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Keumjae Park 《Gender Issues》2008,25(1):26-42
Whether immigrant women’s introduction to paid labor empowers them with greater autonomy or exacerbates their oppression has
been debated variously in the scholarship on gender and migration. In this paper, the author examines Korean immigrant women’s
perspectives on work outside the home after migration. Based on in-depth interview data, the paper emphasizes Korean women’s
own interpretations of work and motherhood, and highlights the ways in which they define and redefine work in relation to
other aspects of their post-migration experiences. The analysis finds that income producing work is not empowering in and
of itself, but contingent upon other post-migration challenges such as economic downward mobility and women’s changed roles
as working mothers. Furthermore, women’s perception of work fluctuates over time. The findings suggest that paid work should
not be simply interpreted as an empowering change, but the linkage between work and other aspects of immigrant women’s post-migration
realities needs to be more closely examined.
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Keumjae ParkEmail: |
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Sima Zalcberg 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):13-34
Women’s modesty norms are often perceived as governing women’s bodies and as patriarchal oppression. This study challenges
these perspectives, offering a deeper, multi-dimensional picture showing that the reality of the women’s life is much more
complicated. The article chose to discuss aspects of modesty among women of one of the most extreme Jewish ultra-Orthodox
groups, and in particular, to investigate how they experience an extremely demanding requirement—shaving off the hair on their
head upon marriage and covering their head with a black kerchief. The findings show that there are a variety of voices among
the women, ranging from the view that these practices are desirable, through the view that they empower the women, to the
view that they damage one’s attractiveness and are quite painful.
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Sima ZalcbergEmail: |
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Lisa Shawn Hogan 《Gender Issues》2008,25(2):63-79
The World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 is remembered most as the event that inspired Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention. Few scholars, however, have analyzed the debate proceedings
that ultimately resulted in women’s exclusion from the convention. An analysis of the convention proceedings questions Wendell
Phillips’ strategy of speaking on behalf of the women, arguing instead that William Lloyd Garrison’s strategy of silence was
the more rhetorically astute response to the exclusion of women. Garrison’s silent protest not only attracted more attention
to the women’s rights cause, but also inspired women to speak on their own behalf.
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Lisa Shawn HoganEmail: |
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This article examines birth control as practice and discourse in 1920s and 1930s Korea under Japanese colonial rule and explores
links with family planning and reproductive practices in post-1945 South Korea. The control of women’s reproduction held critical
implications for meanings of domesticity, marriage, sexual relations, and new womanhood. While a woman-centered position did
emerge regarding birth control, the parameters of the discourse, concerns of gynecology, and the material culture of birth
control ultimately tied the bodies and health of women to their biological and social roles as mothers.
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Sonja KimEmail: |
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Although there is some awareness of how women in infertility treatment have suffered physically and psychologically, it is
a little known fact that there is a limit to the “cures” that can be achieved even with assisted reproductive technologies.
Here, I describe how the existence of ART affects women’s decision making about their lives. Through life histories of women
who underwent infertility treatment, I explore the factors which cause their suffering and conflict—that they cannot give
up on having children even though they want to give up—as follows: (1) The models of their ideal family which have been formed
throughout their lives is ‘ordinary’ family; (2) they experienced the alienation from their own bodies in infertility treatment;
(3) they are afraid that they deviate from the community norm because of infertility; (4) their narrative shows their suffering
from infertility is caused by tense relationship in family and community. These factors make women in infertility belittle
themselves. Through their life histories, I conclude that they need to be empowered if they want to akirameru (give up) having children after prolonged infertility treatment. To paraphrase, a woman who suffers from infertility and
infertility treatment is empowered when she becomes unafraid to deviated from cultural norms.
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Azumi TsugeEmail: |
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Gwen Hunnicutt 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):35-50
Studies consistently show that female labor force participation is a correlate of infant and child homicide victimization.
Research and theory supports the notion that as women’s economic status improves, children are safer. Yet few existing studies
make use of feminist perspectives to explain child homicide. Further, homicide studies have focused heavily on urban areas
leaving a lacuna of understanding in the literature regarding rural areas. This study explores the connection between absolute
and relative female economic status and infant and child homicide victimization in both rural and urban U.S. counties. Results
show that absolute female economic status is positively associated with infant and child homicide in urban areas, but not
in rural areas. I argue that in rural areas, stronger collective sentiment and less differentiation diminishes the effect
of women’s status on child homicide. While rural areas are characterized by harsh economic realities, these realities are
nevertheless shared among men and women, decentering the link between child victimization and women status.
Gwen Hunnicutt is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include exploring the connection between gender, age and victimization, studying masculinity, aggression and empathy in social context, and building theory to explain gender specific violence and nonviolence. Her most recent paper is titled, “Varieties of Patriarchy and Violence Against Women: Resurrecting ‘Patriarchy’ as a Theoretical Tool.” 相似文献
Gwen HunnicuttEmail: |
Gwen Hunnicutt is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include exploring the connection between gender, age and victimization, studying masculinity, aggression and empathy in social context, and building theory to explain gender specific violence and nonviolence. Her most recent paper is titled, “Varieties of Patriarchy and Violence Against Women: Resurrecting ‘Patriarchy’ as a Theoretical Tool.” 相似文献
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Anne R. Roschelle 《Gender Issues》2008,25(3):193-209
Using data collected during a 4 year ethnography, this paper examines how the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) has impacted homeless women in San Francisco who are also victims of domestic violence. Specifically
this paper looks at how the behavior of abusive men prevents homeless women from successfully navigating the new welfare-to-work
requirements and maintaining stable employment. Findings indicate that despite the discourse touting the success of welfare
reform, the 1996 PRWORA has further disenfranchised an already devastated population systematically forcing them further onto
the margins of society.
Anne R. Roschelle is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her research and teaching interests include family poverty, racial ethnic minorities, gender inequality, ethnography, and welfare reform. 相似文献
Anne R. RoschelleEmail: |
Anne R. Roschelle is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her research and teaching interests include family poverty, racial ethnic minorities, gender inequality, ethnography, and welfare reform. 相似文献
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Julie A. Winterich 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):51-69
In this article, I analyze interviews with a diverse group of 30 women aged 46–71 to understand how they experience signs
of aging, such as weight gain, gray hair, and facial hair, in everyday life. I find that some women’s responses are in line
with normative femininity and appearance norms. Others, however, focus on different gendered meanings of the body that are
connected to care-taking, work, ageist treatment, and past abuse. I argue that feminists should apply the theoretical concept
of femininity more broadly than appearance and attraction issues to gain a deeper understanding of the multiple meanings of
living in an aging female body in a gendered society. In the conclusion, I discuss the implications of this study for public
health policies as well as future research on gender and the body.
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Julie A. WinterichEmail: |
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Keri Weber Sikich 《Gender Issues》2008,25(3):147-156
International female homelessness is a difficult subject to address for a number of reasons. First, understanding what defines
homelessness poses a problem because female homelessness often takes on a different form than that of male homelessness. Also,
homelessness in industrialized countries looks different from that of developing nations where women are more likely to have
inadequate housing in temporary shelters or live as squatters. Both of these factors affect the visibility of female homelessness
as well as the ability to garner an accurate account of the number of homeless women around the world. Understanding the causes
of female homelessness from a global perspective is no less difficult to comprehend because it encompasses so many other multifaceted
issues. Women in developing nations face a different set of issues than their counterparts in the industrialized world because
of differences in property rights, women’s rights generally, access to education, and access to social services. Finally,
immigrant women face a unique set of circumstances of being a foreigner without an adequate social support network.
Keri Weber Sikich is a Ph.D. student at American University in the Justice, Law and Society Department. She has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. 相似文献
Keri Weber SikichEmail: |
Keri Weber Sikich is a Ph.D. student at American University in the Justice, Law and Society Department. She has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. 相似文献
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Mareile Flitsch 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(2):265-288
Knowledge organisation, embodiment of knowledge and knowledge representation are important issues for an anthropology of technology,
which seeks to explore the ways in which people find and shape everyday solutions to social and technical challenges. This
article discusses the impact of skill and of risk prevention on women’s decision-making, as well as on the domestication and
appropriation of new technologies. Particular attention is paid to non-synchronicity as a retarding factor and to the obsolescence
of skills as a critical moment in the transformation of socio-technical systems in twentieth century rural northern China
as elsewhere.
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Mareile FlitschEmail: |
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Marcella Gemelli 《Gender Issues》2008,25(2):101-113
This article explores the ideas of low-income single mothers on certain aspects of welfare reform, namely the Marriage Promotion
Act, which uses funds for the formation and maintenance of two parent families. Drawing on research with former and current
welfare recipients, the author explores how the mothers felt about certain welfare reform policies while trying to understand
their current work and family arrangements. Two main ideas behind welfare reform were to encourage paid work and two parent
families. While the mothers acknowledged that having access to a second wage earner would help themselves and their children
realize a life less complicated by monetary issues, they expressed anger and frustration at being encouraged to marry. Welfare
reform dictates that families receiving assistance take personal responsibility for their low-income lives and that paid work
is essential to moving a family out of poverty. The stories from the mothers interviewed for this study suggest that while
they valued work and wanted to work, to combine work with being a “good mother” was difficult to accomplish. Ultimately, what
these mothers suggest through their experiences is the contradiction of welfare reform—paid work does not necessarily provide
independence and marriage to another wage earner also undermines independence.
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Marcella GemelliEmail: |
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Mother’s and Father’s Day celebrations were investigated to understand how gender is created on these two occasions. Fifty-three
heterosexual couples were interviewed about family holidays. Mother’s Day was given more attention than Father’s Day. Families
spent more time celebrating; they were more likely to eat out, and were more likely to celebrate with others. Mothers were
also more likely to receive gifts than fathers. The gendering of the holidays was reflected in the more stereotypical gifts
received on Mother’s and Father’s Day than on birthdays, and in that mothers were more likely to report relief from chores
on Mother’s Day than fathers were on Father’s Day (p < .01). Families in which women worked full-time and whose husbands contributed substantially to domestic labor were as likely
to celebrate in gendered ways as traditional families were. These holidays reflect and promote hegemonic notions of the gendered
nature of motherhood and fatherhood.
Nicole Gilbert Cote is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her recent research investigates the influence of role models on leadership trait endorsement among women. Francine M. Deutsch is a Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and the author of “Halving it all: How equally shared parenting works.” Her current research focuses on equality in the division of domestic labor among families around the world. 相似文献
Nicole Gilbert CoteEmail: |
Nicole Gilbert Cote is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her recent research investigates the influence of role models on leadership trait endorsement among women. Francine M. Deutsch is a Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and the author of “Halving it all: How equally shared parenting works.” Her current research focuses on equality in the division of domestic labor among families around the world. 相似文献
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So Yeon Leem Jin Hee Park 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(1):9-26
Many Korean women felt strongly positive about donating their eggs for Hwang Woo Suk’s research, in spite of the fact that
Hwang was accused of fraud. It is said that there is a kind of unique ‘egg donation culture’ among Korean women, which urged
them to donate their eggs for his research. However, positing such a Korean ‘egg donation culture’ does not seem to give a
sufficient explanation of why so many Korean women were seemingly willing to provide their own eggs for Hwang’s research.
Instead, we suggest that egg donation issues in the Hwang affair can be interpreted under the paradoxical context, in which
Korean women are situated in the age of biotechnology. On the one hand, the invisibility of women as subjects in the public
sphere led to their lack of social control over ova trafficking and made it possible for a huge number of eggs to be supplied
secretly for Hwang’s team. The patriarchal structure of family, the myth of economic growth, and the restricted activities
of feminist organizations are possible contributors to the invisibility of Korean women. On the other hand, in the practices
of bodily technologies such as cosmetic surgery and reproductive technologies, Korean women have been highly visible. With
the help of those technological instruments, women have been empowered to own their own bodies and to have them at their disposal.
We argue that these dualistic realities of women as egg owners can explain the egg donation culture among Korean women in
the Hwang affair.
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Jin Hee Park (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Jennifer A. Johnson 《Gender Issues》2009,26(1):65-84
My goal in this paper is to revisit interaction ritual theory as a theoretical underpinning of West and Zimmerman’s ‘doing’
gender paradigm in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of what is taking place inside the interactions of men and
women as they ‘do’ gender. Recent work in ritual theory, specifically the work of Bell (Ritual theory, ritual practice, 1992) and Collins (Interaction ritual chains, 2004) expands the role of the individual in the ritual process by conceptualizing ritual as a form of ‘practice’ that can be mobilized in the pursuit of emotional energy. Through the narratives of 24 married couples, I explore how domestic labor functions
as an interaction ritual that is driven by ‘emotional energy’. This emotional energy shapes the localized intentions of men
and women as they ‘do’ gender thus transforming gender into something that we ‘use’ as well as ‘do’. These emotions and intentions
can be seen most clearly through a new ‘window’ of ritual.
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Jennifer A. JohnsonEmail: |
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Volker Scheid 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(4):485-506
This essay examines the treatment of menopausal syndrome by Chinese medicine as a window on how globalisation impacts on the
development of the Chinese medical tradition. The treatment strategies for menopausal syndrome were invented in 1964 and betray
a strong influence of biomedical thinking. Today, they are sold both at home and abroad as products of 2,000 years of clinical
experience. Close examination of textual sources reveals that such attachment is achieved by way of skillfully patching selected
elements of tradition onto each other, creating a narrative that appears coherent and fits biomedical models of menopause,
but is intrinsically fragile. Not only can the patchwork that sustains this narrative easily be deconstructed (as for instance
in this article) but having attached itself to a distinctive interpretation of ageing—universal, biological and chauvinist—it
also opens itself up to all of the criticisms that have been made of biomedical models of menopause insensitive to local variations
in women’s experience. Furthermore, there is no evidence that modernising Chinese medical interpretations of menopause have
increased its effectiveness in clinical practice. Whilst the essay itself does not seek to resolve these tensions, it demonstrates
that the globalisation of Chinese medicine provides it not merely with opportunities but also with important new problems
whose resolution may determine its ongoing development—and indeed survival—as a living tradition.
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Volker ScheidEmail: |
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This study examines the medical profession in post-Soviet society, where women have been in the majority of the physicians
for almost seven decades. It examines pediatricians’ and surgeons’ definitions of the professional skills and qualities needed
for “good” work. Lithuania is used as a case study. Thirty-six semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2005 with male
and female surgeons and pediatricians in Lithuania. The results show that the gender composition of the specialty—surgery
being a male-dominated and pediatrics a female-dominated specialty—tended to influence the way that physicians perceived the
qualities needed for good work. For surgeons, male-gendered qualities were prerequisites for being a good surgeon: physical
strength and being in control. Female surgeons added a female-gendered quality—empathy and compassion—that made them good
surgeons. A good pediatrician had a holistic and empathic approach and an ability to communicate, which were seen as female-gendered
skills. Male pediatricians experienced otherness in this specialty but did not, as women surgeons did, offer a counter discourse
in order to legitimate themselves as being as skilled as women.
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Elianne RiskaEmail: |
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This study examined married men and women’s subjective class identification between 1972 and 2002, and the role of individual
gender ideologies in married persons’ shifting status-evaluation models. We used nationally representative trend data gathered
as part of the General Social Survey. Consistent with previous theoretical predictions, results indicated that overall, husbands
and wives used status-sharing models of status-evaluation. Interestingly, however, in the late 1990s and early 2000s women
shifted toward a status-borrowing model of status-evaluation. Results suggested that gender ideologies did not explain recent
trends in the importance of wives’ and husbands’ class attributes for models of status-evaluation. We concluded that shifts
in hegemonic gender beliefs, rather than individual gender ideologies, are a more likely explanation of changes in couples’
models of status-evaluation.
Harmony Newman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include the sociology of gender, motherhood, and social movements. She is currently working on her dissertation, in which she examines strategic framing in breastfeeding literature and mothers’ interpretations of these strategies. She is a co-author on articles recently published in American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review. Emily Tanner-Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her principal research interests are focused on the social psychological and social contextual factors that influence substance use among adolescent girls. Her recent publications have appeared in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sex Roles. 相似文献
Emily E. Tanner-SmithEmail: |
Harmony Newman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include the sociology of gender, motherhood, and social movements. She is currently working on her dissertation, in which she examines strategic framing in breastfeeding literature and mothers’ interpretations of these strategies. She is a co-author on articles recently published in American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review. Emily Tanner-Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her principal research interests are focused on the social psychological and social contextual factors that influence substance use among adolescent girls. Her recent publications have appeared in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, the Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sex Roles. 相似文献
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Investigations with homeless populations have focused on those living on the streets or in shelters; few have examined phenomena
based on respondents’ self-definitions as homeless or not. This investigation examined similarities and differences among
risk factors (including mental health, substance abuse, religion/spirituality, social support, and risky sexual behaviors)
using two definitions of homelessness: one where place of residence defined individuals as homeless (the ‘objective’ or traditional,
definition) and another where respondents defined themselves as homeless (the ‘subjective’ definition). Data come from the
baseline survey of the NIAAA-funded “Sister-to-Sister” study (n = 339) of heavy-drinking women. Subjectively defined homelessness was associated with higher rates of mental health and substance
use disorders, lower rates of condom use, higher rates of trading sex for food, and less social support. Objectively defined
homelessness was associated with higher rates of drinking in abandoned buildings, on the streets, and in public restrooms,
more new sexual partners, and higher rates of trading sex for heroin and speedballs. Investigations failing to ask for subjective
information may misattribute some factors to homelessness which may overestimate the effect of various factors on homelessness.
Investigators should ask respondents to define their homelessness, or they lose an important dimension of the concept of homelessness.
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Linda B. CottlerEmail: |
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John P. DiMoia 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(3):361-379
This paper looks at the formation of a South Korean national health network by focusing on the introduction of an ambitious
National Family Planning (FP) Program under President Park Chung Hee (1961–1968). The program, influenced in part by the model
of its neighbor, Taiwan (Taichung), saw two pilot studies carried out in Koyang (rural, beginning in 1963) and Sundong-gu
(Seoul metropolitan area, 1964–1966), before being carried to rural areas nationwide. If the program began with numerous echoes
of Japanese colonial practice, it was mobilized specifically in terms of the emerging “modern” South Korean story and the
state’s relationship to the welfare of the individual family unit. Using a range of Korean and English-language sources, the
paper illustrates how the FP effort took: (1) the Koyang study of the effects of mass communication in rural areas as a tentative
blueprint for expanding its national agenda; (2) subsequently enlisted mobile transportation (1966) to expand the scope of
its reach; and finally, mobilized “Mothers’ Clubs” (1968) to penetrate the very fabric of rural society, making women both
the target as well as the primary means of distribution. Ultimately, this strategy of enlisting the active participation of
South Korean women on behalf of the program asked rural women in particular to submit their bodies to the state’s scrutiny,
even as they formed the core of the distribution network. In this respect, FP anticipated the mass mobilization of rural South
Korea in the New Village movement of the 1970s and leaves behind an ambiguous legacy of state control that is only just beginning
to be re-examined.
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John P. DiMoiaEmail: |