NEW BLOG | RESPECTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY: HBCU WOMEN'S GENDER STRATEGIES FOR HETEROSEXUALITY Dr. Mercedez Dunn-Gallier examines the contradictions and challenges of accomplishing Black respectable womanhood through collegiate sex and romance for cisgender heterosexual undergraduate women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).| Gender & Society
NEW BLOG | WHAT IF BEING TRANS IS ABOUT PURSUING GENDER EUPHORIA? Kai W. McKinney with Dr. David G. Ortiz discuss their journey toward reframing gender dysphoria as the pursuit of gender euphoria, and explain how the relationship between gender dysphoria and gender euphoria is mediated by what they call "lenses of impossibility."| Gender & Society
NEW BLOG | THE HIDDEN COSTS OF MOTHERING AN INCARCERATED ADULT CHILD Raquel Delerme draws on in-depth interviews with mothers with incarcerated adult children, finding 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.| Gender & Society
Dr. Rui Jie Peng uncovers complex gendered and intergenerational power dynamics surrounding intensive childrearing in migrant households in China and illuminates the negotiations that occur when Qiang grandmothers assert their agency.| Gender & Society
Feranaaz Farista and Ameeta Jaga, Ph.D. In our article for Gender & Society titled, Workplace Breastfeeding as Foodwork in Organizational Settings: Advancing Knowledge from Black, Low-Income Women in South Africa, we highlight the struggles and innovations in these mothers’ attempts to nourish their children and hold on to a job. We interviewed 33 black, low-income … Continue reading Breastfeeding as Foodwork: The Unseen Labour of Employed Black Low-income Mothers in South Africa→| Gender & Society
Dr. Iman Dawood draws upon theories of religious defection and the development of feminist consciousness to demonstrate how piety and feminism can come together to motivate women’s departures from gender-traditional religious communities.| Gender & Society
Tori Shucheng Yang, Changhui Song, and Hui Xie examine how heterosexual women in China who are unwittingly married to men who have sex with men draw upon heteronormativity to rework their identities in response to the disclosure of their husbands’ sexuality. Their analysis highlights how identity provides a crucial link between individuals’ management of the contradictions in the dominant sexual binary and the reproduction of heteronormativity.| Gender & Society
MATERNAL TIME STRETCHING: WHY DO SOME MIGRANT MOTHERS IN CHINA USE HOME CCTV AND SMARTWATCHES TO MONITOR THEIR CHILDREN? Rachel Murphy and Gaohui Wu examine how a subset of working migrant mothers in China use home CCTV and smartwatches to make their time at work stretch to also cover meeting their domestic responsibilities.| Gender & Society
BLOG ALERT! | DIASPORIC CAPITAL: CANADIAN SEX WORKERS OF COLOR HACKING SEXUAL RACISM Dr. Menaka Raguparan examines how Canadian sex workers of color utilize diasporic capital to juxtapose dominant …| Gender & Society
Breastfeeding as Foodwork: The Unseen Labour of Employed Black Low-income Mothers in South Africa| Gender & Society
Christina Bornatici and Isabelle Zinn investigate how Swiss couples divide paid and unpaid work in their lives, and what drives these decisions. Examining such dynamics, they argue, sheds light on …| Gender & Society
