Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.1177/08912432221105037
Rhiannon Lord
{"title":"Book Review: Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace by Georgia Cervin","authors":"Rhiannon Lord","doi":"10.1177/08912432221105037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221105037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"965 - 967"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41917406","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 : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1177/08912432221102145
Marbella Eboni Hill
{"title":"Do the Marriageable Men want to Protect and Provide? The Expectation of Black Professional Hybrid Masculinity","authors":"Marbella Eboni Hill","doi":"10.1177/08912432221102145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221102145","url":null,"abstract":"Gender ideologies are embedded in intersecting race, class, and gender systems. Yet Black masculinity is often defined one-dimensionally, without attention to class variation in gender enactment. Particularly, with regard to heterosexual partnering, representations of Black masculinity most often involve men enacting compensatory displays to account for having too little masculine capital to meet the dominant culture’s protector–provider prerequisites for accomplishing marital masculinity. Drawing from interviews with 42 never-married Black professional men, I explore their ideas about how masculinity ought to be done within the marital relationship—a critical site for the reproduction of gender inequality. Findings reveal that these men construct “Black professional hybrid masculinity” around a simultaneously racialized and classed compensatory strategy of masculine protection and equitable spousal sharing, resisting simple classification as either hegemonic or counterhegemonic. Rather, it is a distinctly hybrid masculine strategy. These men cherry-pick hegemonic gender norms to reconstruct gender identities that reaffirm their sense of manhood and idealize their future wives as symbols of hybrid femininity—work-devoted women who are also femininely in need of masculine protection. This research offers an intersectional extension of hybrid masculinity and illustrates the need for heterogeneous and context-varied theories of how Black men do gender.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"498 - 524"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43101533","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 : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1177/08912432221102155
K. Ward
{"title":"Gender Regimes and Cambodian Labor Unions","authors":"K. Ward","doi":"10.1177/08912432221102155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221102155","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, labor unions have been criticized for being highly gendered, patriarchal organizations that struggle to engage with, and represent, women. In Cambodia, the disparity between women’s activism and organizational power is particularly acute. Women workers are the face of the labor movement, yet they remain excluded from union leadership despite some movement toward more progressive gender policies within unions. Using data from semi-structured interviews with workers and union leaders in the construction and garment sectors, I illustrate how gendered narratives and practices of control are mobilized through gender regimes that operate in the household, the workplace, and unions. I propose an analytical framework that incorporates these three interlocking gender regimes to draw attention to the contradictory role of unions in advocating for worker rights while depoliticizing women’s activism and sustaining gender inequity. I argue that it is the contradictory relationship between these regimes that entrenches women’s subordination within unions despite their numerical strength.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"578 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44645752","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 : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432221103129
Maren T. Scull
{"title":"Book Review: Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance: A Multilevel Analysis by Tina H. Deshotels and Craig J Forsyth","authors":"Maren T. Scull","doi":"10.1177/08912432221103129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221103129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"963 - 965"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47011413","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 : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432221102151
Eunsil Oh, Eunmi Mun
{"title":"Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea","authors":"Eunsil Oh, Eunmi Mun","doi":"10.1177/08912432221102151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221102151","url":null,"abstract":"Despite growing concerns that parental leave policies may reinforce the marginalization of mothers in the labor market and reproduce the gendered division of household labor, few studies examine how women themselves approach and use parental leave. Through 64 in-depth interviews with college-educated Korean mothers, we find that although women’s involvement in family responsibilities increases during leave, they do not reduce their work devotion but reinvent it throughout the leave-taking process. Embedded in the culture of overwork in Korean workplaces, women find it justifiable to use leave only when they are highly committed to work and adjust the length of leave to accommodate workplace demands. Upon returning to work, they try to compensate for their absence by working harder than before, thereby showing that they are more committed than their colleagues. Given this “compensatory” work devotion, women question their own entitlement in the workplace, and some quit when they cannot meet their goal of compensating by doing more than others. This study highlights how the workplace culture shapes women’s work devotion during and after leave.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"552 - 577"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44781594","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 : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432221102148
Constance Hsiung
{"title":"Gender-Typed Skill Co-Occurrence and Occupational Sex Segregation: The Case of Professional Occupations in the United States, 2011–2015","authors":"Constance Hsiung","doi":"10.1177/08912432221102148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221102148","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of occupational sex segregation rely on the sociocultural model to explain why some occupations are numerically dominated by women and others by men. This model argues that occupational sex segregation is driven by norms about gender-appropriate work, which are frequently conceptualized as gender-typed skills: work-related tasks, abilities, and knowledge domains that society views as either feminine or masculine. The sociocultural model thus explains the primary patterns of occupational sex segregation, which conform to these norms: Requirements for feminine (masculine) skills increase with women’s (men’s) representation in the occupation. However, the model does not adequately explain cases of segregation that deviate from these norms or investigate the ways in which feminine and masculine skills co-occur in occupations. The present study fills these gaps by evaluating two previously untested explanations for deviations from the sociocultural model. The findings show that requirements for physical strength (a masculine skill) increase with women’s representation in professional occupations because physical strength skills co-occur with substantially higher requirements for feminine skills that involve helping and caring for others. These results indicate that the sociocultural model, and more generally explanations for how gender norms drive occupational sex segregation, can be improved by examining patterns of gender-typed skill co-occurrence.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"469 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45099812","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 : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1177/08912432221102150
Courtney Thornton, J. Reich
{"title":"Black Mothers and Vaccine Refusal: Gendered Racism, Healthcare, and the State","authors":"Courtney Thornton, J. Reich","doi":"10.1177/08912432221102150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221102150","url":null,"abstract":"Vaccine refusal has increasingly been the focus of public health concern. Rates of children who are up to date on vaccines have declined in recent years, and vaccine refusal has been implicated in disease outbreaks. Most research on children who are not fully immunized identifies white affluent mothers as most likely to opt out by choice and Black mothers as more likely to face structural barriers that limit access to vaccines for their children. In this paper, we analyze social media posts and online discussions among Black mothers to better understand their concerns about vaccines. Unlike white women who reject vaccines as a personal choice, Black mothers express unique concerns about the role of the state in their lives. Specifically, some Black mothers using social media view vaccines as a white technology and claim that white women have greater freedom in opting out of vaccines without the same risks to their families. They describe efforts to strategize interactions with pediatricians and other healthcare providers who can report them to social service agencies or block access to welfare and nutritional benefits for their families if they refuse vaccines. Black women’s experiences with structural gendered racism in interactions with healthcare and education systems shape vaccine decisions and should be taken seriously.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"525 - 551"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43640741","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 : 2022-06-04DOI: 10.1177/08912432221101521
Vrinda Marwah
{"title":"Book Review: Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women’s Lives in Rural North India by Shruti Chaudhry","authors":"Vrinda Marwah","doi":"10.1177/08912432221101521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221101521","url":null,"abstract":"in the community to empower them to carry this traditional knowledge forward for their children. Making Livable Worlds is a poignant, necessary, and accessible read. Very few of us can expect to be unscathed by the “turbulent ongoingness” (p. 12) of intensifying social disinvestment and global ecological destruction. That said, we can try to prepare for the unknown challenges to come by humbling ourselves and learning from the examples set by Black Puerto Rican women and those who never had the privilege of another way. As she masterfully weaves together micro-level accounts with macrolevel context, Lloréns forms a powerful book that will enhance the syllabi and bibliographies of students and scholars interested in Gender and Family Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Empire Studies, Decolonizing Methodologies, and Disaster Studies.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"777 - 779"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65179405","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 : 2022-05-15DOI: 10.1177/08912432221098117
K. Heffernan
{"title":"Book Review: The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining Our Society by Bernadette Barton","authors":"K. Heffernan","doi":"10.1177/08912432221098117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221098117","url":null,"abstract":"traditional academic canon, such as “Black feminists [. . .] attuned to the afterlives of slavery” (p. 152). The result is a theoretically sophisticated book that charts new territory within the literature. One downside is that Suspicion would likely be difficult to read for students and scholars unfamiliar with Charles’ theoretical foundations. The book is, however, well suited for graduate-level courses and scholars interested in the intersection of gender, race, and vaccine hesitancy.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"766 - 768"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48700961","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}