LOOSENING THE GRIp
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2M ago
Delegation of Financial Decision Making to Spouse in Old Age By Dr. Anup Basu You can find Professor Basu on Twitter/X @anupkbasu ! Image generated by AI Aging can bring about a decline in cognitive abilities, thereby affecting our financial decision-making capacity. Although in many married households, one spouse is primarily responsible for managing household finances, discharging this responsibility can become challenging with age and it may become necessary to share it with the other spouse. Recognizing when and how to share or delegate financial decisions to the spouse is crucial to preve ..read more
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The Intersectionality of Parenting Rights
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by Gender & Society
2M ago
How Racist and Anti-Trans Stereotypes Work Together in Adoption and Custody Disputes By Derek Siegel Anti-trans legislation is at an all-time high. In 2023, 49 U.S. states proposed almost 600 anti-trans bills that would restrict access to gender-affirming care, ban mentions of LGBTQ people from K-12 schools, and ban trans women and girls from joining women’s sports teams. Bans have been proposed even in places where no trans athletes have knowingly participated, let alone “dominated” the sport. But what does this have to do with parenting and reproductive justice? I’ve written elsewhere about ..read more
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Reconciling normative expectations with stigmatized desires
Gender & Society
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2M ago
Straight men and women in Hong Kong’s sex parties By: Pamela Tsui How do straight people reconcile their aspirations to conform to normative expectations with their desires for stigmatized sexual exploration? My 29-month ethnographic study investigates this tension between normative aspirations and nonnormative desires among heterosexual, cisgender participants in a sex party club in Hong Kong. These participants, typically embracing their roles as dutiful wives, husbands, daughters, and sons in daily life, discreetly explore their deviant sexual desires within sex parties, which are tightly ..read more
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Gender Segregation in Civic Life – Women’s and Men’s Involvement in Voluntary Associations
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by Gender & Society
5M ago
By Kasimir Dederichs and Nan Dirk de Graaf  Many social settings are gender-segregated: At the workplace, in higher education, and in friendship cliques, women and men typically encounter peers of their own gender. This separation slows down efforts toward gender equality because women and men get access to different resources through their social networks and engage in gender-typed behaviors and activities. But much less is known about gender segregation in civic life. Voluntary associations, such as sports clubs, community associations, or leisure groups, are often viewed as places tha ..read more
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DOES MONEY SHAPE COUPLES’ LABOR DIVISION AFTER THE BIRTH OF THEIR FIRST CHILD?
Gender & Society
by Gender & Society
7M ago
By Regula Zimmerman After the birth of their first child, different sex couples often opt for a gendered labor division, with mothers assuming more of the primary responsibility for childcare, which often leads to a reduction in their salaried working hours, while fathers continue full-time employment. In my research, I analyzed the role financial aspects play when new parents negotiate their labor division. What role do childcare costs play when parents decide whether to work outside the home or take care of their children by themselves? Are mothers more likely to reduce their paid working h ..read more
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A Note From The Incoming Editorial Team
Gender & Society
by Gender & Society
8M ago
Dear friends and colleagues, We’re thrilled to step into the co-editorship of Gender & Society. We began our editorial work with new submissions on May 1, 2023. Our first full issue, as the new editorial team, will be out in February 2024. Given the long history of critical feminist scholarship and leadership by former editors, the SWS Publications Committee, and the SWS community at large, we recognize the responsibilities on us to continue this legacy. We are confident that we will rise to the occasion over the next four years with our team of deputy editors, Professors Erika Busse-Cárde ..read more
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Gay Sexual Positioning and Black Hypermasculinity
Gender & Society
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8M ago
By Terrell J.A. Winder How do Black gay men police the boundaries of masculinity? I did not originally set out to answer this question, but during my time spent in a community organization in Los Angeles that served a predominantly Black gay male clientele, I came to be fascinated by how gender boundaries were policed among a group of men whose masculinities were constantly challenged because they were gay. I spent over 4 years going to weekly community organization meetings and interviewing Black gay men between 2012 and 2017. I observed conversations between these young men. They revealed t ..read more
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‘Maternity’ Services Need to be Inclusive of Trans and Non-Binary People Who Give BIrth
Gender & Society
by Gender & Society
8M ago
By Sally Pezaro, Gemma Pearce, and Adam Jowett – Coventry University, United Kingdom. ‘Maternity’ services are one of the most gendered domains in health care and ‘midwifery’ is typically ‘woman-centred’ care. The very word ‘maternity’ is derived from the Latin for motherhood. Similarly, ‘midwifery’ (a health profession that focuses on pregnancy and childbirth) is derived from Old English, translated as ‘with woman’. Yet an increasing number of people using these services include childbearing trans men and nonbinary people. New attention is being given to how such services might be made inclu ..read more
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Who Is Trans and How Do We Know?
Gender & Society
by Gender & Society
9M ago
By Tey Meadow and Katharine Khanna It’s not an easy time to publish an “experimental” study on transgender categorization, particularly one focused on youth. Transgender children, their families, and the adult professionals who work with them are under violent attack across the United States. More than two dozen bills across 11 states banning access to trans-related health care have been introduced in 2023 alone. Other legislative actions are popping up that aim to redefine legal “sex” in ways that exclude transgender people from acquiring accurate identity documents and school records, roll ..read more
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Gender-Atypical Learning Experiences For men Reduce Occupational Sex Segregation
Gender & Society
by Gender & Society
9M ago
By Maik Hamjediers Women and men work in different occupations. Such sex segregation is a prominent feature of labor markets in most countries and has been relatively stable over the last two decades after a period when women moved into male dominated positions. Such occupational sex segregation perpetuates stereotypes of women and men being differently suited for various occupations. Segregation underlies gender inequalities in occupations, such as the gender wage gap. In many countries there are initiatives to counteract occupational sex segregation by attracting women into occupations that ..read more
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