Gender & Society articles from April 1997

Gender & Society archives from April 1997

Makeup at work: negotiating appearance rules in the workforce.
April 1, 1997... Why do women wear makeup to work? Countless books and articles in women's magazines insist that wearing makeup enhances a woman's career. Researchers have also found that conventionally attractive people are perceived as having greater...

Messages of exclusion: gender, movements, and symbolic boundaries.
April 1, 1997... Begin with two strange, apparently unrelated moments of conflict in sex and gender movement histories. CNN's Larry King Live was blaring on television. "You won't believe who's won the right to advise the United Nations," the announcer...

The "ladies of the club" and Caroline Bartlett Crane: affiliation and alienation in progressive social reform.
April 1, 1997... Eliminate all persons of unworthy motives and doubtful motives and curious notions, and leave only for consideration the earnest, honest-hearted women who simply want to help and mean to help. Caroline Bartlett Crane (1896, 382) Social...

"Hey, why don't you wear a shorter skirt?" Structural vulnerability and the organization of sexual harassment in temporary clerical employment.
April 1, 1997... SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE A large portion of the social research devoted to sexual harassment has focused on documenting the extent of sexual harassment: what percentage of women are sexually harassed (MacKinnon 1979); which...

Teasing, disputing, and playing: cross-gender interactions and space utilization among first and third grades.
April 1, 1997... This research is situated in an after-school child care center and specifically focuses on the dynamics of gender relations of first and third graders. Outside of this setting, much of the research on gender among children compares...