Article
Political Science
Philipp Koeker, Nele Weiher, Anja Schollmeyer
Summary: Systems of state decorations are indicative of social norms and power differentials, and there are clear gender disparities in these systems. While previous studies have examined gender inequality in individual countries, there is a lack of comparative and cross-national analysis. This article provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the gender gap in state decorations in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from 1994 to 2020. The findings show that women received significantly fewer awards than men across the three countries, with limited progress over time. Even when women and men were recognized in equal numbers, women were still underrepresented in higher classes of awards and were more likely to be recognized for achievements in stereotypically feminine fields. The findings contribute to research on gendered institutions and highlight the importance of award bestowals as an indicator of sociopolitical phenomena.
Article
History
Noah Lubinsky
Summary: This article proposes a methodology for reaching historicity by tracing the use of synthetic testosterone in gender affirming care for trans people. It demonstrates the usefulness of this method by analyzing mentions of synthetic testosterone in the South African Medical Journal from 1963 to 2003 and its relationship with the state and the law in South Africa, particularly in the advocacy efforts of the Cape Town Transsexual/Transgender Groups for self-identification.
GENDER AND HISTORY
(2023)
Article
Management
Pamela Agata Suzanne, Lea Katharina Reiss
Summary: This paper investigates the process of sharing vulnerability in solidarity through collective autoethnographic exploration. It focuses on the roles of sharer and supporter, as well as the emotions, reasons, actions, reactions, and consequences involved in sharing vulnerability. The authors reflect on their personal experiences with COVID-related vulnerability and gendered vulnerability as mothers during lockdown in academia. They find that sharing these vulnerabilities, finding support, and sharing with the work environment can be empowering. Their insights contribute to the existing literature on gendered vulnerability and feminist solidarity, offering an embodied and relational perspective on the process and roles involved in sharing vulnerability and feminist writing.
GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION
(2023)
Article
Management
Sheena J. Vachhani
Summary: This paper explores the complexities and tensions of digital feminist activism, with a focus on its impact on social change. It emphasizes the transformation of transnational feminist resistance and praxis through digital activism and discusses the ways in which feminist politics are created and enacted in digitally mediated environments. The paper also highlights the significance of new forms of feminist consciousness that are built on affective and embodied engagements.
GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION
(2023)
Article
History
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Summary: This article discusses the intersections between gender, disability, and care labor in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. Although slaveowners devalued aged and disabled bondswomen, they were crucial to the healthscape of the plantation.
GENDER AND HISTORY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lee R. Eshelman, Selime R. Salim, Prachi H. Bhuptani, Mariam Saad
Summary: Black women report higher rates of adult sexual assault and sexual objectification compared to White women. Sexual objectification racial microaggressions amplify the positive relation between ASA and PTSD symptoms, specifically symptoms related to cognition and mood. It is essential for clinicians to assess for race-specific stressors during trauma interventions to reduce mental health disparities.
PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Sydney Nicolla
Summary: This study is the first to use a social psychological approach to understand willingness to engage with digital feminist activism (DFA). It provides important context for scholars to explore and promote engagement with digital feminist movements. The findings show that higher support for feminism, higher feminist-identifying social networks, higher personal feminist identification, and feminine gender identity are associated with willingness to participate in DFA.
FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Communication
Mengmeng Liu
Summary: This research examines the development and impact of the #MeToo movement in China, where Chinese women and feminists have managed to reassert their bodies and voices in online and offline spaces despite government and platform censorship and misogynistic digital culture. It analyzes three themes of #MeToo activism: visceral accounts of rape culture, a non-domestic feminist counterpublic, and networked solidarity. The study contributes to a deeper understanding of the multifaceted nature of digital feminist activism.
FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
(2023)
Article
History
Alexis A. Ferguson
Summary: This article examines the theorisation of natural laws in mid-nineteenth century British physiology and argues that it creates a 'preliminary cisness' in Victorian sexual science. By examining George Eliot's Adam Bede alongside works by Herbert Spencer and George Henry Lewes, the article suggests that Eliot presents social sympathy as an alternative to the ethical risks of pre-cis sex.
GENDER AND HISTORY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Eleanor Krassen Covan
HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Madeline Brodt, Tangela Roberts
Summary: This paper discusses the impact of White supremacy, ableism, and U.S. policing on psychology, emphasizing the need for psychologists to divest from carceral White supremacist practices in mental healthcare. It highlights the unequal value placed on Black lives and the lasting effects of White supremacy and ableism on the perception of disabled individuals. The paper argues that both the U.S. policing system and the mental health field have a history of controlling marginalized bodies, and provides recommendations and action items for therapists to unlearn harmful practices stemming from these issues.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Marie Isabelle Weissflog, Lusine Grigoryan
Summary: Gender categorization and stereotyping can lead to discrimination. This study investigates the categorization and stereotyping of gender-ambiguous targets based on facial features and behavioral information. The findings suggest that face is the most influential factor for categorization, with unambiguous faces being mostly categorized as male or female. However, when faces are ambiguous, additional information significantly affects categorization, leading to a higher likelihood of nonbinary categorization.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Ayla Oden, Nichole M. Bauer, Ke Jiang, Lance Porter
Summary: This research investigates the conditions under which women's political discussion increases, finding that it is most likely to occur when gender is a highly salient political topic. This increase is primarily seen among resource-poor women and women of color.
Article
Women's Studies
Nitza Berkovitch, Shlomit Manor
Summary: This article examines the changing relations between familism, individualism, and neoliberalism through the lens of grandmothers' childcare work. Based on interviews with retired women in Israel, the study investigates how grandmothers navigate between family ideologies and individualistic cultural imperatives while challenging the invisibility of their work. The study argues that neoliberalism strengthens family and familism, while familism facilitates the neoliberal labor market and frees the state from supporting families with children.
Article
Women's Studies
Romina Wainberg
Summary: This article argues that the concept of 'perspectival anthropology' is a philosophical reification of Amerindian cosmological dynamics, which disregards the transcendence of women and centers around male perspectives.
Article
Women's Studies
Talia Meer, Alex Mueller
Summary: In Africa, the intersection of coloniality/modernity and the freedom or lack thereof for queer people presents unique challenges, making queerness an important area for transformative struggles. The Qintu Collab project, a collaboration by queer African youth, utilized graphic stories and podcasts to link academic scholarship, art, and activism, with a specific queer feminist perspective aimed at decolonizing methodology. The project explored the potential of participatory creative research as a decolonial practice, addressing issues such as shared decision-making, ideological differences, and the influence of imagined audience on collaborative processes. The learnings from this project are significant for anyone undertaking participatory research collaboration.
Article
Women's Studies
Odette Zero, Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, Roberta E. Goldman
Summary: This paper examines the barriers that make it difficult for undocumented Spanish-speaking immigrants to disclose intimate partner violence in healthcare settings, including limited opportunities, fear of deportation and separation from children.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(2023)
Book Review
Sociology
Janani Umamaheswar
Article
Women's Studies
Asako Nakai
Summary: Virginia Woolf argues that the material basis is crucial for women to survive and express their political opinions. She proposes three strategies, including fighting for independent income and state payment for reproductive work, opposing the patriarchal wage system, and organizing a separate women's group. This article examines the materialist aspect of Woolf's feminism and its impact on the Wages for Housework movement in the 1970s.
Article
Women's Studies
Rebecca Campbell, Katie Gregory, Rachael Goodman-Williams, Jasmine Engleton, McKenzie Javorka
Summary: In this study, survivors and advocates were interviewed about their experiences of being notified by the police, and their concerns about notifications conducted without an advocate present were expressed.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(2023)