Blending into Equality: Family Diversity and Gender Convergence

Lang, Molly Monahan; Risman, Bárbara J.

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“…Despite changes in gender ideology in liberal democratic societies, gender inequalities within intimate relationships persist (Boeri, Del Boca, & Pissarides, ; Kan & Gershuny, ). The ideological image of male breadwinner and female homemaker has largely lost its appeal and no longer captures the lived experience of many couples and families (Davis & Greenstein, ; Monahan Lang & Risman, ). One would expect that contemporary discourses of equality and women's emancipation would translate into more diversified performances of gender and intimate relationships.…”

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New Sexism in Couple Therapy: A Discursive Analysis

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The persistence of gender inequality in postindustrial societies is puzzling in light of a plethora of changes that destabilize it, including shifts in economy, legislation, and the proliferation of feminist politics. In family relations, such persistence manifests as a disconnect between couples aspiring to be more egalitarian yet continuing to enact traditional gender roles and hierarchies. There is an emerging consensus that gender inequality persists because of people's continued reliance on sexist ideology or gendered assumptions that constitute women as innately distinct from and inferior to men. Sexist ideology changes its form to accommodate to changing socio-economic conditions. Contemporary forms of sexism are old ways of legitimizing male power articulated in new and creative ways, often by incorporating feminist arguments. To effectively recognize and address "new sexism," scholars and practitioners require new, innovative research frameworks. Our objective in writing this article is two-fold. First, we seek to advance discursive (i.e., focused on language in use) approaches to the study of sexism. Second, we present the results of a discursive analysis of "new" sexist discourse in the context of couple therapy. The study provides preliminary evidence that, despite endorsing egalitarian norms, couples studied continue to rely on gender binaries and remain entrenched in old-fashioned patterns of gender inequality. Implications of these results for the practice of couple therapy and for future research are discussed.

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“…largely lost its appeal and no longer captures the lived experience of many couples and families 1 (Davis & Greenstein, 2009;Monahan Lang & Risman, 2006). One would expect that contemporary discourses of equality and women's emancipation would translate into more diversified performances of gender and intimate relationships.…”

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Are Television Commercials Still Achievement Scripts for Women?

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2008

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Content analyses of television advertising document the ubiquity of traditional images of women, yet few studies have explored their impact. One noteworthy exception is the experiment by Geis, Brown, Jennings, and Porter (1984). These researchers found that the achievement aspirations of controls and women exposed to traditional images were lower than those of both women who viewed nontraditional replicas and men, leading to the conclusion that women's aspirations were muted by sexist advertising. An updated extension and modification of their study with 185 college women and 96 men did not find an interaction between gender and ad exposure, suggesting some changes over time in women's aspirations, as well as in the content and impact of commercials. Although women's achievement scripts now appear more similar to men's, as well as more resistant to sexist exposure, there are signs in the present data and related research that women's aspirations are not fully impervious to sexism in the media.

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The Crisis of Masculinity for Gendered Democracies: Before, During, and After Trump

Ferree

2020

Sociological Forum

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The mobilized masculinity of democracies today is often presented as either a natural way for men to respond to the economic and political challenges of globalization or as a return to the patriarchal style of politics of the past. This article argues instead for an understanding of liberal democracy itself as gendered, being the collective masculinity of brotherhoods representing rivalrous nations. The first great transition from patriarchies and monarchies to brotherhoods and democracies is not being unmade now but facing a second transition to a different understanding of gender and power. This normative rise of a partnership model in families and politics is incomplete and highly contested everywhere. In the United States, it has become a partisan conflict expressed in gender terms. The Republican defense of the brotherhood state and its exclusive version of national good is countered by a newer but increasingly institutionalized vision of democracies as representing women and men equally. By more explicitly demasculinizing family headship and political leadership, social justice movements and the Democratic Party symbolically resist the restoration of gender norms privileging breadwinners and brotherhoods.

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Blending into Equality: Family Diversity and Gender Convergence

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New Sexism in Couple Therapy: A Discursive Analysis

New Sexism in Couple Therapy: A Discursive Analysis

Are Television Commercials Still Achievement Scripts for Women?

The Crisis of Masculinity for Gendered Democracies: Before, During, and After Trump

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