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Book Review: Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies, By Michele Meek Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Susan Berridge
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Book Review: Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel, By Orit Avishai Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Tanya Zion-Waldoks
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Book Review: The Prism of Human Rights: Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador, By Karin Friederic Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Ingrid Bachmann
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Book Review: Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention, By Laura Mamo Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Adina Nack
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Book Review: Teaching Fear: How We Learn to Fear Crime and Why It Matters by Nicole E. Rader Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anna Gjika
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Book Review: Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism by Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoe Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Stephanie D. Mccall
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THE MYTH OF MUTUALITY: Decision-Making, Marital Power, and the Persistence of Gender Inequality Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Jaclyn S. Wong, Allison Daminger
Invisible power—the ability to resist changing one’s behavior because of an unspoken consensus that the status quo is natural or inevitable—upholds gender inequality in different-gender marriages. Yet the “consensus” that Aafke Komter documented more than 30 years ago—one in which both men and women endorsed male primacy and believed it natural for women to enjoy housework and men to pursue professional
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WOMEN AND FORESTS IN SOLIDARITY: A Multispecies Companionship Case From the Aegean Forests of Turkey Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Nihan Bozok
Building on a feminist multispecies perspective, this article examines the interwoven relationships between forest ecosystems and the lives of rural women living along the Aegean coast of Turkey. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Aegean region’s forest settlements between 2018 and 2022 forms the basis of this study. I focus on three ways women highlight their entanglements with forests into weaving
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“I AM A FEMINIST, BUT . . .” Practicing Quiet Feminism in the Era of Everyday Backlash in South Korea Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Gowoon Jung, Minyoung Moon
In this study, we investigate the practice of feminism among young South Korean women in the era of backlash. Drawing on interviews with 40 female college students in South Korea, we found that most of the participants self-identify as feminists who engage in feminist activities primarily in private offline settings on their college campuses. To understand this phenomenon of quiet feminism, which contradicts
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LOOSENING THE GRIP: Delegation of Financial Decision-Making to Spouse in Old Age Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sylvain Hohn, Anup Basu, Uwe Dulleck, Julie Henry, Nicolas Cherbuin
Gender inequality in control of household finances is a well-known phenomenon. We investigate whether such imbalance also extends to the delegation of financial decision-making (FDM) responsibilities to one’s spouse in old age. This study reports the results from an incentivized delegation experiment among Australian couples of age ≥60 years. Participants were required to complete FDM tasks, which
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COUPLE IDENTITY WORK: Collaborative Couplehood, Gender Inequalities, and Power in Naming Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Christina A. Sue, Jessica vasquez-tokos, Adriana c. Núñez
The study of baby naming is valuable for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in families. Often treated as an event, baby naming also represents an important social and cultural process that can reveal gendered dynamics in couple decision-making. Baby naming, which represents a highly visible and symbolic family milestone, is a strategic site in which to examine how couple identities
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The Matrix of Violence: Intersectionality and Necropolitics in the Murder of Transgender People in the United States, 1990–2019 Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Laurel Westbrook
It is well established that there are racial and gendered inequalities in murders of cisgender people. However, lack of data has hampered intersectional analyses of these factors for transgender pe...
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Coming Into Identity: How Gender Minorities Experience Identity Formation Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Sonny Nordmarken
Previous studies have found that trans people claim to have consistent gender identities over their lifetimes. As a result, scholars know little about processes through which individuals come to id...
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Imprisoning Intimacy: The Expanding Sites of Racialized-Gendered Carceral Violence Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Allison E. Monterrosa
This study conceptualizes carceral violence to include the intimate sphere, highlighting a form of systemic racialized-gendered violence I term intimate carceral violence, which consists of two dis...
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An Intersectional Analysis of System Avoidance Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Marta Ascherio
Recent work on communities of color has elaborated on the concept of system avoidance, which is the avoidance of institutions that keep formal records, such as banks, hospitals, and law enforcement...
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Gender, Race, and Violence Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Pallavi Banerjee, Maria Cecilia Hwang
In this introduction to the Special Issue on Gender, Race and Violence, we go back to the roots of intersectionality and foreground an intersectional lens in our examination of violence against wom...
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Building the Settler Colonial Order: Police (In)Actions in Response to Violence Against Indigenous Women in “Canada” Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Jerry Flores, Andrea Román Alfaro
In this article we focus on missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in “Canada.” We theorize narratives that police employ to respond to this violence. Using a broad dat...
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Israeli Ethno-Religious Differences in Motherhood Penalties on Employment and Earnings Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Michelle J. Budig, Vered Kraus, Asaf Levanon
Israeli society presents a unique context for studying motherhood’s impacts on employment and earnings: High fertility and marriage rates coincide with high rates of women’s education and employmen...
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Multidimensional Gender Ideologies Across Europe: Evidence From 36 Countries Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Katia Begall, Daniela Grunow, Sandra Buchler
In this paper, we use the “gender as a social structure” framework to assess macro-, interactional-, and micro-level mechanisms explaining the stalled revolution in gender ideologies. Using the Eur...
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Gender Differences in Job Resources and Strains in Authority Positions Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Dragana Stojmenovska
In contrast to the rich literature on the causes of the gender gap in workplace authority, relatively little is known about how the jobs and experiences of women and men compare once they have posi...
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The Interior of the Movement for Black Lives: “A New Political Generation” Interior of the M4BL Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Shaneda destine
Limited sociological literature exists on the interior of local organizations’ intersectional politics in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). To address this gap in the literature, I conducted 48 ...
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“I have Tasted Freedom”: An Intersectional Analysis of College-Going Latinas’ Desire for and Meanings of Mobility Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Michelle Gomez Parra, Lorena Garcia
Research examining socioeconomic and spatial mobility has shown that gender and sexuality inform approaches to both types of mobility. For Latinas, various axes of power limit, facilitate, and impa...
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Gender Bias in Stem Hiring: Implicit In-Group Gender Favoritism Among Men Managers Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Enav Friedmann, Dorit Efrat-Treister
Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is related to the hierarchical social structure of gender relations in these fields. However, interventions t...
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Perinatal Care for Trans and Nonbinary People Birthing in Heteronormative “Maternity” Services: Experiences and Educational Needs of Professionals Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Sally Pezaro, Rebecca Crowther, Gemma Pearce, Adam Jowett, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Isaac Samuels, Vic Valentine
Childbearing trans and nonbinary people are confronted with the heteronormative and cisgender frameworks that underpin “maternity” services. We explored the educational needs of 108 perinatal staff...
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Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Maria Charles, Roger Friedland, Janet Afary, Rujun Yang
Western stereotypes often characterize gender relations in Muslim-majority societies as uniformly traditional and patriarchal. Underlying this imagery is a unidimensional understanding of gender id...
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Homophobic Bullying as Gender Policing: Population-Based Evidence Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Joel Mittleman
Although the policing of gendered embodiment is central to ethnographic accounts of sexual minority bullying, data limitations have prevented population-level analyses of how gender expression shap...
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The Gender Fix: Outsourcing Feminism and the Gender Politics of Supply Chains Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Eileen Otis, Larissa L. Petrucci
Decades of feminist research has revealed the dismal labor conditions for women in global supply chains. Given this reality, why does Walmart use women in its supply chain as icons of female empowe...
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Feminist Lecture: (Re) Imagining Gender-Based Violence as a Strategy for Enforcing Institutional Segregation and Reproducing Structural Inequalities Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Angela J. Hattery
In this article, I develop a framework for re-imagining gender-based violence not as an outgrowth of patriarchy but as a response to the threat of gender integration and the inversion of the gender...
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“Just Let it Pass by and it will Fall on Some Woman”: Invisible Work in the Labor Market Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Amit Kaplan
Invisible work is neither defined nor recognized as labor and is not compensated as such. Studies show that manifestations of invisible work at home flow into the marketplace. What is lacking is sy...
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Breadwinning, Occupational Sex Composition, and Stress: Examining Psychological Distress and Heavy Drinking at the Intersection of Gender and Race Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Wen Fan
Research on couples’ earnings arrangements has focused on men’s and women’s (non)conformance to the male-breadwinner/female-homemaker model. By doing so, research has ignored the following: Breadwi...
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Does the Pandemic Affect Inequality within Families?: The Case of Dual-Earner Couples in Israel Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Efrat Herzberg-Druker, Tali Kristal, Meir Yaish
This article exploits the unique consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak to examine whether time constraints drive the unequal division of unpaid labor between dual-earner couples in Israel....
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In Women we Trust? Gender-Status Mismatch and Trust in Professional Networks Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Eun Young Song, Antoine Vernet, Stephen Pryke
Although scholars have long acknowledged the importance of having effective networks in business, little is known about the role of women’s professional status in the effectiveness of their network...
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Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Michael Halpin
In this article, I analyze weaponized subordination, wherein men strategically use their perceived subordinate masculine status to legitimate their degradation of women. I draw on a qualitative ana...
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Negotiating “Impossible” Ideals: Latent Classes of Intensive Mothering in the United States Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Jane Lankes
The primary goal of this study is to identify patterns in the ways mothers adhere to, reject, and combine intensive mothering attitudes and behaviors. Mothers often face immense pressure to devote significant physical and mental effort toward childrearing, referred to as intensive mothering. At the same time, many mothers do not follow the actions or beliefs that gender norms suggest they should. It
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Gender & Society in a Post-Roe Era Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Barbara J. Risman
This is the first issue of Gender & Society ever published in a nation where American women and all others who can give birth do not have the constitutional right to control our own fertility. We have been publishing since 1987, and for those 35 years we have assumed that feminist scholarship and activism could build on that basic right to self-determination. No more.
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Gendered Exposure, Gendered Response: Exposure to Wartime Stressors and PTSD in Older Vietnamese War Survivors Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Yvette Young, Miles O. Kovnick, Kim Korinek, Nguyen Huu Minh
Growing numbers of women in militaries worldwide, coupled with vast segments of women within war-affected populations globally, raise questions about gender as it structures trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health consequences of war. In this study, we investigate the gendered associations between early-life wartime stress exposures and PTSD symptoms in older
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Making Sense of Troubled Livelihoods: Gendered Expectations and Poor Health Narratives in Rural South Africa Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Erin Ice, Sanyu A. Mojola, Nicole Angotti, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Brian Houle
When men and women cannot attain idealized gendered forms of economic provision and dependence, how do they make sense of this perceived failure? In this article, we posit that poor health narratives serve as a gendered tool to make sense of inadequate livelihoods, even when that inadequacy is attributable to structural conditions. We draw on survey and life-history interview data from middle-aged
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Documenting the Routine Burden of Devalued Difference in the Professional Workplace Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Rachel M. Korn, Joan C. Williams
Professional workplaces that embody an “ideal worker” image that is implicitly white and male set-up persistent biases against the competence and suitability for authority of those who are not white men, forcing them to work harder to prove their competence and fit in. The added labor of coping with these burdens is largely invisible to dominant actors in the workplace who do not experience them. To
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Breaking Barriers? Examining Neoliberal–Postfeminist Empowerment in Women’s Mixed Martial Arts Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Justen Hamilton
This article problematizes claims of women’s empowerment in “masculine” sports through an exploration of women’s participation in mixed martial arts (MMA)—a combat sport colloquially referred to as “cage fighting.” MMA, perhaps more than any other sport, allows women athletes to challenge patriarchal beliefs about gender by demonstrating women’s capacity for physical violence and domination. But whereas
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Do The Marriageable Men want to Protect and Provide? The Expectation of Black Professional Hybrid Masculinity Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Marbella Eboni Hill
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
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Gender Regimes and Cambodian Labor Unions Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Kristy Ward
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
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Gender-Typed Skill Co-Occurrence and Occupational Sex Segregation: The Case of Professional Occupations in the United States, 2011–2015 Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Constance Hsiung
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
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Black Mothers and Vaccine Refusal: Gendered Racism, Healthcare, and the State Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Courtney Thornton, Jennifer A. Reich
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
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Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Eunsil Oh, Eunmi Mun
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
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Book Review: Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados, By Nicole Charles Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Cristina A. Pop
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Book Review: Violence in Everyday Life: Power, Gender, and Sexuality, By Aliraza Javaid Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Shanna Felix
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Between Women of Color: The New Social Organization of Reproductive Labor Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Jennifer Nazareno, Cynthia Cranford, Lolita Lledo, Valerie Damasco, Patricia Roach
In this article, we examine citizenship inequalities in paid reproductive labor. Through an analysis of elder care in Los Angeles, California, based on interviews with Filipina home care agency workers and owners, we delineate citizen divisions made up of two interlocking dimensions. The longstanding U.S. welfare state abdication of responsibility for elder care for its citizens generates a racialized
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Gender, Veiling, and Class: Symbolic Boundaries and Veiling in Bengali Muslim Families Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 MD Abdus Sabur
In Bangladesh, due to economic growth and greater access to education, more girls and women are veiling, even as they are also more likely to be in school or employed. Some scholars identify this trend of women appearing both “more modern” and “more religious” as paradoxical. On the basis of 114 in-depth interviews with Bangladeshi migrant workers (n = 57) in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Singapore, and South
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“He’s a Mr. Mom”: Cultural Ambivalence in Print News Depictions of Stay-at-Home Fathers, 1987–2016 Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Arielle Kuperberg, Pamela Stone, Torie Lucas
Stay-at-home fathers challenge norms related to masculinity and gendered divisions of parenting roles. We conduct a content analysis of 94 print news articles about at-home fathers published 1987–2016 in the United States, identifying key themes and comparing results with our earlier research on news depictions of at-home mothers. We also analyze national trends in fathers staying home using Current
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Plastic Bodies: Women Workers and Emerging Body Rules in Service Work in Urban India Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Asiya Islam
Drawing on the narratives of young lower-middle-class women employed in cafés, call centers, shopping malls, and offices in Delhi, India, in this paper I identify malleability or “plasticity” of the body as an important feature of contemporary service work. As neophyte service professionals, young women mold themselves to the middle-/upper-class milieu of their workplaces through clothes, makeup, and
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Book Review: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, By Aliya Hamid Rao Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Pilar Gonalons-Pons
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Book Review: No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States By Kristin Haltinner Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Ophra Leyser-Whalen
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Book Review: Gas-Lighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists, By Christine L. Williams Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Di Di
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Book Review: Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice. Edited by Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Janet M. Conway
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Book Review: Modern Day Mary Poppins: The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work by Laura Bunyan Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Mary Blair-Loy
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Book Review: Sharing Milk: Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice by Shannon K. Carter and Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Rhonda M. Shaw
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Book Review: Still a Mother: Noncustodial Mothers, Gendered Institutions, and Social Change by Jackie Krasas Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Stacey L. Shipe
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Revisiting the Gender Revolution: Time on Paid Work, Domestic Work, and Total Work in East Asian and Western Societies 1985–2016 Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Man-Yee Kan, Muzhi Zhou, Kamila Kolpashnikova, Ekaterina Hertog, Shohei Yoda, Jiweon Jun
We analyze time use data of four East Asian societies and 12 Western countries between 1985 and 2016 to investigate the gender revolution in paid work, domestic work, and total work. The closing of gender gaps in paid work, domestic work, and total work time has stalled in the most recent decade in several countries. The magnitude of the gender gaps, cultural contexts, and welfare policies plays a
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Book Review: Korean Wild Geese Families: Gender, Family, Social, and Legal Dynamics of Middle-Class Asian Transnational Families in North America by Se Hwa Lee Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Juyeon Park
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Book Review: Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming by Kishonna L. Gray Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Christopher J. Persaud