Gender & Society current issue

Cultural Images and the Health of African American Women

Hill, S. A. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:44 PST

Gender on a New Frontier: Mexican Migration in the Rural Mountain West

Schmalzbauer, L. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:44 PST

In this article, the author draws from ethnographic field work with Mexican migrants in southwestern Montana, an emerging rural settlement of the Mountain West, to analyze the ways in which context of reception affects gender relations. The author constructs the analysis by looking at gender in terms of three primary elements of migrant incorporation: (1) employment, (2) geography, and (3) culture. The author finds that in Montana traditional gender relations are typically fortified or reintroduced through the migration process, often to the detriment of women. Yet women remain optimistic about their lives because they believe that in Montana they can be better mothers, providing safety and opportunities for their children that they could not provide elsewhere. The data challenge theorizing from urban settlements and highlight the significance of context of reception for constructions of gender and women’s experiences of power.

How Will We Recognize Each Other as Mapuche?: Gender and Ethnic Identity Performances in Argentina

Warren, S. D. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:44 PST

This article builds on the literature of "doing" identities through a case study of indigenous Mapuche people in Argentina. Argentina is a unique place to study indigenous identities because they are not rigidly defined by the state or by Argentine society, thus making social interactions more visible. My analysis shows that "doing" identities is an inherently intersectional process. Mapuche women engage in gendered interactions to create an authentic indigenous identity, often for the purpose of gaining rights, emphasizing traditional clothing to become "icons of tradition." Yet, their interactions and choices about how and when to use traditional clothing highlight the paradoxical ways tradition works. My analysis suggests that tradition invokes a historical rigidity that constrains women within certain gender expectations, but it also invokes a sense of community wholeness that can empower women to define new ways of "doing" gendered indigeneity.

A Tale of Two Technologies: HPV Vaccination, Male Circumcision, and Sexual Health

Carpenter, L. M., Casper, M. J. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:44 PST

This article brings insights from feminist science and technology studies to bear on recent public debates over the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which prevents many cervical cancers, and male circumcision as potential HIV preventive. In the United States, attempts to mandate HPV vaccination have activated intense concerns about female "promiscuity," whereas talk of promoting circumcision against HIV has triggered scant anxiety about American boys’ sexuality. The authors show how intersections among gender, sexuality, race, and age have shaped responses to these two containment technologies—and how the technologies’ deployment both relies on and reproduces meanings of gender and sexuality that constitute the omnipresent "double standard." The analysis develops an original feminist sociology of containment, explicating how social relations shape the innovation, reinvention, and use of technologies to contain particular sorts of bodies, fluids, and sexual practices—by whom, under what conditions, and for what purposes.

Where Credit Is Due: Assessing the Visibility of Articles Published in Gender & Society with Google Scholar

Jacobs, J. A. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:44 PST

Gender & Society is the leading specialty journal in the sociology of gender, as indicated by its high ranking in the ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Reports. The ISI system, however, does not track citations appearing in books, and thus a significant potential source of references for Gender & Society is missed. This article reports the results of an analysis of highly cited articles that compares their visibility in Google Scholar to that documented in the ISI data system. Google Scholar captures more than twice as many references to these Gender & Society articles than does the ISI Web of Knowledge. The analysis shows that the incremental coverage is greater for Gender & Society than for several other prominent sociology journals. The absolute and relative standing of Gender & Society would improve if a more comprehensive system of tracking citations were employed.

Book Review: White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture, 2nd edition. By Chrys Ingraham. New York: Routledge, 2008, 304 pp., $130 (cloth), $34.95 (paper)

Samblanet, S. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:44 PST

Book Review: Out in the Storm: Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers. By Gail A. Caputo. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008, 231 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper)

Swan, H. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:44 PST

Book Review: The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse. By Paula Saukko. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008, 142 pp., $59.50 (hardcover); $19.95 (paper)

Waggoner, M. R. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:45 PST

Book Review: Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South: An Oral History. By E. Patrick Johnson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008, 584 pp., $35.00 (hardcover)

Thomas, H. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:45 PST

Book Review: Taking the Stand: Rape Survivors and the Prosecution of Rapists. By Amanda Konradi. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007, 240 pp., $49.95 (hardcover)

Maier, S. L. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:45 PST

Book Review: Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations. By Jane Ward. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008, 178 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper)

Collins, D. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:45 PST

Book Review: Women and Migration in the U.S.--Mexico Border. Edited by Denise Segura and Patricia Zavella. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 595 pp., $29.95 (cloth)

Garcia, A. M. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:45 PST

Book Review: Taking Charge of Breast Cancer. By Julia A. Ericksen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, 336 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper). The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism. By Maren Klawiter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 408 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper)

Yoo, G. J. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:45 PST

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:24:45 PST