Elizabeth Borland
Biographic Data
| ID | 128128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Borland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Borland |
| SIGNATURE | BORLAND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6780-7605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Justice and Parental Blameworthiness: Gender and Racial Disparities in the Criminalization of Hot Car Deaths
Nearly 40 children per year die in hot cars in the US. In the aftermath of a “hot car death,” police make decisions about arrests, and prosecutors determine what type of punishment, if any, a parent should face. These cases offer a unique opportunity to compare parents responsible for the accidental death of their children, highlighting the interplay of gender and race in sociolegal responses. By focusing on similar circumstances with differing p…
Feminist Politics, Coalition Building, and Movement Legacies: Abortion Rights Activism in Argentina since the 2001 Crisis
Around two decades after Argentina's 2001 crisis, the abortion rights movement flourished, becoming a powerful force against obstacles to reproductive justice in the country and mobilizing massive numbers of people from all walks of life to successfully demand the legalization of abortion. The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion was launched in 2005, but the seeds for several of its key features were planted during t…
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline. We begin with an overview of community-engaged scholarship and how it is related to and distinct from public sociology. Five main principles of community-engaged work are highlighted: (1) reciprocity and mutual benefit; (2) ethics…
Periods, Penises, and Patriarchy: Perspective Taking and Attitudes about Gender among Middle School, High School, and College Students
Although many studies examine gender perceptions among adults, fewer ask children to report on their personal views and experiences of gender. The authors use an open-ended survey to ask middle school, high school, and college students what they think is best and worst about being a boy and a girl to analyze how gender perceptions vary between younger and older children. The authors find that girls' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of be…
Gender, type of higher education institution, and faculty work-life integration in the United States
Although many academics in the United States assume that work-life balance, especially for women, is better at teaching-intensive colleges than at research-intensive universities, there is no systematic data to support this belief. We analyzed survey data from 909 faculty at a research-intensive public university, a masters-level public college, and two private colleges to test this assumption. Consistent with their reputation, faculty at the thr…
Queering abortion rights: Notes from Argentina
In recent years, there have been calls in activist spaces to 'queer' abortion rights advocacy, to incorporate non-normative notions of gender identity and sexuality into abortion struggles and services. Argentina provides an interesting site in which to examine these developments, since there is a longstanding movement for abortion rights in a context of illegal abortion and a recent ground-breaking Gender Identity Law that recognises key trans r…
Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics
Storytelling, Identity, and Strategy: Perceiving Shifting Obstacles in the Fight for Abortion Rights in Argentina
How do activists perceive and interpret changing obstacles and opportunities? Studying narratives can help us to address unanswered questions about activist perception and attribution of the opportunity structure. I analyze the stories told by activists in the movement to legalize abortion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, drawing on ethnographic and interview data from three periods of fieldwork over the last 15 years. Although they talked about obsta…
Using the Sociological Imagination to Teach about Academic Integrity
The sociological imagination is a useful tool for teaching about plagiarism and academic integrity, and, in turn, academic integrity is a good case to help students learn about the sociological imagination. We present an exercise in which the class discusses reasons for and consequences of dishonest academic behavior and then examines a series of scenarios using the sociological imagination. Students and instructors consider whether each scenario…
Framing Abortion Rights in Argentina's Encuentros Nacionales de Mujeres
FramingAbortion Rights in Argentina's EncuentrosNacionales de Mujeres Barbara Suttonand Elizabeth Borland A recent television broadcast in Argentina showed a remarkable scene that highlights the inroads made by Argentine abortion rights activists in the last few years.1 Fifty or so legislators across gender and party lines endorsed a bill to legalize abortion, with a number of them participating in a 2012 press conference announcing the initiativ…
Bachelorhood and Men's Attitudes about Gender Roles
This paper examines the gendered domestic division of labor and men's attitudes regarding gender roles. It focuses on a potential catalyst for changing gender attitudes: bachelorhood. Because social conditions increasingly delay heterosexual men's movement toward marriage, it is important to consider the significance of the period between childhood and marriage. Using the NLSY, we find that the longer a man lives independently—outside his parents…
Quotidian Disruption and Women's Activism in Times of Crisis, Argentina 2002-2003
Argentina recently underwent a period of economic crisis that shook societal foundations. People turned to collective action for social and political change, and women were at the forefront of many protests. This crisis offers an opportunity to study a moment of 'quotidian disruption'-when routine practices and ingrained assumptions are threatened-as an impetus for mobilization. The authors draw on ethnographic observations and analyze 44 in-dept…
Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo en la era neoliberal: Ampliando objetivos para unir el pasado,el presente y el futuro
More than 25 years after their sons and daughters were disappeared, Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo continue to march for justice every week and have a prominent role in Argentina’s social movement sector. They have extended their fight against impunity to include demands for peace and human rights around the world, and to address neoliberalism and the recent economic crisis in Argentina. How have the Madres broadened their resistance by expanding th…
Cultural Opportunities and Tactical Choice in the Argentine and Chilean Reproductive Rights Movements
Reproductive rights movements throughout Latin America contend with the strong influence of the Catholic Church. In Argentina and Chile, two predominately Catholic countries where abortion is illegal yet common, reproductive rights activists see the church as their focal opponent. Analyzing data on the reproductive rights movement in each case, I argue that cultural opportunity is important for understanding the ways that activists address religi…
Home bound: Filipino American lives across cultures, communities, and countries
Framing Abortion Rights in Argentina's Encuentros Nacionales de Mujeres
FramingAbortion Rights in Argentina's EncuentrosNacionales de Mujeres Barbara Suttonand Elizabeth Borland A recent television broadcast in Argentina showed a remarkable scene that highlights the inroads made by Argentine abortion rights activists in the last few years.1 Fifty or so legislators across gender and party lines endorsed a bill to legalize abortion, with a number of them participating in a 2012 press conference announcing the initiativ…
Cultural Opportunities and Tactical Choice in the Argentine and Chilean Reproductive Rights Movements
Reproductive rights movements throughout Latin America contend with the strong influence of the Catholic Church. In Argentina and Chile, two predominately Catholic countries where abortion is illegal yet common, reproductive rights activists see the church as their focal opponent. Analyzing data on the reproductive rights movement in each case, I argue that cultural opportunity is important for understanding the ways that activists address religi…
Quotidian Disruption and Women's Activism in Times of Crisis, Argentina 2002-2003
Argentina recently underwent a period of economic crisis that shook societal foundations. People turned to collective action for social and political change, and women were at the forefront of many protests. This crisis offers an opportunity to study a moment of 'quotidian disruption'-when routine practices and ingrained assumptions are threatened-as an impetus for mobilization. The authors draw on ethnographic observations and analyze 44 in-dept…
Storytelling, Identity, and Strategy: Perceiving Shifting Obstacles in the Fight for Abortion Rights in Argentina
How do activists perceive and interpret changing obstacles and opportunities? Studying narratives can help us to address unanswered questions about activist perception and attribution of the opportunity structure. I analyze the stories told by activists in the movement to legalize abortion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, drawing on ethnographic and interview data from three periods of fieldwork over the last 15 years. Although they talked about obsta…
Using the Sociological Imagination to Teach about Academic Integrity
The sociological imagination is a useful tool for teaching about plagiarism and academic integrity, and, in turn, academic integrity is a good case to help students learn about the sociological imagination. We present an exercise in which the class discusses reasons for and consequences of dishonest academic behavior and then examines a series of scenarios using the sociological imagination. Students and instructors consider whether each scenario…
Gender, type of higher education institution, and faculty work-life integration in the United States
Although many academics in the United States assume that work-life balance, especially for women, is better at teaching-intensive colleges than at research-intensive universities, there is no systematic data to support this belief. We analyzed survey data from 909 faculty at a research-intensive public university, a masters-level public college, and two private colleges to test this assumption. Consistent with their reputation, faculty at the thr…
Bachelorhood and Men's Attitudes about Gender Roles
This paper examines the gendered domestic division of labor and men's attitudes regarding gender roles. It focuses on a potential catalyst for changing gender attitudes: bachelorhood. Because social conditions increasingly delay heterosexual men's movement toward marriage, it is important to consider the significance of the period between childhood and marriage. Using the NLSY, we find that the longer a man lives independently—outside his parents…
Feminist Politics, Coalition Building, and Movement Legacies: Abortion Rights Activism in Argentina since the 2001 Crisis
Around two decades after Argentina's 2001 crisis, the abortion rights movement flourished, becoming a powerful force against obstacles to reproductive justice in the country and mobilizing massive numbers of people from all walks of life to successfully demand the legalization of abortion. The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion was launched in 2005, but the seeds for several of its key features were planted during t…
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline. We begin with an overview of community-engaged scholarship and how it is related to and distinct from public sociology. Five main principles of community-engaged work are highlighted: (1) reciprocity and mutual benefit; (2) ethics…
Periods, Penises, and Patriarchy: Perspective Taking and Attitudes about Gender among Middle School, High School, and College Students
Although many studies examine gender perceptions among adults, fewer ask children to report on their personal views and experiences of gender. The authors use an open-ended survey to ask middle school, high school, and college students what they think is best and worst about being a boy and a girl to analyze how gender perceptions vary between younger and older children. The authors find that girls' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of be…
Cultural Opportunities and Tactical Choice in the Argentine and Chilean Reproductive Rights Movements
Reproductive rights movements throughout Latin America contend with the strong influence of the Catholic Church. In Argentina and Chile, two predominately Catholic countries where abortion is illegal yet common, reproductive rights activists see the church as their focal opponent. Analyzing data on the reproductive rights movement in each case, I argue that cultural opportunity is important for understanding the ways that activists address religi…
Home bound: Filipino American lives across cultures, communities, and countries
Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo en la era neoliberal: Ampliando objetivos para unir el pasado,el presente y el futuro
More than 25 years after their sons and daughters were disappeared, Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo continue to march for justice every week and have a prominent role in Argentina’s social movement sector. They have extended their fight against impunity to include demands for peace and human rights around the world, and to address neoliberalism and the recent economic crisis in Argentina. How have the Madres broadened their resistance by expanding th…
Quotidian Disruption and Women's Activism in Times of Crisis, Argentina 2002-2003
Argentina recently underwent a period of economic crisis that shook societal foundations. People turned to collective action for social and political change, and women were at the forefront of many protests. This crisis offers an opportunity to study a moment of 'quotidian disruption'-when routine practices and ingrained assumptions are threatened-as an impetus for mobilization. The authors draw on ethnographic observations and analyze 44 in-dept…
Bachelorhood and Men's Attitudes about Gender Roles
This paper examines the gendered domestic division of labor and men's attitudes regarding gender roles. It focuses on a potential catalyst for changing gender attitudes: bachelorhood. Because social conditions increasingly delay heterosexual men's movement toward marriage, it is important to consider the significance of the period between childhood and marriage. Using the NLSY, we find that the longer a man lives independently—outside his parents…
Using the Sociological Imagination to Teach about Academic Integrity
The sociological imagination is a useful tool for teaching about plagiarism and academic integrity, and, in turn, academic integrity is a good case to help students learn about the sociological imagination. We present an exercise in which the class discusses reasons for and consequences of dishonest academic behavior and then examines a series of scenarios using the sociological imagination. Students and instructors consider whether each scenario…
Framing Abortion Rights in Argentina's Encuentros Nacionales de Mujeres
FramingAbortion Rights in Argentina's EncuentrosNacionales de Mujeres Barbara Suttonand Elizabeth Borland A recent television broadcast in Argentina showed a remarkable scene that highlights the inroads made by Argentine abortion rights activists in the last few years.1 Fifty or so legislators across gender and party lines endorsed a bill to legalize abortion, with a number of them participating in a 2012 press conference announcing the initiativ…
Storytelling, Identity, and Strategy: Perceiving Shifting Obstacles in the Fight for Abortion Rights in Argentina
How do activists perceive and interpret changing obstacles and opportunities? Studying narratives can help us to address unanswered questions about activist perception and attribution of the opportunity structure. I analyze the stories told by activists in the movement to legalize abortion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, drawing on ethnographic and interview data from three periods of fieldwork over the last 15 years. Although they talked about obsta…
Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics
Queering abortion rights: Notes from Argentina
In recent years, there have been calls in activist spaces to 'queer' abortion rights advocacy, to incorporate non-normative notions of gender identity and sexuality into abortion struggles and services. Argentina provides an interesting site in which to examine these developments, since there is a longstanding movement for abortion rights in a context of illegal abortion and a recent ground-breaking Gender Identity Law that recognises key trans r…
Periods, Penises, and Patriarchy: Perspective Taking and Attitudes about Gender among Middle School, High School, and College Students
Although many studies examine gender perceptions among adults, fewer ask children to report on their personal views and experiences of gender. The authors use an open-ended survey to ask middle school, high school, and college students what they think is best and worst about being a boy and a girl to analyze how gender perceptions vary between younger and older children. The authors find that girls' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of be…
Gender, type of higher education institution, and faculty work-life integration in the United States
Although many academics in the United States assume that work-life balance, especially for women, is better at teaching-intensive colleges than at research-intensive universities, there is no systematic data to support this belief. We analyzed survey data from 909 faculty at a research-intensive public university, a masters-level public college, and two private colleges to test this assumption. Consistent with their reputation, faculty at the thr…
Feminist Politics, Coalition Building, and Movement Legacies: Abortion Rights Activism in Argentina since the 2001 Crisis
Around two decades after Argentina's 2001 crisis, the abortion rights movement flourished, becoming a powerful force against obstacles to reproductive justice in the country and mobilizing massive numbers of people from all walks of life to successfully demand the legalization of abortion. The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion was launched in 2005, but the seeds for several of its key features were planted during t…
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline. We begin with an overview of community-engaged scholarship and how it is related to and distinct from public sociology. Five main principles of community-engaged work are highlighted: (1) reciprocity and mutual benefit; (2) ethics…
Justice and Parental Blameworthiness: Gender and Racial Disparities in the Criminalization of Hot Car Deaths
Nearly 40 children per year die in hot cars in the US. In the aftermath of a “hot car death,” police make decisions about arrests, and prosecutors determine what type of punishment, if any, a parent should face. These cases offer a unique opportunity to compare parents responsible for the accidental death of their children, highlighting the interplay of gender and race in sociolegal responses. By focusing on similar circumstances with differing p…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Abortion (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)