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The Discursive Work of “Bottom-Shaming”: Sexual Positioning Discourse in the Construction of Black Masculinity “底层羞耻”话语：黑人男性气质建构中的性定位话语

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-07-17 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231186999

Terrell J. A. Winder

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Book Review: Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism by Sarah Prior and Brooke A. De Heer and Sexual Assault on Campus: Defending Due Process by Tamara Rice Lave Sarah Prior和Brooke A.De Heer的书评：《校园性暴力：制度化性恐怖主义的状态》和Tamara Rice Lave的《校园性侵：捍卫正当程序》

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-07-14 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231186764

Nona Maria Gronert

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Book Review: More Than Marriage: Forming Families after Marriage Equality by John G. Culhane 约翰·G·卡尔汉的书评：《超越婚姻：婚姻平等后组建家庭》

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-07-14 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231186763

S. Vogler

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Book Review: This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States by Manijeh Moradian 书评：《内在的火焰：美国的伊朗革命者》，Manijeh Moradian著

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231184797

Neda Maghbouleh

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Book Review: Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America Edited by Katrina Daly Thompson 书评：边缘的穆斯林：在北美建立酷儿宗教社区

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Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231184794

Momin Rahman

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Modern, Empowered, but Stigmatized: Analyzing the Construction of Menstrual Cups as Feminist Technologies 现代的、被赋予权力的、却被污名化的——解读月经杯作为女性主义技术的构建

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231182479

M. Shaw

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The Fragile Male: An Experimental Study of Transgender Classification and the Durability of Gender Categories 脆弱男性：跨性别分类与性别分类持久性的实验研究

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231180152

K. Khanna, Tey Meadow

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Book Review: Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault against Queer Men by Doug Meyer Doug Meyer的书评：《暴力差异：对酷儿男性性侵中种族的重要性》

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-11 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231181065

K. Ralston

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Book Review: Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA by Nadia Y. Kim Nadia Y.Kim书评：《拒绝死亡：移民妇女与洛杉矶环境正义的斗争》

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-07 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231181063

Kevin Escudero

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Parental Leave Policies, Usage Consequences, and Changing Normative Beliefs: Evidence From a Survey Experiment 育儿假政策、使用后果和规范信念的变化：来自调查实验的证据

IF 5.5 1区社会学

Gender & Society Pub Date : 2023-06-04 DOI: 10.1177/08912432231176084

Marie-Fleur Philipp, Silke Büchau, Pia S. Schober, C. Spieß

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