Gender & SocietyPub Date : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1177/08912432251343084
Fatma müge Göçek
{"title":"Book Review: Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey: Gender, State and Development By Kübra Zeynep Sarıaslan Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey: Gender, State and Development. By SarıaslanKübra Zeynep. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 210 pp., $115 (cloth); $39.95 (paper).","authors":"Fatma müge Göçek","doi":"10.1177/08912432251343084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251343084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"215 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144104531","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 : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1177/08912432251337416
Daniela R. Urbina, Daria Tisch
{"title":"Perceived Fairness of Couples’ Division of Housework: Evidence From a Multi-Factorial Experiment in the United States","authors":"Daniela R. Urbina, Daria Tisch","doi":"10.1177/08912432251337416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251337416","url":null,"abstract":"Although the ratio of women’s to men’s housework hours has declined, women still spend more time than men doing household tasks in most high-income contexts. This article examines one of the hypothesized mechanisms underlying the persistence of housework disparities—fairness perceptions—via a survey experiment in the United States. We ask: What factors contribute to fairness assessments of unequal divisions of housework in different-sex couples? Given increasing trends in gender-egalitarian attitudes, do people still think it is more fair for women to do a larger share of the housework? To address these questions, we relied on a multi-factorial vignette experiment on a nationally representative sample of 1,502 adults, in which respondents rated the fairness of the divisions of housework among hypothetical couples. Our results demonstrate that respondents engage in trade-off calculations that, to some extent, justify unequal divisions of housework. Spouses’ relative earnings and work time were assessed as contributions that justify doing fewer housework chores for both men and women. Contrary to our expectations, we find that people perceive arrangements where women perform a higher proportion of housework as less fair than scenarios where men do so. These results suggest a shift in public opinion regarding prescriptive gendered norms about housework divisions, contrasting with the decreasing but persistent gender gap in housework disadvantaging women.","PeriodicalId":48351,"journal":{"name":"Gender & Society","volume":"133 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144088339","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 : 2025-05-08DOI: 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}