Gender & Society recent issues

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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Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options

Hamilton, L., Armstrong, E. A. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Current work on hooking up—or casual sexual activity on college campuses—takes an individualistic, "battle of the sexes" approach and underestimates the importance of college as a classed location. The authors employ an interactional, intersectional approach using longitudinal ethnographic and interview data on a group of college women’s sexual and romantic careers. They find that heterosexual college women contend with public gender beliefs about women’s sexuality that reinforce male dominance across both hookups and committed relationships. The four-year university, however, also reflects a privileged path to adulthood. The authors show that it is characterized by a classed self-development imperative that discourages relationships but makes hooking up appealing. Experiences of this structural conflict vary. More privileged women struggle to meet gender and class guidelines for sexual behavior, placing them in double binds. Less privileged women find the class beliefs of the university foreign and hostile to their sexual and romantic logics.

Heteronormativity and Homonormativity as Practical and Moral Resources: The Case of Lesbian and Gay Elders

Rosenfeld, D. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Studies of heteronormativity have emphasized its normative content and repressive functions, but few have considered the strategic use of heteronormative and homonormative precepts to shape sexual selves, public identities, and social relations. Adopting an interactionist approach, this article analyzes interviews with homosexual elders to uncover their use of heteronormative premises (specifically, the presumption of heterosexuality, and the gender binary) to pass as heterosexual. Informants also used homonormative precepts, grounded in a postwar, pre-gay liberation assimilationist homosexual politics they adopted in their early years and maintained in later life, to justify passing and to frame their understanding and evaluation of past and present homosexual practices. Viewed through a homonormative lens, heteronormativity provided the tools for personal survival in a hostile society and for the collective production of a respectable homosexual culture. Informants’ strategic use of heteronormativity can help explain heteronormativity’s survival despite the incoherence and fragility of its content.

"We're All Sisters": Bridging and Legitimacy in the Women's Antiprison Movement

Lawston, J. M. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Claims to sisterhood are premised on women’s experiences with gender oppression, and many have argued that such claims ignore differences among women. Many have therefore dismissed sisterhood as a legitimate claim to solidarity, failing to examine the ways that sisterhood continues to be utilized by feminist activists. This article examines qualitative data from a study of a white, middle-class, feminist, antiracist organization that uses the language of sisterhood in its work on behalf of incarcerated women, who are predominantly of color and poor. The author finds not only that sisterhood is simultaneously rooted in women’s experiences with oppression and pride and pleasure but that such language serves complex functions in feminist organizations that seek to work across difference. Beyond its use in creating and sustaining solidarity, sisterhood is utilized to bridge differences in race, class, and life experiences between women and to generate feelings of legitimacy amongst white, middle-class activists.

Playing, Shopping, and Working as Rock Musicians: Masculinities in "De-Skilled" and "Re-Skilled" Organizations

Sargent, C. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Masculinities vary by organizational context, demonstrating that organizational culture shapes the gendering of work even within the same occupation. The author draws on comparative and ethnographic data collected in two retail environments (large and small musical instrument stores) to understand how a common organizational culture is differently gendered by the organization of work. In these music stores, organizational culture is driven by masculinist fantasies of the rock musician lifestyle. As the products and knowledge of the rock musician lifestyle are made popularly accessible and retail work is deskilled, a style of masculinity based on fraternization and competition takes the place of formal knowledge and experience—reaffirming rock musician as a populist, but exclusively male identity. The article concludes with a consideration of how the de-skilling of retail work reproduces gendered interactions that affirm men’s control over work and its products, even as retail work is presumed to be feminizing.

"It's Way out of my League": Low-income Women's Experiences of Medicalized Infertility

Bell, A. V. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

The cultural construction of motherhood represents women of low socioeconomic status (SES) as excessively fertile, placing them outside of the infertility discourse. Previous research on infertility reinforces poor women’s exclusion by focusing on the experiences of women receiving medical treatment, typically women of high SES. In this article, the author explores how 20 poor and working-class women negotiate their experiences of infertility. In-depth interviews expose the contextual experiences of infertility among women of low SES, specifically revealing the structural inequality apparent within those experiences. The women are not passive objects of dominant discourses; they are active subjects in resisting, redefining, and accepting the discourses according to their contexts. Women of low SES are outsiders—within to dominant understandings and resolutions to infertility. Their unique insights not only provide a more nuanced understanding of infertility but they also begin to deconstruct the stratified system of reproduction.

Book Review: Adoption in a Color-Blind Society. By Pamela Anne Quiroz. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 144 pp., $60.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)

Roschelle, A. R. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Book Review: Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System. By Jennifer A. Reich. New York: Routledge, 2005, 368 pp., $130.00 (cloth), $39.95 (paper)

Harris, D. A. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Book Review: The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Knowledge Travels across Borders. By Kathy Davis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 296 pp., $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper)

Blum, L. M., Elson, J. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Book Review: Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness. By Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs. New York University Press, 2009, 272 pp., $22.00 (paper)

Andersen, M. L. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Book Review: Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism, and International Aid in the Dominican Republic. By Light Carruyo. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, 136 pp., $45.00 (cloth)

Bandy, J. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Book Review: Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships. By Geoffrey L. Greif. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 320 pp., $29.95 (cloth)

Price, J. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

Book Review: The Gender Gap in College. By Linda J. Sax. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008, 352 pp., $40.00 (cloth)

Jacobs, J. A. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 PDT

The Reaches of Heteronormativity: An Introduction

Ward, J., Schneider, B. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals," Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality

Schilt, K., Westbrook, L. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

This article brings together two case studies that examine how nontransgender people, "gender normals," interact with transgender people to highlight the connections between doing gender and heteronormativity. By contrasting public and private interactions that range from nonsexual to sexualized to sexual, the authors show how gender and sexuality are inextricably tied together. The authors demonstrate that the criteria for membership in a gender category are significantly different in social versus (hetero)sexual circumstances. While gender is presumed to reflect biological sex in all social interactions, the importance of doing gender in a way that represents the shape of one's genitals is heightened in sexual and sexualized situations. Responses to perceived failures to fulfill gender criteria in sexual and sexualized relationships are themselves gendered; men and women select different targets for and utilize gendered tactics to accomplish the policing of supposedly natural gender boundaries and to repair breaches to heteronormativity.

"We're There and Queer": Homonormative Mobility and Lived Experience among Gay Expatriates in Manila

Collins, D. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

This article offers an analysis of lived experiences of transnational mobility for gay-identified expatriates who reside in Manila, the Philippines. Drawing from in-depth interviewing and discourse analysis of eight cases, the author argues that homonormative mobility organizes gay men's travel, even as gay expatriates work to reimagine themselves through their travel and face destabilizing experiences in transnational spaces. The author offers a theorization of homonormative mobility to explain discourses of normative gender, race-nation, and desire in gay travel. Specifically, she argues that expatriates describe their mobility as (1) an escape from the heteronormative controls they face at home, (2) masculine access to freeing places in "foreign" playgrounds, (3) an act of homo-orientalist desire of Filipino men and spaces, (4) a desirable experience that builds their own self-confidence, and (5) troubling for their self-perceptions.

Making Heteronormative Reconciliations: The Story of Romantic Love, Sexuality, and Gender in Mixed-Orientation Marriages

Wolkomir, M. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

As a central organizing institution in society, marriage presents an idealized package for sociosexual relations that reproduces and intertwines gender power dynamics and heterosexual desire. This package is sustained, in part, by the ideology of romantic love—a set of beliefs that constructs only a particular configuration of sexual and gender practices as natural, normal, and right. Drawing on interviews with 45 people, this study examines how people negotiate marital relationships that do not fit into this normative configuration— mixed-orientation (e.g., straight and gay) marriages. Participants' resolutions to these situations, whether they divorced or created asexual or sexual nonmonogamous marriages, were heavily shaped by their belief in the ideology of romantic love, illustrating how heteronormative relations can be held in place by normalizing ideologies.

"Now Why do you Want to Know about That?": Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth

Garcia, L. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Research has revealed that sex education policies are informed by national and local struggles over the meanings and consequences of gender, race, sexuality, and class categories. However, few studies have considered how policies are enacted in the classroom production of sex education to support or challenge gender, racial, sexual, and class hierarchies. This article draws on data obtained through semistructured in-depth interviews with 40 Latina youth (20 Mexican origin, 20 Puerto Rican) to explore how heteronormativity, sexism, and racism operate together to structure the content and delivery of school-based sex education. Findings suggest that some Latina youth encounter racialized heterogendered constructions and experiences that limit their access to sex-education-related information and reinforce existing inequalities.

School Culture and the Well-Being of Same-Sex-Attracted Youth

Wilkinson, L., Pearson, J. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

This study assesses how variations in heteronormative culture in high schools affect the well-being of same-sex-attracted youth. The authors focus on the stigmatization of same-sex attraction (rather than identity or behavior) to better understand how heteronormativity may marginalize a wide range of youth. Specifically, the authors use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine how variation across schools in football participation, religious attendance, and urban locale affects same-sex-attracted adolescents' depressive symptoms, self-esteem, fighting, and academic failure. The results suggest that though same-sex-attracted youth are at greater risk for decreased well-being, these youth are at higher risk in nonurban schools and in schools where football and religion have a larger presence. Results vary for boys and girls: The urban locale of a school has a larger impact for boys, while school religiosity has a greater impact for girls.

Book Review: New Choices, New Families: How Lesbians Decide About Motherhood. By Nancy J. Mezey. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 187 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)

Schapiro, N. A. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Book Review: Damaged Goods? Women Living with Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases. By Adina Nack. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008, 249 pp., $19.75 (paper)

Alston, N. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Book Review: Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. By Michael Kimmel. New York: HarperCollins, 2008, 332 pp., $25.95 (cloth)

Bridges, T. S. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Book Review: Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience. By Laura Mamo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 320 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)

Franklin, S. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Book Review: Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. By Deborah Siegel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 224 pp., $14.95 (paper)

Kalish, R. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Book Review: Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies. By Chloe E. Bird and Patricia P. Rieker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 256 pp., $85.00 (cloth); $25.99 (paper)

Simonstein, F. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Book Review: Intimate Partner Violence. By Angela J. Hattery. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008, 222 pp., $75.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper)

Coston, B. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:50 PDT

Defining Gendered Oppression in U.S. Newspapers: The Strategic Value of "Female Genital Mutilation"

Wade, L. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

According to the logic of the gendered modernity/tradition binary, women in traditional societies are oppressed and women in modern societies liberated. While the binary valorizes modern women, it potentially erases gendered oppression in the West and undermines feminist movements on behalf of Western women. Using U.S. newspaper text, I ask whether female genital cutting (FGC) is used to define women in modern societies as liberated. I find that speakers use FGC to both uphold and challenge the gendered modernity/ tradition binary. Speakers use FGC to denigrate non-Western cultures and trivialize the oppressions that U.S. women typically encounter, but also to make feminist arguments on behalf of women everywhere. I argue that in addition to examining how culturally imperialist logics are reproduced, theorists interested in feminist postcolonialism should turn to the distribution of such logics, emphasizing the who, where, when, and how of reinscription of and resistance to such narratives.

Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films

Martin, K. A., Kazyak, E. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

In this article, the authors examine accounts of heterosexuality in media for children. The authors analyze all the G-rated films grossing $100 million dollars or more between 1990 and 2005 and find two main accounts of heterosexuality. First, heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic love relationships as exceptional, powerful, magical, and transformative. Second, heterosexuality outside of relationships is constructed through portrayals of men gazing desirously at women's bodies. Both of these findings have implications for our understanding of heteronormativity. The first is seemingly at odds with theories that claim that heterosexuality's mundane, assumed, everyday ordinariness lends heteronormativity its power. In fact, the authors suggest heterosexual exceptionalism may extend the pervasiveness of heterosexuality and serve as a means of inviting investment in it. The second offers ways to begin to think about how heteronormativity is gendered and racialized.

The Impact of Emotional Opportunities on the Emotion Cultures of Feminist Organizations

Guenther, K. M. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

A fundamental debate within feminist scholarship and activism centers on what relationship feminism should have with the state. This article explores this debate empirically by examining differences in the emotion cultures of a state-dependent and an autonomous feminist organization in postsocialist eastern Germany. The comparative analysis demonstrates how organizations construct specific emotion cultures in response to emotional opportunities and constraints created by their relationships with state institutions. The state-dependent organization adopts a less expressive emotion culture that assures broad public appeal and future state support, but does not build critical consciousness among participants. In contrast, the autonomous organization encourages displays of feelings as part of consciousness raising, creating an emotion culture that reduces public appeal but produces especially loyal and active constituents.

Gender Ideology Construction: A Life Course and Intersectional Approach

Vespa, J. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

Using life course and intersectional perspectives, this study examines how changes in life experiences such as marriage, parenthood, and work are associated with changes in individuals' gender ideology. Using longitudinal survey data and fixed effects, findings suggest that exposure to these experiences influences gender ideology, though with greater variation than previous work has detected. Marriage exerts an egalitarian influence on Blacks but a less egalitarian one on whites. Parenthood has a less egalitarian effect for all married parents but an egalitarian one for most unmarried parents. These findings suggest that gender ideology is dynamic and life experiences are important sources of change. Furthermore, this change depends on individuals' race-gender categories and the configuration of life events to which they are exposed. These nuanced findings amend past work by better identifying for whom and under which conditions life experiences shape gender ideology. In doing so, this study illustrates how the conceptual and methodological approaches help us understand gender ideology construction by revealing substantial variation that went undetected in past work.

Enterprising Women: A Comparison of Women's and Men's Small Business Networks

Loscocco, K., Monnat, S. M., Moore, G., Lauber, K. B. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

This study demonstrates the importance of social context to the study of networks vital to business success. Results from analyses of the personal and business characteristics associated with different types of networks, a topic that has been neglected in past research, show the importance of structural perspectives emphasizing that women and men in the same situations have similar networks. Yet there are some network differences even among these women and men who operate the same kinds of businesses. This suggests that insights from gender construction perspectives should be integrated into network and other gender inequality studies.

Book Review: Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. By Regina Kunzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, 371 pp., $29.00 (cloth)

Kennedy, A. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

Book Review: She's Got a Gun. By Nancy Floyd. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008, 248 pp., $76.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper)

Whitney, C. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

Book Review: Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology. By Maureen McNeil. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, 200 pp., $150.00 (cloth)

Kramer, L. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

Book Review: Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation. By Jieyu Liu. London: Routledge, 2007, 178 pp., $160.00 (cloth)

Fuller, E. V. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

Book Review: Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics. By Moya Lloyd. Malden, MA: Polity, 2007, 201 pp., $90.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)

Crawley, S. L. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

Book Review: Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change. Edited by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007, 328 pp., $86.50 (cloth); $39.95 (paper)

Henning, A. D. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT

Book Review: Global Perspectives on Gender Equality: Reversing the Gaze. Edited by Naila Kabeer, Agneta Stark, and Edda Magnus. New York: Routledge, 2008, 312 pp., $95.00 (cloth). Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia: The Limits of Political Ambition? Edited by Kari Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn, and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2008, 256 pp., $125.00 (cloth)

Valiente, C. — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:08:22 PDT