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    • immigrant workers: doing it all for you
      The New York Times reports that the number of foreign-born workers is on the rise in the U.S. Nearly one in six American workers is foreign-born, the highest proportion since the 1920s, according to a census analysis released Monday. Because of government barriers to immigration, the share of foreign-born workers dipped from a 20th-century high of 21 [...] […]
    • Phone Sex: Real and Imaginary (NSFW)
      In my Power and Sexuality class, I sometimes assign articles from a book called Whores and Other Feminists. All of the essays are written by current and former sex workers who identify as feminist. It’s pretty fascinating. So some of the phone sex operators talk about what they do while having “phone sex,” like chores and booking airline ti […]
    • SocImages Apparently Undermining Itself One Image at a Time
      If you were to view an article about the diversity of Saudi Arabian life, and it included the following images, what would you likely take away from the article? Elisabeth R. drew our attention to a recent study asking about the relationship between images and text. It found that, when images that confirmed a reader’s stereotypes about a place were pai […]
    • Gay marriage in the US by space and time
      What works I cropped what you see above from an infographic that is part of GOOD magazine’s infographic section called Transparency. If you haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend it. This was the strongest part of the graphic. It does a masterful job of elegantly illustrating a relationship both in space and time. [...]
    • Calling out Vile Homophobia
      Big shout to co-Contexts blogger Kari Lerum at Sexuality and Society for bringing attention to a vile piece of legislation in the Ugandan Parliament that would allow the “crime of homosexuality” to be punishable by death.  As academics we are trained to take detached, analytical approaches to events in the social world.  Understandably, we don […]
    • Global Warming Reparations
      Nothing beats a nice clean visual presentation to hammer home a point. Point here…we are some energy hoggin’ you-know-whatters but we’re not alone.  To be fair, it would probably be more appropriate to collapse the global emissions of all the EU nations into one bubble rather than breaking it down by individual country.   Are you as [...] […]
    • Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right—Dude, Where’s My Stimulus?
      Years ago, I once had a conversation with an economist who freely admitted that there was no unified macroeconomic theory.  What works versus what doesn’t work in a particular sociopolitical context is really just so much spitballing.  This never surprised me given the complex realities of global capitalism. I’ve been genuinely perplexed by Barac […]
    • Weekends Are for Porn (Not News)
      Just in case you’ve ever wanted evidence that people do more online searches for porn on weekends (especially Friday nights!): Thanks to Larry. UPDATE: Reader Dangger sent us a comparison of searches for porn and news: (Via.) (View original at http://contexts.org/socimages)
    • Weber’s Monopoly on Violence
      Perry H. sent in this cartoon: The cartoon, of course, reminds us of the power of words.  Calling something “terrorism” is a way to make it seem illegitimate.   And, often, what makes violence illegitimate is not something inherent in the violence itself, but your perspective on it. The cartoon also reminds us of Max Weber’s insight that th […]
    • Finally A Women’s Movement Men Can Get Behind
      Last week Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a scorching critique of the uproar over pushing regular mammography back till 50-years-old, in light of the muted response to the Stupak amendment excluding abortion from both state and public health insurance programs. “So welcome to the Women’s Movement 2.0,” she writes “pink-ribbon culture has replaced […]

Posts Tagged ‘Gender’

Tough Guise – video from class

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 2 October, 2009

The 7-minute video clip about images of masculinity and male violence, from class.

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Gender – Slideshows from Class

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 29 September, 2009

Twp presentations from class – Constructing Femininity (Wednesday) and Constructing Masculinity (Friday).


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Constructing Masculinity

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 6 February, 2009

PowerPoint presentation from class on Friday6 February.

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Constructing Femininity – Class presentation/discussion

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 4 February, 2009

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BET Special Video by What Black Men Think – MySpace Video

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 23 January, 2009

Janks Morton shows the power of data both to present a false picture and to correct it.
Here is the News Release when the original report was released; you’ll find the information about black men in prison vs college in the summary.

The report (16 page PDF) was Cellblocks and Classrooms, released in 2002.

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“Nurse” or “Male Nurse”

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 11 November, 2008

After we talked about professions that are associated with one or another gender, the blog Sociological Images posted this picture that is aimed to de-gender the name of one such profession – I thought you’d be interested.

De-Gendering Nurse

"De-Gendering Nurse"

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Images of Masculinity from Soc Images Blog

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 27 September, 2008

Right AFTER we our class discussed the Construction of Masculinity, the Sociological Images blog posted several items on that topic.

The cover the “Battleship” game in the 1950s.

Viagra lightswitch

A CNN newscast about a school district’s decision not to allow a male student to wear Goth-style makeup:
Embedded video from CNN Video

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Advertising Images of Women – Killing Us Softly 3

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 23 September, 2008

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Gender Stereotypes

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 23 September, 2008

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Killing Us Softly 3

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 7 February, 2008

This video is included in the powerpoint presentation on gender roles and work.

It is marked on  YouTube as including adult content, because of some of the ads that are portrayed.  It is interesting that the ads themselves appear in general circulation magazines and newspapers.

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