Gender & Society articles from February 1997

Gender & Society archives from February 1997

The politics of reproductive benefits: U.S. insurance coverage of contraceptive and infertility treatments.
February 1, 1997... The average woman is fertile, and therefore must attempt to control her reproductivity, for one-half of her life.(1) For most women, it is the preoccupation with preventing births that consumes their health care dollars and energies; for a...

Korean immigrant women's challenge to gender inequality at home: the interplay of economic resources, gender, and family.
February 1, 1997... Previous research has found that Korean immigrant husbands rarely participate in family work and are dominant over their wives; they demonstrate that Korean immigrant families are not gender egalitarian. However, one study reveals that Korean...

(In)secure times: constructing white working-class masculinities in the late 20th century.
February 1, 1997... In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the poor and working-class white boys and men whom we interviewed have narrated "personal identities" as if they were wholly independent of corroding economic and social relations. Drenched in a kind of...

"It's part of the game" Physicality and the production of gender in women's hockey.
February 1, 1997... Competitive sport is one of the most important arenas for the production and expression of gender. Connell (1987, 85) writes that "images of ideal masculinity are constructed and promoted most systematically through competitive sport," in which...

Holy men and big guns: the can[n]on in social theory.
February 1, 1997... Several years ago, a colleague from the humanities asked me if I would participate in a university-wide panel on the canon. My first response was: why me? What would a sociologist know about the canon? I had always associated the concept with...

Gender, ethnicity, and immigration: double disadvantage and triple disadvantage among recent immigrant women in the Israeli labor market.
February 1, 1997... For many decades immigrant women were virtually invisible in the sociological literature (e.g., Morokvasic 1984; Pedraza 1991; Simon 1992). In recent years, however, more and more researchers have begun studying the economic participation of...