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Hybrid Femininities: Making Sense of Sorority Rankings and Reputation
Gender & Society ( IF 4.314 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 , DOI: 10.1177/0891243220968882
Simone Ispa-Landa 1 , Mariana Oliver 1
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Gender researchers have only recently begun to identify how women perceive and explain the costs and benefits associated with different femininities. Yet status hierarchies among historically white college sororities are explicit and cannot be ignored, forcing sorority women to grapple with constructions of feminine worth. Drawing on interviews with women in these sororities (N = 53), we are able to capture college women’s attitudes toward status rankings that prioritize adherence to narrow models of gender complementarity. Sorority chapters were ranked according to women’s perceived heterosexual appeal to elite men. Women believed that top-ranked sororities conferred social power whereas middle- and bottom-ranked sororities offered greater freedom from policing over members’ bodies, fashion, and socializing. However, middle- and bottom-ranked sororities sometimes sought to rise in the rankings. When this occurred, existing members were marginalized, and a new pledge class with a greater tolerance for socializing with high-status “rapey” fraternities was sought. Women’s discussions of sorority rankings show evidence of a hybrid femininity that fuses practices from traditional models of gender complementarity and more recent models of women’s empowerment.



中文翻译:

混合女性气质:理解排行榜和声誉

性别研究人员直到最近才开始确定女性如何看待和解释与不同女性气质相关的成本和收益。然而,历史悠久的白人大学女学生中的地位等级是明确的,不能忽视,这迫使女学生们不得不努力解决女性化的问题。通过对这些社会性别中的女性进行访谈(N = 53),我们能够捕捉到大学女性对地位排名的态度,这些态度优先考虑遵循狭窄的性别互补模型。根据女性对精英男性的异性吸引力,对“悲伤”章节进行排名。妇女认为,排名靠前的社团可以赋予社会权力,而排名中下的社团可以提供更大的自由度,可以不受成员身体,时尚和社交活动的影响。然而,排在中间的和排在最后的排他队有时会寻求提高排名。发生这种情况时,现有成员被边缘化,并寻求一种新的认捐类别,该类别对具有较高地位的“ rapey”兄弟会的社交活动具有更大的容忍度。妇女对社会地位排名的讨论表明,混合了女性气质,融合了传统的性别互补模式和最近的妇女赋权模式中的做法。

更新日期:2020-10-29
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