On April 5, 2015 the New York Times ran a front page article, above the fold, with the headline “Transgender Woman Cites Attacks and Abuse in Men’s Prisons” (Sontag 2015, 1). This high profile case puts front and center—and makes painfully vivid—“deliberate defeminizing.” Treating prisons as a total institution and as a stratifying organization organized … Read more
Whiteness Studies and the critical analysis of representations of white people in culture, literature or film have been well-established in American research contexts. European scholarship has been slow in taking up these ideas, and it has even been argued that whiteness is irrelevant to European cultures, literatures and social frameworks. In my research, I have … Read more
Harassment research has failed to systematically integrate the ways in which membership in multiple devalued social status groups impacts the harassment experience and subsequent health outcomes. Nevertheless, multiple social status dimensions (e.g., gender, race, age, social class) create unique experiences of victimization and contribute to educational/occupational, economic, and health disparities across diverse groups. Research shows … Read more