A feminist revisiting of the insider/outsider debate: The "outsider phenomenon" in rural Iowa
In: Qualitative sociology, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 83-106
ISSN: 1573-7837
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In: Qualitative sociology, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 83-106
ISSN: 1573-7837
In: Rural sociology, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 110-135
ISSN: 1549-0831
Abstract Contradictions in agrarian ideology are revealed through an analysis of social dimensions of economic restructuring in rural Iowa. Data are culled from field observations and in‐depth interviews with white European American residents. How rural residents cope with and make sense of the changes within their communities are two interrelated dimensions of social restructuring. The research highlights a perception of sharpening social and economic divisions within two small communities. The social and economic changes challenged residents' self‐definitions, perspectives on rural community life, and previously taken‐for‐granted notions of gender, racial‐ethnic, and class relations. Analysis of field data demonstrates contradictory ways that discourses on agrarianism and gemeinschaft serve as resources as well as impediments to social support and community development.
In: Gender & society: official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 141-143
ISSN: 1552-3977
In: Gender & society: official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 441-463
ISSN: 1552-3977
This article examines the cross-generational continuity of community work performed by women living and working in low-income communities and demonstrates the complex ways in which gender, race-ethnicity, and class contribute to the social construction of mothering. The analysis of low-income women's community work challenges definitions of mothering that are limited to biological and legal expressions, thus neglecting the significance of community-based nurturing work for geographic communities and racial-ethnic and class-based groups. The analysis utilizes a broadened understanding of labor and contests the divisions between paid and unpaid work traditionally used to discuss women's work. The article compares and contrasts the experiences of African-American and Latina (predominantly Puerto Rican women) community workers from low-income communities in New York City and Philadelphia. The findings of the research further demonstrate the ways that knowledge generated from the standpoint of women from different classes and racial-ethnic backgrounds transforms our understanding of politics, labor, and mothering.
In: Gender & society: official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 478-494
ISSN: 1552-3977
This article offers a reconceptualization of "the political" from the standpoint of women working in and for low-income neighborhoods, with special emphasis on the contradictions between their actions as community workers and their understandings of the political aspects of their work. The author also examines how their gender and race identity influenced their political consciousness and practice. The date are drawn from in-depth interviews with forty-two perdominantly African American and Puerto Rican women from New York City and Philadelphia who were hired in community action programs established by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
In: Affilia: journal of women and social work, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 23-38
ISSN: 1552-3020
This article explores the ways in which sexism is embedded in welfare policy by examining the hidden gender assumptions of the Family Support Act of 1988. An overview of feminist perspectives on the state reveals five key ways that the state organizes women's oppression. These five categories of analysis are used to demonstrate how patriarchal social relations are organized through the act.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 96, Heft 5, S. 1285-1286
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Globalizing Cultures, S. 141-173
In: American sociological review, Band 80, Heft 6, S. 1226-1249
ISSN: 1939-8271
In this article, we use comparative historical analysis to explain agenda-setting and the timing of policy outcomes on same-sex marriage in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Unlike the United States and Canada, Australia does not have a bill of rights, making litigation to obtain rights not enumerated in existing legislation unavailable to activists. Extending the literatures on the development of public policy and on political and historical institutionalism, we argue that in the absence of domestic opportunities for legal change, international law becomes more important to activists in wealthy democracies, but it is contingent on states' specific institutional and cultural features. Even when international law is "domesticated" into national political structures, it is still secondary to internal conditions in countries with extensive rights-based polities. International law may set a political agenda, but once introduced, policies move according to internal conditions related to party discipline, the centralization of courts, and policy legacies within those countries.
In: Women's studies quarterly: WSQ, Band 38, Heft 1-2, S. 132-156
ISSN: 1934-1520
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies
"Feminism, Activism, and Scholarship in Global Context" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 1103-1124
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: NWSA journal: a publication of the National Women's Studies Association, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 116-137
ISSN: 1527-1889
In: Rural sociology, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 194-214
ISSN: 1549-0831
Abstract We explore how feminist researchers informed by standpoint theoretical frameworks employ the process of self‐reflection to counter the reproduction of inequalities in ethnographic investigation. Although it is not a cure for this dilemma, we argue that researchers can be self‐conscious about the ways in which they reproduce power in the course of their work; furthermore, sustained attention to these dynamics will enrich ethnographic accounts. We begin by outlining the diverse ways in which feminist ethnographers draw on standpoint epistemology to generate strong reflexive methodological strategies. Then we describe challenges posed by postmodern and postcolonial critics, and outline how feminists have contributed to these debates and have responded with innovative methodological strategies, especially in relation to self‐reflexive techniques. In conclusion, we discuss how rural sociologists might incorporate these methodological insights into their ethnographic investigations.