GWS News
* Congratulations to Patricia Cooper, Professor Emerita, for being awarded one of the highest honors in the College of Arts and Sciences by being inducted to the A&S Hall of Fame on April 9, 2021.
* Check out this blog post by Bernadette Barton, Grad Certificate in GWS and PhD in Sociology
* Congratulations to Aria Halliday on two featured interviews published this month:
KISA Public Radio writer Danielle Harvey and Aria Halliday discussed hip-hop and the history of misogyny in the genre: https://kisaradio.org/hip-hop-and-the-female-image-how-the-genre-has-shaped-a-culture-and-impacted-women-and-the-careers-of-female-rappers/.
The 19th News writer Ko Bragg and Dr. Halliday discussed rapper Megan thee Stallion’s Grammy wins and why people are still so angry about her song, WAP, with Cardi B: https://19thnews.org/2021/03/wap-and-the-politics-of-black-womens-bodies/.
* Newest publications from Cristina Alcalde and Srimati Basu. Congrats!
M. Cristina Alcalde (2020) Coloniality, belonging, and indigeneity in Peruvian migration narratives, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2020.1805846
This article received an Honorable Mention for the Peru LASA Section Prize for best article
ABSTRACT: Transnational lives include not only the mobility of individuals, but of racialized discourses that reinforce and sustain inequalities and exclusion. Building on the seminal work of migration scholars Grosfoguel, Oso, and Christou, this article brings together Quijano's coloniality of power with cultural critic Aviles’s insights on contemporary forms of discrimination and anthropologist Briones’s conceptualization of ‘internal Others’ to center racialization in approaching contemporary middle-class Peruvian identities across borders. I suggest that similarly to how racialization is key to the processes of creating internal Others in Peru, middle-class Peruvians seek to assert higher status in relation to other migrants in the U.S. and Canada by employing discourses of indigeneity and internal Others. These forms of status-marking through racialization and differentiation are central to contemporary peruanidad within and beyond Peru’s physical borders, and to understanding the role of race, racism, and coloniality of thought among Peruvians outside Peru.
Srimati Basu. “The End(s) of Marriage: Feminists, Antifeminists and Indian Law” Feminist Anthropology 1.2 (2020): 184-191.
ABSTRACT: Feminist anthropology sought to transform the sex‐gender systems that enabled marriage. This essay considers the complications of that promise in the context of my recent research with antifeminist marriage resisters called Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOWs). Despite a history of marriage resistance in the Indian women's movement, contemporary women's organizations rely on civil and criminal law relating to marriage to secure resources for their clients and thus cannot afford to transform its heteronormative patriarchal logic. MGTOWs challenge gender roles and paid labor within marriage and seek alternatives to conjugality, but do so on terms that highlight their pain and disavow their privileges.
Contemporary racial inequities rooted in historically biased systems (e.g., policing) have largely been confronted by those directly affected. We argue, however, that the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic created a context that led many White Americans to recognize the direct impact that systems and structures have on individuals—particularly in the case of systemic anti-Black racism. This recognition was accompanied by large-scale confrontation actions (in the form of mass protests) throughout the U.S. The current paper uses the Confronting Prejudiced Responses (CPR) model to outline conditions that fostered White Americans’ shift in awareness surrounding racial inequity and the consequences of this perception change. Furthermore, we describe how reactions to confrontation efforts may depend on the messenger, message, modality and audience. Finally, we provide recommendations for individuals and organizations to support confrontation efforts aimed at reducing biased behavior and policies.
* Congrats to Ellen Riggle, who recently had this paper accepted: Bochicchio, L., Drabble, L.A., Riggle, E.D.B., Munroe, C., Wootton, A.R., & Hughes, T.L. (2021). Understanding alcohol and marijuana use among sexual minority women during COVID-19: A descriptive phenomenological study. Journal of Homosexuality. [In Press]
Participants in this study described how their alcohol/marijuana use intersected with the complex and changing context of the pandemic, revealing four themes: 1) losing old and creating new routines; 2) seeking recreation and relief from stress; 3) connecting, reconnecting, and disconnecting with others; and 4) monitoring alcohol and marijuana use boundaries.
* Susan Bordo, Professor Emerita, was recently featured in WalletHub's recent piece about the Best & Worst States for Women. Read it here.
* Congrats to Srimati Basu on her latest publication in Feminist Anthropology- "The End(s) of Marriage: Feminists, Antifeminists, and Indian Law". You can read the article here.
- GWS Honors: Annie Martyn, Erin Hoskins, Melissa Rueff
- 2020 Joan Callahan Award for Scholastic Achievement: Annie Martyn
- 2020 Kate Black Award for Activism: Erin Hoskins
- 2020 Jan Oaks Feminist Creativity Award: Lydia Fletcher
- 2020 Tomasky Leaders: Lauren Blalock, Madison Miller
- Space, Place, and Southern Grace Fund for Feminist Studies: Michelle Kuiper
- GWS graduate certificate awardees: Alyssa Campbell, Daniela Contreras Perez-Sosa, Rachel Davis, Kathryn Kohls, Cheryl Kwok, Kiersty Lemon-Rogers, Rachel McCoy, Emily Naser-Hall
- 2020 Bonnie Jean Cox Graduate Research Awards: Ruwen Chang, Mikaela Feroli, Alina Hecher, Mel Lesch, and Payton Moore