SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER

(I will attach an old midterm of mine from this class so you can see my style of writing and what she wrote me back) This essay is a final for my Sociology of Gender class. I will attach the paper guidelines, but I will also try to sum it up for you here. She is allowing us to pick any topic/question that deals with either the COVID-19 pandemic or any other issue that is relevant to the readings of the semester (which includes embodying gender, gendered bodies at the intersectionality of race and class, bodily labor, neoliberalism – the choice is your as long as it relates to gender and min. 4 readings). I think it might be easier to talk about COVID-19 and gender, but again it is up to you. I will be providing many readings and tell you their topics below.

Any approach can be chosen: can be purely analytical, involve original empirical research, including a review of news articles, in-depth interviews, or ethnographic observations done online (I have no idea how that’s possible, maybe like through observing social media??) or in your neighborhood/home. (if you decide to use observations that are of a home I think it would be important to know that I am Hispanic (Dominican) and a 19 year old girl, so any other details can be made up, don’t really care what you say if it helps you write this paper – IF you choose this method) Autoethnographic approaches are allowed too.

Here are the names of articles I’ll attach and some links you can copy and paste as to (I thought it would be easier for you to pick 4 if I tell you their topics):

—Body Projects

Rosalind Gill, Karen Henwood, and Carl McLean, “Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity,” Body & Society, March 2005, 11:1, (37-62).

Dean Spade. 2006. “Mutilating Gender.” In Susan Styker and Steven Whittle, eds., The Transgender Studies Reader. New York: Routledge: 315-331.

Maxine Craig, “Racialized Bodies.” In Routledge Handbook of Body Studies, ed. Bryan S. Turner. Routledge, 2012: 321-331.

—Gendered Bodies at the Intersections of Race and Class

Sara Ahmed. 2007. “A Phenomenology of Whiteness,” Feminist Theory, 8:2, 2007: 149-168.

Rebecca Jordan Young and Katrina Karkazis. 2018. “The Powers of Testosterone: Obscuring Race and Regional Bias in the Regulation of Women Athletes.” Feminist Formations, 30:2, 1-39.

Sabrina Strings. 2015. “Obese Black Women as ‘Social Dead Weight’: Reinventing the ‘Diseased Black Woman.’” Signs. 41:1, 107-130.

—Bodily Labor
Rhacel Parreñasand Eileen Boris, eds., Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and thePolitics of Care. Palo Alto:Stanford University Press, 2010: Chapters by Almeling (63-78), Ward(78-95), Bernstein (148-166), Hoang (166-183), and Kang (217-231).

—Neoliberalism

Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations

(IF YOU CLINK THIS LINK THERE WILL BE SEVERAL ARTICLES!! pick from introduction, Part 1, and pieces by Shah, Kaye, Padilla, Detroit Youth Passages Project, Amuchástegui, Moore, and Farris)

Gendered implications of quarentine around COVID-19
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/16/womens-coronavirus-domestic-burden?fbclid=IwAR28l_4324nm6lDY0FtZWecBrNp7gl0ij4Q5h9TsnM_yjbpBazzJ8FDp4cY

COVID-19 and intersectionality

Race and COVID-19
http://bostonreview.net/race/andrew-lanham-american-racism-time-plagues

COVID-19 and social inequalities

New York’s Inequalities Are Fueling COVID-19

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-coronavirus-and-the-interwoven-threads-of-inequality-and-health

(these are only some of a ton of articles on the internet on COVID-19 -these are a few she sent us throughout the semester ^^^)