Research Guides: WGQS_1_Burrill_ Intro to Women’s Studies: Weeks 1-3 Intersectional Identity

Week 1-3 Intersectional Identity

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A kaleidoscope of identities : reflexivity, routine, and the fluidity of sex, gender, and sexuality

Sporting Gender: The History, Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes

The Psychology of Inequity: Motivation and Beliefs

Stereotypes: the Incidence and Impacts of Bias

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"Framework for Understanding Inequality in Income and Opportunity" - Book Chapter 2
"Trends in Inequality" Book Chapter 3
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Local Gender-Based Earnings Inequality and Women's Belief in the American Dream
The Effects of Women's Labor Force Participation: The Effects of Women's Labor Force Participation: An Explanation of Changes in Household Income Inequality Abstract Some previous studies of the relationship between women's labor force participation and household income inequality indicate that the promotion of the former has an equalizing effect on the latter; other studies insist that the promotion of women's labor force participation has a widening effect on household income inequality by way of the tendency toward assortative marriage. Hence, the relationship between women's labor force participation and household income inequality is unclear in the literature. This study aims to clarify the mechanism through which the interaction between household income and marriage produces social inequality by using mathematical and simulation-based approaches. The presented findings suggest that the promotion of women's labor force participation has a temporary widening effect on household income inequality, but an attenuating effect in the long run. They also state that assortative marriage itself has no widening effect on household income inequality, but rather an accelerating effect on widening inequality. Finally, by applying the model of that mechanism to Japan, I examine changes in household income inequality in that country.
Failure to Respond to Rising Income Inequality: Processes That Legitimize Growing Disparities Abstract Why is there not more public outcry in the face of rising income inequality? Although public choice models predict that rising inequality will spur public demand for redistribution, evidence often fails to support this view. We explain this lack of outcry by considering social-psychological processes contextualized within the spatial, institutional, and political context that combine to dampen dissent. We contend that rising inequality can activate the very psychological processes that stifle outcry, causing people to be blind to the true extent of inequality, to legitimize rising disparities, and to reject redistribution as an effective solution. As a result, these psychological processes reproduce and exacerbate inequality and legitimize the institutions that produce it. Finally, we explore ways to disrupt the processes perpetuating this cycle.
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies
Rising Inequality in Family Incomes and Children's Educational Outcomes

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"The Intersectionality Wars" - Vox "When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral."
"The Origin of the Term Intersectionality" - Columbia Journalism Review "An “intersection,” we all know, is where two streets cross, or “intersect.” We usually think of an “intersection” as a meeting of two roads, though the original Latin word “intersect” means “to cut asunder” or “divide into parts.” Add the suffix “al,” and you have the adjective “intersectional,” existing between sections or relating to an intersection. Make “intersectional” into a noun, and you have a sports tournament."
"What's Intersectionality? Let These Scholars Explain the Theory and Its History" - Time "The movement to expand feminism beyond the provincialism of mainstream discourse is now in its sixth decade. One place where that change is clear is at the Feminist Freedom Warriors Project (FFW) at Syracuse University, the brainchild of transnational feminist scholars Linda E. Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Their 2015 survey of transnational feminism was the foundation for FFW, a first-of-its-kind digital video archive focused on the struggles of women of color of the Global South (Africa, India and Latin America) and North (U.S., Canada, Japan). “FFW is a project about cross-generation histories of feminist activism,” its founders, Carty and Mohanty, said in an email, “addressing economic, anti-racist, social justice issues across national borders.”"
"6 Facts About Economic Inequality in the U.S." - Pew Research Center
"Key Findings on the Rise in Income Inequality within America's Racial and Ethnic Groups" - Pew Research Center