interactional misrecognition as a personal failure, and individual embodied tightness. When trying to solve this distress, participants were faced with transnormative material realities such as disaffirming interactions with medical personnel, interactional peer pressure to pursue transition, and individual agency or normativity when engaging with gender-affirming medical interventions. We call this the social process of gender dysphoria.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862880","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 : 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1177/08912432251332948
Jade Levell
{"title":"Book Review: From South Central to Southside: Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City , By Adam Baird From South Central to Southside: Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City. By BairdAdam. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024, 187 pp., $29.95 (paper); $94.50 (cloth).","authors":"Jade Levell","doi":"10.1177/08912432251332948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251332948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863048","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 : 2025-04-16DOI: 10.1177/08912432251330922
Vivian Shaw, Kanoko Kamata
{"title":"Compartmentalizing Intersectionality: Feminist Translations in Anti-Racist and Anti-Rape Activism in Japan","authors":"Vivian Shaw, Kanoko Kamata","doi":"10.1177/08912432251330922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251330922","url":null,"abstract":"Feminists scholars based in the United States have long struggled with applying intersectionality to a transnational lens. This article explores intersectionality’s translations, drawing on two cases in Japan: the first, an anti-racism movement, and the second, a coalitional anti-rape campaign. We offer the concept of compartmentalizing intersectionality to describe the practices of prioritizing and deprioritizing certain social issues within social movement agendas, as they maneuver how to recognize multiple vectors of inequality. By providing insights into the structural and logistical constraints underpinning multidimensional social justice strategies, our article contributes to a richer understanding of intersectionality in theory and praxis at the transnational scale.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841233","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 : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1177/08912432251333427
Ellen Lamont
{"title":"Book Review: Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North By Tina Fetner Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North. By FetnerTina. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2024, 204 pp., CA $75.00 (cloth); CA $32.95 (paper).","authors":"Ellen Lamont","doi":"10.1177/08912432251333427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251333427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143832267","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 : 2025-04-12DOI: 10.1177/08912432251331544
Chelle Jones
{"title":"OUTSIDER EXEMPTION: Transgender Migrants and Gender Accountability in South Korea","authors":"Chelle Jones","doi":"10.1177/08912432251331544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251331544","url":null,"abstract":"“Doing gender” has been explored in a variety of contexts. However, <jats:italic>accountability</jats:italic> to gender is understudied, leading scholars to call for work that analyzes the varying salience of gender accountability. I respond by studying transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC+) migrants originally from the West and Southeast Asia who now live in South Korea. How do TGNC+ migrants experience accountability to gender, race/ethnicity, class, and national origin boundaries in Korea and origin societies? I find that TGNC+ migrants feel safer in Korea than in their origin societies—including those that may be conventionally considered more progressive than Korea—to “do gender” in affirming ways. The reasons are that medical care is rarely gatekept, and public spaces facilitate gender affirmation for TGNC+ migrants because they are held less accountable to gender than their Korean peers. For this reason, I call them <jats:italic>exempt outsiders</jats:italic> . The exempt outsider is rarely held accountable to gender because their “outsider” status, inflected by national origin, class, and race/ethnicity, displaces gender as the primary frame through which boundaries are drawn in their interactions with Korean “insiders.” By integrating the literature on gender accountability with boundary studies, I highlight the shifting salience of gender, national origin, class, and race/ethnicity when TGNC+ individuals migrate and interact in different social contexts. I identify what conditions enable gender identity affirmation by TGNC+ migrants in a destination that is not regarded as legally LGBTQ-friendly. I further distinguish the different ways in which their construction as exempt outsiders affects TGNC+ migrants in Korea in terms of their intersectional placement in local power hierarchies, such as national origin, class, and race/ethnicity.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824849","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 : 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1177/08912432251326916
Claire Corsten, Rebecca Daviddi, Jan Doering
{"title":"Empowered by Adversity? Exit, Voice, and Silence in the Aftermath of Gender Discrimination at Work","authors":"Claire Corsten, Rebecca Daviddi, Jan Doering","doi":"10.1177/08912432251326916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251326916","url":null,"abstract":"Social psychological research suggests that workplace discrimination harms women’s self-confidence and mental health, which may lead them to remain silent or quit their jobs after facing discrimination. However, feminist scholarship argues that discrimination can generate feminist consciousness and resistance. To interrogate these conflicting expectations, we draw on in-depth interviews with professional women to examine exit, voice, and silence in discrimination’s aftermath. We find that some women remain silent or exit organizations in search of less hostile environments. Others, however, develop feminist consciousness, voice complaints, and sometimes accomplish hard-fought changes within their organizations. To explain these divergent responses, we identify support networks as a crucial mechanism. Support networks help women avoid self-blame and rumination by resolving the ambiguity that frequently obscures discrimination. Support networks also spread awareness of discrimination and generate feminist solidarity. In doing so, they encourage women to contest negative treatment by exercising voice. Implications for the study of workplace discrimination, the debate over the stalled gender revolution, and occupational segregation are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143702788","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}