Catholicism is the most restrictive world religion in its position on assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). The opposition of the Church, combined with the widespread acceptability of ARTs in the United States, creates a profound moral dilemma for those who adhere to Church doctrine. Drawing on interviews from 33 Catholic women, this study shows that devout women have different understandi…
Feminist scholarship has demonstrated the importance of sustained critical engagement with ultrasound visualizations of pregnant women’s bodies. In response to portrayals of these images as “objective” forms of knowledge about the fetus, it has drawn attention to the social practices through which the meanings of ultrasound are produced. This article makes a novel contribution to this project b…
Based on in-depth interviews, this article examines a sample of 48 Canadian women’s feelings about their changed postpartum bodies, their sense of self, and the factors that affect both. Our findings suggest that understanding women’s postpartum feelings requires contextualizing them in the work of infant care and women’s life circumstances, as well as ideologies about mothering and feminine ap…
This study seeks to understand the ways in which men who pledge sexual abstinence until marriage negotiate and assert masculine identities before and after marriage. Using longitudinal qualitative data, this work traces the ways in which men who pledge abstinence until marriage manage a tension between both “sacred” and “beastly” discourses surrounding sexuality. The situational and interaction…
Pemerintah telah mengeluarkan perpres No. 54 tahun 2010 tentang pengadaan barang dan jasa. Perpres ini berlaku sejak Januari 2011, menggantikan keppress no. 80 tahun 2003 dan perubahan-perubahannya. Dalam buku ini disajikan secara lengkap peraturan presiden tersebut beserta lampiran-lampirannya.
Drawing from the gender wage gap literature, we explore four possible causes of sexual minority earnings gaps: (1) variation in human capital and labor force participation, (2) occupational and industrial sorting, (3) differences in the institutional organization of the public and private sector, and (4) different returns to marriage and parenthood. Using the 2006 Census of Canada, we find that…
Recently, scholars and activists have turned their attention toward improving the measurement of sex and gender in survey research. The focus of this effort has been on including answer options beyond “male” and “female” to questions about the respondent’s gender. This is an important step toward both reflecting the diversity of gendered lives and better aligning survey measurement practice wit…
How do non-Western men interact with and understand the form of Western masculinity associated with global dominance? Is their experience of Western hegemonic masculinity’s denigration of their national/ethnic masculinity similar to what occurs among subordinated nonwhite and lower-class men in Western countries? We take up this subject in our study of the South Korean Father School movement, w…
Research on emotional labor has consistently shown that women’s jobs require the suppression of anger. But in the debt settlement firms we studied, the women who negotiated with creditors were expected to express anger. We show that what made their anger acceptable was that its expression was preceded and followed by positive emotions. Women were praised for their ability to rapidly shift from …
Drawing on four years of ethnographic research with romance novel writers, we show how their affiliation with romance—a literary genre known for stories containing sexual content—prompted outsiders to sexually stigmatize them. Our work examines both the application and management of this stigma. We describe how outsiders applied the stigma in two ways: by conveying blatant disapproval through “…
The literature on Dalit women largely deals with issues of violence and oppression based on intersections of class, caste, and gender. Women’s bodies, sexuality, and reproductive choices are linked to the ideological hegemony of the caste–gender nexus in India, with marriage and sexual relations playing crucial roles in maintaining caste boundaries. Often, the ways in which women manipulate the…
Siapa sangka, Kabupaten Lebong yang baru berusia 9 tahun ini menjadi sebuah inspirasi dalam buku yang berjudul Birokrat MOVE ON yang ditulis oleh Adrinal Tanjung, seorang PNS yang bekerja di Kementerian Pendayagunaan Aparatur Negara dan Reformasi Birokrasi (Kemen PAN RB) dan saat ini menjabat sebagai Kepala Bidang (Kabid) Penyusunan Sistem dan Prosedur Pemerintahan di Kemen PAN dan RB. Dalam b…
Salah satu tantangan pokok pembangunan saat ini dan mendatang adalah reformasi birokrasi. Yaitu menggerakkan birokrasi agar lebih efektif menjalankan tugas dan fungsinya dalam melayani masyarakat dalam dinamika pembangunan yang semakin kompleks. Salah satu bagian penting dari reformasi birokrasi adalah kinerja birokrasi yang harus dipantau dan dievaluasi secara tepat. Buku ini memberikan pem…
This study uses in-depth interviews and participant observation with gun carriers in Michigan to examine how socioeconomic decline shapes the appropriation of guns by men of diverse class and race backgrounds. Gun carriers nostalgically referenced the decline of Mayberry America—a version of America characterized by the stable employment of male breadwinners and low crime rates. While men of co…
“Menggagas Indonesia Masa Depan” buku ini adalah buku yang memberikan pemikiran analisis tentang kepemimpinan nasional dan cita-cita Indonesia sebagai bangsa besar dimasa mendatang. Dalam buku ini kita dapat lebih memahami sosok pemimpin yang diinginkan di masa mendatang. Perlu kita ketahui bahwa bangsa indonesia memiliki potensi untuk menjadi bangsa yang sejahtera dan maju. Untuk menciptakan …
This article explores how anticipations of parenthood differentially affect the career aspirations and choices of women and men who have not (yet) had children. Drawing from in-depth interviews conducted separately with 60 coupled young adults (30 heterosexual couples), I find that women in my sample were disproportionately likely to think and worry about future parenthood in their imagined wor…