This paper analyzes whether the organization of child care services accounts for the low geographical mobility of Southern European countries. The Southern emancipated children live close to their family to take advantage of the low labor force participation rate of their mothers in order to reconcile work and family life once they have children. It …
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This paper examines the representations of women’s sexuality in Hurricane Katrina souvenir t-shirts, highlighting how these garments reflect and perpetuate hegemonic gender norms. By analyzing t-shirt slogans that sexualize the hurricane—often named after women—the authors argue that these cultural artifacts serve as social messages revealing attitudes towards gender and sexuality in the context of disaster …
This analytic review highlights what can be gained from research on same-sex couples and housework. This review reveals how same-sex couples both “do” and “undo” gender through housework. This review also underscores the need to attend to the social and temporal contexts that shape how same-sex couples give meaning to and enact housework. And, this …
