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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source

Post Secularism and the Woman Question [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
I will discuss the “woman question in post secularism” by offering my critique of Saba Mahmood’s book “Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject”.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

‘Cubs of Wall Street’: Cocaine Use in Top‐Boy Culture

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although cocaine use is rising among youth in many countries, little is known about the social context and its influence on this new pattern of use. Drawing on a theoretical framework of class, gender, and peer‐status dynamics and extensive data from personal interviews, we investigate how cocaine use is culturally situated and socially ...
Rikke Tokle, Willy Pedersen
wiley   +1 more source

Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2023, China introduced regulatory amendments to birth certificates and the hukou (household registration) system, aiming to boost birth rates and offset an aging population. However, the implications of these changes on marriage and family support amidst population policy shifts remain underexplored.
Eileen Y. H. Tsang
wiley   +1 more source

Anti‐LGBTIQ rhetoric and electoral outcomes under the shadow of war: Evidence from Poland's 2023 parliamentary election

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The existing literature debates how war can precipitate shifts in electoral coalitions. However, what remains unclear are the underlying cultural contestations affected by war, including how homo‐ and transphobia have been weaponized politically as a key social division during wartime elections.
PHILLIP M. AYOUB   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feminist livelihood studies: Mapping future directions

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Feminist approaches to livelihoods deeply enrich development studies by focusing on gender, social difference, intrahousehold considerations, and other manifestations of power. In this paper, we suggest three pillars of feminist livelihood studies that advance debates in this field.
Ann M. Oberhauser, Jennifer C. Langill
wiley   +1 more source

The house of Windsor: Accentuating the heteronormativity in the tax incentives for procreation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor, many seem to believe that the fight for marriage equality at the federal level is over and that any remaining work in this area is at the state level.
Infanti, AC
core   +1 more source

Anti‐Imperial Autoethnographies of Family Separation: Feminist Solidarities Against Imperial Bordering in the UK

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Anti‐imperial autoethnography is an important practice for critiquing and reflecting upon encounters with imperial bordering and its junctions with the neoliberal‐corporate university. In this article, we analyse our children's visa rejections to the UK, where we work and study as immigrant academics.
Amber Murrey, Wesam Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

Heteronormativity and the exclusion of bisexuality in psychology

open access: yes, 2007
About the book: There has been a recent explosion of interest in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Perspective Psychology amongst students and academics, and this interest is predicted to continue to rise.
Barker, Meg
core   +1 more source

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