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Buttoned up: clothing, conformity, and white-collar masculinity
Playing by the rules: dress codes in corporate workplaces -- Trading places -- Just like Dad? Family relations and class origins in dressing for white-collar work -- Watches and shoes -- Putting on the uniform: choice, obligation, and collective identity -- Tailor tales -- The metrosexual is dead, long live the metrosexual! -- Zuck's hoodie -- What about women? Gender and dress at work and home -- A man should never wear -- The F word: men's engagement with fashion -- Comfort -- Being/becoming the boss: office hierarchies and dress
Making up the difference: women, beauty, and direct selling in Ecuador
In: Louann Atkins temple women & culture series bk. 25
Polluted Bodies
In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 50-52
ISSN: 1537-6052
Domestic employment requires unique physical proximity of bodies from different social classes, and often from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Despite the physical closeness, different strategies are used to reproduce class hierarchies among people, resulting in embodied inequality.
Book Review: Metrosexual Masculinities
In: Men and masculinities, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 433-434
ISSN: 1552-6828
Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador: Ethnographic Explorations of Women's Embodiment
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 268-274
ISSN: 1552-678X
Divided by borders: Mexican migrants and their children
In: Latino studies, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 502-504
ISSN: 1476-3443
New allies for immigration reform: A Cincinnati story
In: Latino studies, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 121-125
ISSN: 1476-3443
Spanish Language and Latino Ethnicity In Children's Television Programs
In: Latino studies, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 455-477
ISSN: 1476-3443
Transnational Body Projects: Media Representations of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Argentina and the United States
In: Journal of world-systems research, S. 57-81
ISSN: 1076-156X
Cosmetic surgery tourism (CST) is part of the growing trend known as medical tourism. As people in the global North travel to less affluent countries to modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, their transnational body projects are influenced by both economic "materialities" and traveling cultural "imaginaries." This article presents a content analysis of media representations of cosmetic surgery tourism in a major country sending patient-tourists (the United States) and a popular receiving country (Argentina). The power relations of globalization appear to be played out in the media. U.S. sources assert U.S. hegemony through a discourse emphasizing the risks of CST in the global South, in contrast with medical excellence in the U.S. Argentine sources portray Argentina as a country struggling to gain a foothold in the global economy, but staking a claim on modernity through cultural and professional resources. The analyzed articles also offer a glimpse of how patient-tourists fuel sectors of the global economy by placing their bodies at the forefront, seeking to merge medical procedures and touristic pleasures. There is a gender dimension to these portrayals, as women are especially likely to engage in CST. Their transnational body projects are tainted by negative media portrayals, which represent them as ignorant, uninformed, and driven mainly by the low price of surgery overseas. Our comparative approach sheds light on converging and diverging perspectives on both ends of the cosmetic surgery tourism chain, showing that patterns in CST portrayals differ according to the position of a country in the world-system.
The Body as a Site of Resistance
In: The SAGE Handbook of Resistance, S. 139-155
Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations
In: Women's studies quarterly: WSQ, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 42-57
ISSN: 1934-1520
A Tale of Two Hoodies
In: Men and masculinities, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 117-122
ISSN: 1552-6828
Informed But Insecure: Employment Conditions and Social Protection among Paid Domestic Workers in Guayaquil
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 163-174
ISSN: 1552-678X
Salaried domestic labor in private homes in Latin America is informal, precarious, and exploitative, but for thousands of women who have no other options it is their occupation and the sustenance of their families. The results of a study based on 400 surveys of paid domestic workers in Guayaquil, Ecuador, about social protection and labor rights show that workers possess a high level of knowledge about their labor rights but the majority do not belong to the social security system and many do not enjoy any of the benefits guaranteed them by law. Understanding the situation and experiences of these workers is a precondition for creating strategies to recognize the importance of their work and to guarantee their labor rights.En América Latina, el trabajo remunerado en casas privadas es informal, precario, y explotador; para miles de mujeres que no tienen otras opciones, es su ocupación y el sustento de su familia. Los resultados de un estudio basado en 400 encuestas de la protección social y derechos laborales de las mujeres trabajadoras remuneradas del hogar de Guayaquil, Ecuador, demuestran un alto nivel de conocimiento de los derechos laborales entre las trabajadoras. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las participantes no estaba afiliada al sistema de seguro social, y muchas no gozaban de ninguno de los beneficios garantizados por la ley. Entender la situación y las experiencias de las trabajadoras del hogar es necesario para crear estrategias que reconozcan la importancia de la reproducción social y defiendan los derechos laborales.
New and Noteworthy Research
In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 8-12
ISSN: 1537-6052