The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology

Stacey, Judith; Thorne, Barrie

doi:10.2307/800754

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“…I instead draw on the sociology of punishment to consider a form of state‐sanctioned regulation—sex offender registries—devised to control a broad range of sexual practices governed as crime. The title of this article is an explicit play on those of Stein and Plummer () and Stacey and Thorne (), who both considered what new insights into gender and sexuality could be gleaned from queer and feminist theoretical and conceptual frameworks. In the next section, I consider what the literature on punitive social control can help reveal about the social production of sexuality.…”

Section: The Social Control Of Sex: Beyond the Gay/straight Binarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies

Hoppe¹

2016

Law soc. inq.

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At precisely the same time that gay and lesbian activists were securing marriage rights for same-sex couples nationwide, courts and "tough on crime" state legislatures were devising new ways to regulate sex. Despite recent estimates that over 750,000 Americans are registered sex offenders, few sexuality scholars have examined the growth of punitive policies regulating sex offenders. In this article, I draw on a unique set of data on the population of sex offenders in the United States to analyze: (1) whether recent trends in sex offender registration mirror those of corrections more generally, and (2) whether these policies disproportionally impact racial minorities. Findings reveal that sex offender registries grew dramatically between 2005 and 2013; that this growth is out of step with concurrent trends in corrections; and that black communities are disproportionately impacted. I conclude by considering whether these data reveal a new mode of "governing through crime" specifically targeting sex.It might as well be admitted that sex is a disgrace.Michael Warner (1999) There is a big secret about sex: most people don't like it.

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Section: The Social Control Of Sex: Beyond the Gay/straight Binarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies

Hoppe¹

2016

Law soc. inq.

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“…Indeed, sport as an arena of ideological battles over gender relations has been given short shrift throughout the sociology of sport literature. This is due in part to the marginalization of feminist theory within sociology as a discipline (Stacey & Thorne, 1985) and within sport sociology in particular (Birrell, 1984;Hall, 1984). When gender has been examined by sport sociologists, it has usually been within the framework of a sex role paradigm that concerns itself largely with the effects of sport participation on an individual's sex role identity, values, and so on (Lever, 1976;Sabo & Runfola, 1980;Schafer, 1975).'…”

Section: Sport Culture and Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sports and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain

Messner

1988

Sociology of Sport Journal

461

272

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This paper explores the historical and ideological meanings of organized sports for the politics of gender relations. After outlining a theory for building a historically grounded understanding of sport, culture, and ideology, the paper argues that organized sports have come to serve as a primary institutional means for bolstering a challenged and faltering ideology of male superiority in the 20th century. Increasing female athleticism represents a genuine quest by women for equality, control of their own bodies, and self-definition, and as such represents a challenge to the ideological basis of male domination. Yet this quest for equality is not without contradictions and ambiguities. The socially constructed meanings surrounding physiological differences between the sexes, the present “male” structure of organized sports, and the media framing of the female athlete all threaten to subvert any counter-hegemonic potential posed by female athletes. In short, the female athlete—and her body—has become a contested ideological terrain.

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“…Although purporting to be 'objective' and value-neutral, science has often functioned in the disservice of marginalized groups, and feminists have been among the most vociferous critics (e.g. Stacey & Thorne, 1985). For instance, pioneering feminist psychologist Naomi Weisstein was one of the first to document the systemic biases and stereotypes about women that dominated the discipline of psychology, ultimately classifying women as: inconsistent, emotionally unstable, lacking in a strong conscience or superego, weaker, 'nurturant' rather than productive, 'intuitive' rather than intelligent, and, if they are at all 'normal', suited to the home and the family.…”

Section: Feminist Challenges To Man-made Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Learning critical feminist research: A brief introduction to feminist epistemologies and methodologies

Wigginton

Lafrance

2019

Feminism & Psychology

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This article serves as a welcoming introduction to feminist epistemologies and methodologies, written to accompany (and intended to be read prior to) the Virtual Special Issue on ‘Doing Critical Feminist Research’. In recalling our own respective journeys into the exciting field of feminist research, we invite new readers in appreciating the steep learning curve out of conventional science. This article begins by sketching out the emergence of feminist scholarship – focusing particularly on the discipline of psychology – to show readers how and why feminist scholars sought to depart from conventional science. In doing so, we explain the emergence of three main ways of doing and thinking about research (i.e. epistemologies): feminist empiricism, standpoint theory, and the various ‘turn to language’ movements (social constructionism, constructivism, postmodernism, poststructuralism). We then connect the dots between feminist epistemologies, methodologies and methods. We close by offering suggestions to guide the readers in using the Virtual Special Issue on their respective research journeys.

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The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology

Cited by 424 publications

References 33 publications

Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies

Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies

Sports and Male Domination: The Female Athlete as Contested Ideological Terrain

Learning critical feminist research: A brief introduction to feminist epistemologies and methodologies

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