Chinese family is a patriarchal power system. How the system influences young mothers' agency in managing family men's smoking is unknown. Applying a gender lens, this ethnographic study explored how mothers of young children in Chinese extended families reacted to men's smoking. The study sample included 29 participants from 22 families. Semi-structured interviews and field observations were t...

Among the commonplaces of social history is the idea that early capitalism made the family (and indeed all of society) more authoritarian and more patriarchal. The Protestant Reformation, we are told, was both an instrument and an expression of this process. This view, here starkly oversimplified, is loosely associated with the names of Marx and Weber, but has passed into common currency. In re...

In this paper I argue that the practice of veganism is, or can be, a Foucauldian ethical practice of freedom. I begin by sketching out the problematization of alimentary practices within a normalizing patriarchal framework, which some feminists argue is dominant within contemporary North American society. Within this problematization, eating—for many women—is a way to manage the body’s appearan...

This study examined the relationships among enculturation, attitudes supporting intimate partner violence (IPV-supporting attitudes), and gender role attitudes among one of the largest Asian Indian population groups in the US. Data were collected via computer-assisted telephone interviews with a random sample of Gujarati men and women aged 18-64 in Metropolitan Detroit. Using structural equatio...

“Males, like rats following the Pied Piper, will be lured by Pussy to their doom, will be overcome and submerged by and will eventually drown in the passive flesh that they are” (Solanas 44). Comparing men to rats, a subhuman species, is not the only derogatory analogy Solanas makes in her SCUM Manifesto. The Manifesto, written in the late 1960s during the second-wave feminist movement, charact...

The United Nations [1] estimates that one in three women has been beaten or sexually abused in their lifetime and that this violence against women (VAW) is present in both highly developed and less developed countries. While men’s VAW is one of our greatest social problems, research on VAW is generally polarized. Psychological research tends to explain violence at the individual level and, ther...

This paper challenges the asymmetries of power reproduced in Prime Minister John Howard’s announcement of the Northern Territory Emergency Response. Specifically, I argue that Howard enacts and extends Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s (2004) possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty. His language not only constructs white men as the owners of the ‘Australian’ nation-state but with the suspensi...

An explosion of new data sources describing historical family composition is opening unprecedented opportunities for discovery and analysis. The new data will allow comparative multilevel analysis of spatial patterns and will support studies of the transformation of living arrangements over the past 200 years. Using measurement methods that assess family choices at the individual level and anal...

This study discusses, through bibliographic research, the recurrence of naturalization as basis for the medicalization of the female body, as a means of social control through biological reproduction, whereby behavioral standards, social class, ethnic and race differences are rearranged/redefined. Through this process, male patriarchal and class predominance is maintained and the rift of social...