Current research on construction of the female body focuses non-Hispanic women in United States. The idealized Latina body, however, is rapidly becoming commodified and objectified global popular culture. Using standardized open-ended surveys group individual interviews, author examines negotiation sociocultural ideals image by adolescents at intersection gender, race, beauty. These young hold racist beauty but are flexible when judging appearance real-life women. They perceive two competing...

Research on bodies and work relies theoretical perspectives that see the working body as a resource and/or symbol. This study bridges these complementary theories, incorporating two concepts (occupational habitus work) extend synthesize them into more holistic model of embodied inequality. Drawing primarily accounts women domestic workers in Ecuador’s largest city, I explore dimensions show how unequal relations between employers manifest bodies, specifically through interactions around...

Abstract In 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted Domestic Worker Convention (no. 189), which established labor standards for household workers, including protection from abuse, provisions to ensure freedom of movement migrant domestic coverage under national minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and human rights laws, access contact information private employers appropriate legal resources, among others. worker advocates throughout Latin America rallied behind ILO's its...

How do men feel about the “metrosexual” label? their views relate to changing norms of masculine self-presentation and increasing acceptance “out” gay men? We interviewed 30 US white-collar men, who generally expressed ambivalence social category metrosexual claimed that practices associated with it were now norm, while differentiating between labels metrosexual. argue metrosexuality raises new possibilities for gay-straight alliances more varied performances heterosexual masculinity, at...

Mothers in the Field:How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations Tamara Mose Brown (bio) Erynn Masi de Casanova Ethnography as a qualitative research method has evolved over time to increasingly demand that social scientists become reflexive by analyzing effects of their presence field. The emphasis on reflexivity means researcher acknowledges his or her subjectivity consequences fact ethnographer is, words Robert Smith, "his own tool" (2006, 351). dynamics created...

Cosmetic surgery tourism (CST) is part of the growing trend known as medical tourism. As people in global North travel to less affluent countries modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, transnational body projects are influenced by both economic "materialities" and traveling cultural "imaginaries." This article presents a content analysis media representations major country sending patient-tourists (the United States) popular receiving (Argentina). The power relations globalization...

Abstract With the "feminization of labor," more women in developing countries are working for pay, but that work is precarious and often exists informal economy. This paper examines situation Ecuadorian selling cosmetics through a multilevel direct sales organization which earnings dependent on amount product sold number sellers recruited. relatively new type gendered, paid employment promises to help achieve balance between family responsibilities. Using ethnographic methods explore...

Media guides are constructed by sports organizations as a means for providing information about their organization to mass media professionals. Research on sports-themed has already shown that women covered less than men, and the focus athletes is disproportionately personal lives physical appearance, but this true of materials provided used professionals, or more specifically, guides? This research examines textual content 637 athlete profiles in 2008 U.S. Olympic Guide using quantitative...

Ethnography is often described as the translation of culture, yet there has been little discussion actual linguistic in ethnography. Many ethnographers engage research across divides language that require them to make decisions about how represent their informants. The privileging academic Standard English creates dilemmas for whose subjects speak stigmatized languages. Based on an analysis 32 book-length ethnographies African Americans (reviewed American Journal Sociology between 1999 and...

Salaried domestic labor in private homes Latin America is informal, precarious, and exploitative, but for thousands of women who have no other options it their occupation the sustenance families. The results a study based on 400 surveys paid workers Guayaquil, Ecuador, about social protection rights show that possess high level knowledge majority do not belong to security system many enjoy any benefits guaranteed them by law. Understanding situation experiences these precondition creating...

Abstract Ethnography refers to in-depth participant observation research and the written report that results, is often described metaphorically as a type of “cultural translation.” Little attention has been paid, however, actual linguistic translation occurs in process writing, even interdisciplinary field Latin American Studies, which conducted language other than English up English. The privileging academic Standard ethnographic texts creates dilemmas for ethnographers whose participants...

Through participant observation and interviews with cosplayers in the midwestern United States, we analyze boundaries between frontstage backstage self persona (character) cosplay spaces, where fans dress up as fictional characters. We find that back front regions bleed into each other without causing conflict or tension dramaturgical theorists would predict, engage varying degrees of theatrical performance when costume. This blurring front/back self/character is part what makes pleasurable....

Across the United States, immigrants’ rights protests, marches, and demonstrations captured attention of public lawmakers in spring 2006. Much rhetoric that emerged from these mobilizations included an assertion Latino/a immigrant identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork interviews conducted New York City 2006 2007, this article argues that, confronted with a strong clear organizational discourse pan‐ethnic unity, Latin American immigrants articulated variety identities. I found no link...

Journal Article Review of "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" Get access By Alka Vaid Menon University California Press, 2023. 304 pages, Prices (cloth and paper): $95.00 (hardcover); $29.95 (paperback) https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520386723/refashioning-race Erynn Masi de Casanova Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, soae036, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae036 Published: 31 March 2024...