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A Tale of Two Annies: Historical Memory, Archives and the Perpetuation of the Sinners to Angels Trope in American Sex Worker History

Gender &History, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract As a historian of sex work, I analyse the power dynamics in the archiving practices and interpretation of sex worker lives, deconstructing the historic and current discourses shaping the possibilities for sex workers. In this article, I explore the legends of nineteenth‐century Madams Annie Cook and Annie Chambers.
Ashley Barnes‐Gilbert
wiley   +1 more source

'It's a Form of Freedom': The experiences of people with disabilities within equestrian sport [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the embodied, gendered experiences of disabled horse‐riders. Drawing on data from five in‐depth interviews with paradressage riders, the ways in which their involvement in elite disability sport impacts upon their sense of identity ...
Anderson E., Brooks R., Connell R. W., Connell R. W., DePauw K. P., DePauw K. P., Garland‐Thomson R., Hargreaves J., Hargreaves J., Howe P. D., Howe P. D., Huang C‐J., Lloyd M., Maestro J. V., Messner M. A., Messner M. A., Morris J., Oliver M., Oliver M., Oliver M., Oliver M., Oliver M., Pronger B., Shakespeare T., Shakespeare T., Stevenson D., Thomas C., Thomas N., Wolf‐Wendel L. E.   +28 more
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From Fragmentation to Liberation [PDF]

Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S 2021), 2021
In this paper, I argue that "Internet fragmentation" as a phenomenon is only meaningful in the context of the US's hegemonic control over the Internet. I propose a broader and, I argue, more richly predictive frame: Internet conflict. I show how this frame provides fresh analytical purchase to some of the questions I list above, using it to ...
arxiv  

A scoping review of non‐binary research in “Australian” social sciences: Community, solidarity, resilience and resisting marginalisation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the ...
Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Chloe Falzon
wiley   +1 more source

Try to be healthy, but don't forgo your masculinity: deconstructing men's health discourse in the media [PDF]

, 2006
The emergence of discourse around men’s health has been evident now for at least 10 years across academic, policy and media texts. However, recent research has begun to question some of the assumptions presented concerning masculinity and men’s health ...
Gough, B
core   +1 more source

Decentralization Paradox: A Study of Hegemonic and Risky ERC-20 Tokens [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
In this work, we explore the class of Ethereum smart contracts called the administrated ERC20 tokens. We demonstrate that these contracts are more owner-controlled and less safe than the services they try to disrupt, such as banks and centralized online payment systems.
arxiv  

The Gender Harassment Experiences of Women Who Play, Coach, Officiate and Manage Sport in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sport remains a male‐dominated industry despite increasing numbers of women participating and working in a variety roles and contexts. In many sports, women report negative experiences and face gendered challenges as elite players, community players, coaches and referees.
Samantha Marshall, Nicola McNeil, Emma‐Louise Seal, Matthew Nicholson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Construction of Adulthood and Gender Identity Among Single Childfree People in Mexico and Japan

SAGE Open, 2019
This article presents the analysis of personal narratives of Mexican and Japanese single and childfree cisgender heterosexual individuals to explore how people who do not comply with heteronormative gender roles related to marriage and parenthood build ...
Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
doaj   +1 more source

Artistic Strategies in the Face of the Questioning of Hegemonic Masculinity in Western Society: From the crisis at the end of 20th Century to its Resurgence Today

Masculinities and Social Change, 2018
This article sets out a study about the capacity of the artistic discourse to question the representation of concepts that support traditional hegemonic masculinity in occidental society and its mechanisms of reproduction, from the crisis of the ...
Alfonso Del Río Almagro, Mariano Manuel Pastrana de la Flor   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source