ABSTRACT With a sample of over 250 films released in the U.S. from 2000 to 2014, and with the benefit of over fifty years of feminist film theorizing on the issue of the characterization of women in both Hollywood and foreign films, our analysis investigates whether a particular film genre – romance movies – has begun to provide a diverse range of depictions of its female characters or has it continued

ABSTRACT Gender differences among undergraduates are mainly found in the prevalence of common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, somatic complaints, and sexual violence. However, there is a lack of information in the literature about gender differences in academic life satisfaction and psychological vulnerability among freshmen. Thus, this study aimed to identify gender differences in demographics

ABSTRACT There is scant research about sexual violence and attitudes towards it in Singapore. This study seeks to understand if Singapore has a rape-supportive culture, by examining how sexual violence is conceptualized, including the rising phenomenon of technology-enabled sexual violence. Facebook comments in response to mainstream media reporting of a well-known case of sexual voyeurism in 2019

ABSTRACT Almost 50 years after the Stonewall riots, queer liberation and police resistance are still inextricably intertwined. International hate crime statistics around the globe show increasingly high rates of LGBTQ+ victimization and criminalization by law enforcement. This qualitative research aims at evaluating whether queer theories of visibility and performativity could serve as useful tools

ABSTRACT Gay couples who have been displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic had to work with communication platforms so that they could process and proceed with their relationships. Using the notion of romantic intimacy as mediated and socially processed information, interviews were analysed in order to describe twelve (12) gay couples’ enacted communication in order to approximate interpersonal romance

ABSTRACT To date, the scholarship on shifts in masculinities has primarily focused on men’s practices, while overlooking how these practices directly impact women and gender relations. In this paper, I examine how women navigate spaces in which men appear to challenge masculinity through an analysis of women’s experiences within the community of adult fans of My Little Pony- a community defined by

ABSTRACT In 2020 the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced it was filing for bankruptcy after haemorrhaging money for years due to insurance and the legal costs associated with sexual abuse lawsuits. This set off a flurry of news articles that continue today. I use a queer feminist analysis to argue that we must look more closely at BSA history to learn how the organization has always been broadly

ABSTRACT How do American men’s attitudes about masculinity differ across intersections of race/ethnicity, immigration status, and education? This paper uses the NSFG 2011-2019, a large survey (n = 17,944) representative of American men aged 15-44. It analyzes white men; Black men; non-immigrant Latinos; and immigrant Latinos, with each broken down by less than a bachelor’s; a bachelor’s degree; or

ABSTRACT We discuss common findings of the two most recent surveys on gender issues among anaesthesiologists. One survey was conducted in Europe and the other included respondents from 111 countries worldwide. With almost 15,000 combined respondents, these are the largest surveys to date in the field and the key overlapping findings must be pointed out. Women anaesthesiologists do aspire to leadership

ABSTRACT Drawing on original qualitative research, I argue that the concept of ‘epistemic injustice’ proposed by the feminist philosopher Miranda Fricker, and located within a long genealogy of Black feminist scholarship, can be used sociologically to help understand the lived experiences of asexual people. I show how participants’ accounts of their asexual subjectivities were frequently denied, dismissed

ABSTRACT This research paper presents a section of findings from a 3-month qualitative study investigating the gendered practices and lived experiences of four Jamaican adolescent inner-city boys. It embraced a narrative inquiry approach anchored in case studies to document and assess how school and community gendered practices were impacting the boys’ gendered behaviours and evolving masculinities

ABSTRACT As is the case in many other countries, Spain faces the challenge of drastically reducing the presence of gender violence. In this paper, we analyse how public digital debate in Spain gives insight into this topic. Specifically, we are interested in analysing the ways in which processes such as polarization or incivility are manifested on social networks. Our thesis is that, in addition to

(2021). Special issue: gender, sexuality, embodiment and physical education. Journal of Gender Studies: Vol. 30, Gender, sexuality, embodiment and Physical Education, pp. 645-647.

ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were two-fold: to analyse the perceptions of girls who have negative experiences of Physical Education (PE) and to compare this experience with their families’ perspectives on the emotional implications of this in their daily lives. Seven girls in the final year of compulsory secondary education in Spain participated in the study. These participants were selected

ABSTRACT Participation in physical education is often shaped by the gendered experiences of students. This study explored how the experiences of gendered bodies shaped participation in physical education (PE) among students in Nova Scotia, Canada. The study consisted of two phases: 1) focus groups with a total of 18 Grade 8 students (7 girls and 11 boys) attending public school in Nova Scotia, and

ABSTRACT Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a significant concern among adolescents. We extend previous research by testing whether gender could moderate the relationship between physical activity (PA) and BD according to adolescents’ body mass index (BMI). 2,026 adolescents; 1,127 boys (13.13 ± 0.92) and 899 girls (13.06 ± 0.86), from 22 high schools in Spain, participated in this cross-sectional study

ABSTRACT There continue to be gender biases and masculinization within Physical Education (PE). Therefore, PE teacher training should challenge current curricular practices and promote transformative pedagogical approaches. We advocate service-learning (SL) which shares its essential principles and research outcomes with feminist pedagogy. This study aims to discover whether generic SL projects, aimed

ABSTRACT Two key value issues in youth sports development intersect in this article: 1) gender equality, and 2) the opportunity for youths to voice their concerns about their own participation. The purpose is to explore ‘gender equality’ as a topic of deliberation in Swedish youth sport, and specifically young sports person’s possibilities for speaking out about gender equality issues. The article

ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore how pedagogies of perfection in fitness content on social media work as a postfeminist technology of the self, exhorting young women to act upon themselves to become ‘perfect’ but hiding the extent to which exercise as aesthetic labour is normatively demanded. We draw on focus group and individual interviews with 37 young women who follow fitness content on Instagram

ABSTRACT This article employs the concept of risk to explore potential synergies and points of contact between gender studies and discard studies. In doing so, the focus is on the risk of leakage, such as pollution, toxic discharges, urine leakage and menstruation. Leakage is of interest to scholars, both within gender studies and discard studies as it concerns the (female) body as well as pollutants

ABSTRACT While the characteristics associated with fathers have taken on more maternal traits more recently, a similar shift has not been observed for maternal characteristics. The role of mother remains stereotyped, and those who do not adhere to this often face criticism. This study examines the impact of parental stereotypes on the cognitive processes associated with reading. A sample of 32 individuals

ABSTRACT Queer migration and counter-movement literature are established subsets of social science scholarship that, together, could illuminate debates around queer rights activism in a migration context. Yet, the intersection of these two sets of scholarship is largely underexplored. Recognizing this gap, a valuable case study can be found in Brazil, which is home to both the only LGBTQI+ refugee

ABSTRACT In this article, we draw on 604 anonymous MeToo testimonies published in Iceland by women in different work sectors. Our main analytical focus is on women’s embodied experiences of sexual violations in the workplace, with an aim to explore how they tackle those violations. We use reflexive thematic analysis, and our first theme demonstrates how the women’s world and world-making capacities

ABSTRACT Vulnerable women and women at risk of social exclusion make up a very large collective. This group includes quite a broad range of personal situations, but all its members share one particular characteristic: gender linked to social vulnerability (poverty). The general objective of this research is to learn what difficulties these women experience, based on discourse analysis applied to their

(2021). Locating sexual politics and gendered lives: East Asian perspectives. Journal of Gender Studies: Vol. 30, Sexual Politics and Gendered Lives: East Asian Perspectives; Guest editors: Stevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho, pp. 503-511.

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes how SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) rights and same-sex partnership are framed and discussed at the macro-level of state discourse as well as the micro-level of individual negotiation of partnership in Japan. Drawing on but reformulating Puar’s concept of homonationalism, we found that the Japanese state projects a progressive national identity that consists

ABSTRACT In this article, we grapple with the ways in which our embodied masculinity affects how we learn about and tell the stories of our older lesbian respondents. Our encounters at the field site have prompted us to think through our methodological practices and epistemological positions, a prompting conditioned by the feminist and queer methodological traditions we are schooled in. Following queer

ABSTRACT Recently, in Korea, young feminists launched the 4B (4非) movement: bihon, bichulsan, biyeonae, bisekseu, meaning the refusal of (heterosexual) marriage, childbirth, romance, and sexual relationships. The 4B movement encompasses not only criticisms of the pro-natalist turn in state policy and protests against it, but also various forms of self-help discussions and practices that are explicitly

ABSTRACT Higher education practitioners concerned with addressing gender on the curriculum inevitably come up against a complex range of institutional barriers. Research presented here, drawing on in-depth staff interviews, sheds light on such ‘gender work’ and the challenges and its complexities in the current moment in the UK context. Through an institutional case study, we identify multiple ongoing

ABSTRACT This discussion paper takes as its starting point the marginal existence of men in the seemingly mono-gendered arena of childbearing, both as midwives and as service users. It seeks to explore how their problematic presence can be both accommodated and rejected within the limits of existing language which manifests itself most rigidly in the word ‘midwife’. I argue that ‘midwife’ has multiple

ABSTRACT The relationship between female labour force participation (FLFP) and economic development is far more complex than it is often described in academic literature. Most studies have relied on income as the only proxy for development. In this paper, we re-examine this relationship from a multidimensional perspective. A principal component analysis method was used in order to cluster the information

ABSTRACT Even though academics are routinely engaged in care activities for their students, colleagues, institutions, and families, care is often overlooked in the culture of academia. This study focuses on how care work affects gender equity in academia, along with work and personal lives of women academics. Through female professors, the study explores the extent, variety, and lived experiences of

ABSTRACT Positioned at the intersection of comics studies and gender studies, this article examines the process in which the ‘performance’ of Ram Devineni’s comic Priya and the Lost Girls (2019), with a honing narrative intertwined with Augmented Reality, sensitizes its readers towards the issue of sex/human trafficking in India. Throughout the enigmatic journey, Priya, the superheroine in the narrative

ABSTRACT This cross-sectional study was conducted during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and aimed to investigate how perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 at the early stages of the pandemic is associated with perceptions of stress and accompanying health issues among different population groups. This study found the top five stressors for the sample population: difficulties/problems with

ABSTRACT Role congruity theory postulates that traditionally there is a mismatch between the communal qualities associated with women and the masculine or agentic qualities considered necessary in a good leader. Thus, female candidates are presumed to be less suitable for leadership roles. The purpose of this study is to discover the conditions under which this (in)congruity may fluctuate. In a hypothetical

ABSTRACT This paper draws upon a qualitative study with 144 young people in seven different research schools in England, exploring how cis-heteronormative homosocial masculinity practices shape digital sexual image exchange. We examine three types of practices: 1) boys asking girls for nudes (pressurized sexting, which we position as online sexual harassment); 2) transactional nude solicitation (boys

ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of intra-household power dynamics particularly on food security and household nutrition. The novelty of this paper is that, beyond the standard approach, engendered intra-household power has been coined as the interactive effect of engendered household headship and ‘voice’ of household members. Further, this paper determines the effects of intra-household power

ABSTRACT In this interview, I discuss with John Berardo his attempt, through his feature length debut Initiation (2020), to respond to cases of sexual abuse, how he calls his viewer to action, how Initiation developed, and its larger commentary. Through the film’s central mystery, Berardo weds together multiple cases of sexual assault and cyberbullying, a fraternity wherein the president wishes to

ABSTRACT The social construction of gender and sexuality is compounded by neoliberalist, individualistic and competitive notions of choice and empowerment. This study draws on small friendship group interviews with 106 self-selecting young people, aged 12–16, in three schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. Young women live their digital sexual lives in a context characterized by feelings of powerlessness

(2021). Non-binary lives: an anthology of intersecting identities. Journal of Gender Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT During the late eighteenth century, the emergence of popular and print culture facilitated the rise of celebrity and created an environment in which women’s bodies were consistently sexualized and materialized. Women increasingly became the targets of public scrutiny as printed texts and images proliferated. This paper traces this distinct kind of celebrity and its relationship with gendered

ABSTRACT African American poet Langston Hughes worked as a press correspondent during the Spanish civil war. This experience left an imprint in his production and particularly in his poetry, giving light to significant advances in his entwinement of race, gender, and identity. The acclaimed diversity of Hughes’ feminine models, and his inclusive stance find difficult accommodation in the poetic corpus

ABSTRACT Written by adults for children, children’s literature plays a significant role in shaping readers’ identities and worldviews, including those relating to gender and death. In two Australian children’s novels, The Shape (2000) by Diane Bates and The Naming of Tishkin Silk (2003) by Glenda Millard, the generic depiction of motherhood meets new representational agendas relating to sudden unexplained

ABSTRACT Higher education and research and innovation in Europe continue to suffer from an indefensible waste of female talent and gender inequality. The European Commission recommends that these organizations adopt gender equality plans (GEPs) and other initiatives for institutional change. However, the levels of readiness, expertise, and experience with such interventions are wide-ranging across

ABSTRACT Sweden has been a pioneer in the construction of comprehensive and progressive multicultural and gender models that have influenced multiple spheres in Sweden’s society for several years. Multiculturalism has been focused on diversity accommodation, while feminism has been concerned with the struggle to achieve gender equality. This has led to essential debates questioning how contemporary

(2021). Gender trauma: healing cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma. Journal of Gender Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Women are now the majority in undergraduate studies in many higher education systems, yet men and women tend to enrol at different rates in different fields of study and institutions. As a result, gender segregation is a prominent feature of contemporary higher education. Most previous studies have focused on gender composition in fields of study. In contrast, we considered college-level study

ABSTRACT The rise of neoliberal governance in the higher education sector and the growing demands that the values of equality be institutionally embedded represent two potentially conflicting trends. In this context, the steady deployment of a neoliberal agenda to organizations has come to interfere with the work–life balance. Whereas the demands of the neoliberal university rely upon a hegemonic work-centric

ABSTRACT This paper examines the issue of the low participation of women in STEM careers and contributes to work on the gender gap in STEM in two ways. First, we propose a theoretical framework that integrates the factors influencing girls’ participation in STEM, proposed by UNESCO in 2017, and the concepts of cultural, identity and gender stereotypes. Second, we apply this framework to assess the

(2021). The tragedy of heterosexuality. Journal of Gender Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Although Meghan Markle has been both championed and challenged for negotiating extant representations of marriage and romance, race, class and feminism, more recently the former actress found herself at the centre of a debate over in/fertility and ‘geriatric’ motherhood. Using Markle as a case in point, the women’s magazine, health, beauty and celebrity entertainment sector demonstrated concern

ABSTRACT The UK Athena SWAN (AS) Charter was extended to Irish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in 2015 to provide a catalyst for change towards gender equality and to transform institutional cultures, through AS Gender Action Plans. This paper charts: the journey of Athena SWAN to Ireland; its rate of adoption by Irish HEIs; and its impact on the sector. Drawing upon the perspective and contribution

(2021). Social construction of sex work: ethnography of escort agencies in Poland. Journal of Gender Studies. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Muslim female subjectivity in Pakistan has mostly been defined through the dualistic perspectives of secular and religious standpoints. This paper, however, aims to examine and foreground the agentive efficacy of subjectivity, which is neither exclusively secular nor religious. Mohsin Hamid’s novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia presents a nuanced literary depiction of the Muslim female

ABSTRACT The current study examined the influence of gender on perceived credibility in an international drug trafficking setting. Two hundred law students (approximately half female) assessed a suspect’s credibility in a drug trafficking investigation. The participants read a transcript provided by either a male or a female suspect and rated a suspect as truthful/untruthful and their confidence level

ABSTRACT The legal mandate to mainstream gender equality in Spain’s universities has led to the establishment of gender equality units and the adoption of gender equality policy plans and protocols against sexual harassment. This research looks at how gender equality policies have been implemented within universities and what resisting and facilitating factors have hindered and promoted their implementation

ABSTRACT Women continue to remain underrepresented in geoscience degree attainment. Several disciplines (specifically geology) require participation in ‘field experiences’ in which students and faculty engage for weeks in a remote location to study geologic processes. Although any student is welcome to participate, studies find evidence of these outdoor spaces embodying a masculine domain. In this

ABSTRACT This interview focuses on Shannon Sullivan’s pragmatist feminist views on transactional bodies, racism, sexism, identity and white privilege. Referencing Sullivan’s most important works – Living Across and Through Skins, Revealing Whiteness, Good White People and White Privilege – this conversation draws attention to the complexities of racial discrimination and how they often relate to sexism

ABSTRACT Disasters are experienced by, and responded to, differently based on the gender of those experiencing these. The responsibilities of women, particularly mothers, are amplified during times of pressure. This study investigated the experiences of teaching-mothers in Pakistan during the Covid-19 pandemic to understand the challenges they faced as professionals and as mothers. The data were collected

ABSTRACT In October 2017, Raya Sarkar, a 24-year-old law student from India, posted a crowdsourced list on Facebook of male Indian academics who allegedly harassed women. This led to the start of the #MeToo movement in India, where universities became key spaces of discussion, debate and activism. Due to failures of both the criminal justice system and the described capitalist, patriarchal, casteist