Dreaded “Otherness” : Heteronormative Patrolling in Women’s Body Hair R…

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Vol. 25 no. 4, August 2011.pp. 451-472

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08912432

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Gender & Society

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Constructing Arab Female Leadership Lessons from the Moroccan Media

How the Arab media construct Middle Eastern women as political actors, frame their leadership roles, and narrate their activities to the public are important questions largely ignored in the growing scholarship on women�s political participation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Drawing on Nancy Fraser�s reflections on the politics of recognition and distribution (2007), I examine the…

Men Bring Condoms, Women Take Pills : Men’s and Women’s Roles in Contrace…

The most popular form of reversible contraception in the United States is the female-controlled hormonal birth control pill. Consequently, scholars and lay people have typically assumed that women take primary responsibility for contraceptive decision making in relationships. Although many studies have shown that men exert strong influence in couple�s contraceptive decisions in developing count…

Casual Hookups to Formal Dates : Refining the Boundaries of the Sexual Double…

�Hooking up,� a popular type of sexual behavior among college students, has become a pathway to dating relationships. Based on open-ended narratives written by 273 undergraduates, we analyze how students interpreted a vignette describing a heterosexual hookup followed by a sexless first date. In contrast to the sexual script which holds that women want relationships more than sex and men care a…

Show or Tell? Feminist Dilemmas and Implicit Feminism at Girls’ Rock Camp

Previous research demonstrates how activists who do not identify as feminist sometimes engage in �implicitly feminist practices.� In this paper, I extend this research by asking: Do self-identified feminists also employ such implicit strategies in the course of their activist efforts? If so, why would they �do� feminism implicitly? Based on participant observation and semistructured interviews …

Programs for Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering : Issues, Problem…

We analyze programs for undergraduate women in science and engineering as strategic research sites in the study of disparities between women and men in scientific fields within higher education. Based on responses to a survey of the directors of the universe of these programs in the United States, the findings reveal key patterns in the programs� (1) definitions of the issues of women in scienc…

Youth Privilege : Doing Age and Gender in Russia’s Single-Mother Families

Relative to gender, race, and class, age relations are undertheorized. Yet age, like gender, is routinely accomplished in daily life. Grandmothers and adult daughters simultaneously do age and gender as they support one another in managing paid work and domestic responsibilities. Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with 90 single mothers and 30 grandmothers (babushki) in Russia, I explo…

Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers : Gender, Couple Dynamics, and …

I examine experiences of married couples to better understand whether economic shifts that push couples into gender-atypical work/family arrangements influence gender inequality. I draw on in-depth interviews conducted in 2008 with stay-at-home husbands and their wives in 21 married-couple families with children (42 individual interviews). I find that the decision to have a father stay home is …

Structural Embeddedness of Political Top Executives as Explanation of Policy …

This study examines structural embeddedness of political executives as an antecedent of policy isomorphism in municipalities. Surprisingly, little public management research investigates the institutional and structural backgrounds for decision making and action. This article argues that the social network of political executives constitutes a conduit in which information as well as expectation…

The Effect of Expectations and Expectancy Confirmation/Disconfirmation on Mot…

Over the past several years, scholars have asked how citizen satisfaction with public services might be affected by the expectations citizens have for service quality. Might satisfaction with public services be affected just not only by the perceived quality of those services but also by the quality citizens expect services to have? This line of questioning uses the so-called �expectancy discon…

Building a Theory of Learning in Collaboratives : Evidence from the Everglade…

Many of society's most vexing problems must be solved through collaborative arrangements. Growing scholarly interest in collaboratives recognizes that the capacity for collective learning may play a critical role in their success. However, limited theoretical or empirical research exists to explain how learning occurs and the conditions that support learning in this context. In this article, we…

The Benefits of Bureaucracy : Public Managers’ Perceptions of Political Sup…

Public organizations rely extensively on sources of support�political and otherwise�external to themselves to ensure continued success in meeting policy goals. The resource-dependent nature of political-administrative relations can create performance problems for organizations, especially when perceptions of political support decline. Previous literature demonstrates how low levels of political…

Organizational Confidence : An Empirical Assessment of Highly Positive Public…

There is a great deal of research investigating public servants' perceptions of organizational problems (e.g., red tape, bureaucratic control); however, there is little research investigating public servants who have highly positive perceptions of their organizations. This article assesses perceptions of state employees to investigate individual- and organizational-level correlates with highly …

Managing the Inclusion Process in Collaborative Governance

Facilitators that use a collaborative governance approach are regularly pushed, mandated, or naturally desire to achieve broad inclusion of stakeholders in collaborations. How to achieve such inclusion is an important but often overlooked aspect of implementation. To fully realize the value of collaborative governance, we investigate how institutional design choices made about inclusion practic…

The Effects of Public Service Motivation on Job Choice Decisions : Disentangl…

Although most research focuses on person-organization fit to explain public service motivation (PSM)'s influence on job choice, this study investigates the independent effects of both person-organization fit and person-job fit using a policy capturing research design and a sample of first-year law students. Our findings suggest that PSM may play a more important role in person-job fit than pers…

Outcomes, Process, and Trust of Civil Servants

The contemporary performance movement has tended to assume that a key to restoring public trust in civil servants lies in a focus on outcomes or results. But there is growing evidence from various fields that trust in people and institutions of authority often depends more on process (such as fairness and equity) than on outcomes. This finding that process matters in the formation of trust judg…

Campaign Contributions, Access, and Government Contracting

It is clear that corporations seek to use campaign contributions to gain government contracts, but despite anecdotes, whether they succeed has been largely ignored in academic studies. In this article, I discuss how campaign contributions may influence contracting and consider the relationship between the donation of campaign contributions and the receipt of government contracts for a sample of…

Indicators at the interface : managing policymaker-researcher collaboration

The knowledge transfer literature encourages partnerships between researchers and policymakers for the purposes of policy-relevant knowledge creation. Consequently, research findings are more likely to be used by policymakers during policy development. This paper presents a set of practice-based indicators that can be used to manage the collaborative knowledge creation process or assess the per…

Policy as a struggle for meaning : disentangling knowledge translation across…

Over the last decade, research in medical science has focused on knowledge translation and diffusion of best practices to enable improved health outcomes. However, there has been less attention given to the role of policy in influencing the translation of best practice across different national contexts. This paper argues that the underlying set of public discourses of healthcare policy signifi…

Risk communication and knowledge management in a nuclear sector : a case stud…

Despite the fact that the relevant national legislation was amended in order to achieve compliance with the acquis communautaire of the European Union, Slovakia has met challenges in developing good practices of risk communication in the nuclear sector. The aim of this paper is to summarise the development of risk communication-related legislation in Slovakia, to present the results of research…