Emily W Kane
Biographic Data
| ID | 139990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily W Kane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily W |
| FAMILY NAME | Kane |
| SIGNATURE | KANE E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bates College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 534 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
From Democratic Engagement to Individual Self Sufficiency: Framing Poverty Reduction in Community Action Agency Mission Statements
The Community Action Program was a central component of the War on Poverty, establishing Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in the United States beginning in the 1960’s. CAAs emphasized “maximum feasible participation” from low-income citizens, but that inclusive aim was always in tension with a more top-down model of service provision. This article contributes to the literature on poverty governance by offering a qualitative analysis of the missio…
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements
The literature on decentralized public assistance programs in the United States documents racialized, partisan poverty governance founded on paternalism and individualistic frameworks. This article extends that literature to consider such frameworks in a unique site of poverty governance, Community Action Agencies (CAAs). Established during the War on Poverty in the 1960's, CAAs emphasized “maximum feasible participation” from low‐income citizens…
Beliefs about family policy among US mothers in publicly-subsidised housing: Collective responsibility or individual self-sufficiency
In the context of critiques of welfare policy in the USA, I explore how mothers living in public housing balance notions of individual and collective responsibility for families struggling with poverty. Participants recognise collective responsibility at the institutional level and prefer inclusive approaches to public assistance policy. But the hegemony of individualism in the culture and in the framing of their specific programme pulls them tow…
Maximum Feasible Participation and Paternalistic Culture of Poverty Approaches: Tensions in Commodified Poverty Reduction Curricula
When the U.S. “War on Poverty” was declared in the 1960s, some legislation promoted “maximum feasible participation” by low-income people in solving the structural problem of poverty. More recently, policy has moved toward a punitive approach that focuses on the deficits of people living in poverty. The author analyzes two workbooks that are among the best-selling products conveying the influential Bridges Out of Poverty framework for local pover…
The Neoliberal Baseline? A Community-Based Exploration of Beliefs about Poverty and Social Policy
Drawing on data from community-based research in the United States, this article addresses three key elements of poverty governance identified by scholars critical of neoliberal policy approaches: market-based logic, individualism, and punitive orientation. Comparing low-income residents of an economically challenged community with local middle-class professionals who work with children and families, the analysis documents that both groups endors…
The Baby and the Bathwater: Balancing Disciplinary Debates and Community Engagement to Advance Student Interest in Publicly Engaged Sociology
Sociologists eager to engage in social change work may see both promise and risk in two interrelated movements: initiatives to renew the role of civic and community engagement in higher education and initiatives within the discipline of sociology to advance publicly engaged work. I focus on one specific intersection of those movements by exploring how community-based research (CBR) relates to student attitudes toward the social change potential o…
Predictors of Public Support for Gender-Related Affirmative Action
Drawing on data from the General Social Survey during the period from 1996 through 2006, we explore predictors of support for gender-related affirmative action in the United States. Following the literature on race-based affirmative action, we identify three main domains of predictors, each of which also resonates well with themes within scholarship on gender: interests; gender-related attitudes; and general stratification beliefs. In multivariat…
I wanted a soul mate: Gendered Anticipation and Frameworks of Accountability in Parents' Preferences for Sons and Daughters
This article draws on qualitative interview data from a diverse sample of parents in New England to explore the preferences they recall having for sons or daughters prior to parenthood. Before their children even arrive, potential parents are not only building the foundation for the gendered interests and tendencies they expect those children to have but also sharpening their sense of themselves as gendered persons, through the connections they a…
No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That: Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity
Drawing on qualitative interviews with parents of preschool children, the author addresses parental responses to children's gender nonconformity. The author's analyses indicate that parents welcome what they perceive as gender nonconformity among their young daughters, while their responses in relation to sons are more complex. Many parents across racial and class backgrounds accept or encourage some tendencies they consider atypical for boys. Bu…
For Whom Does Education Enlighten: Race, Gender, Education, and Beliefs about Social Inequality
Beliefs have the potential to obscure and legitimate, or to challenge, inequalities of gender and race. Through an analysis of the association between education and beliefs about racial and gender inequality, this article explores for whom education is most likely to foster beliefs that challenge social inequality. Data from the 1996 General Social Survey suggest that education tends to have a greater positive impact on rejection of group segrega…
Racial and Ethnic Variations in Gender-Related Attitudes
Research on how gender-related attitudes vary across racial/ethnic groups has produced contradictory results, depending upon the type of attitudes addressed. In this chapter, I review the literature on racial and ethnic variations in three broadly defined types of gender attitudes: attitudes toward gender roles; beliefs about the origins and extent of gender inequality; and preferences for social action to reduce gender inequalities. I address th…
Men's and Women's Beliefs About Gender and Sexuality
Feminist scholarship highlighting the importance of sexuality suggests the utility of studying beliefs about gender and sexuality, but the public opinion literature on gender-related attitudes has paid almost no attention to this issue. This research report addresses U.S. men's and women's beliefs about several aspects of sexuality: gender differences in sexual drives, gender inequalities in sexual power, and sexual orientation. The results sugge…
Women's and Men's Constructions of Perceptions of Housework Fairness
Much work on the perceived fairness of the division of housework focuses on what we consider pragmatic approaches (i.e., resources, time availability, and power), but nascent research articulates a more symbolic approach, examining relational meanings of house-work. We examine both perspectives simultaneously. Using the National Survey of Families and Households, we investigate how perceptions of housework fairness for men and women in heterosexu…
Men's and women's perceptions of non-consensual sexual intercourse
Education and Beliefs about Gender Inequality
This paper considers competing claims regarding the role of education in intergroup relations generally and its role in shaping gender ideology in particular. The data presented indicate that education tends to have a greater positive impact on recognition of gender inequality than on endorsement of group-based remedies for such inequality. This pattern is consistent with the argument that education reproduces rather than challenges social inequa…
Dependence and Independence: A Cross-National Analysis of Gender Inequality and Gender Attitudes
The authors argue that women's dependence on men plays a key role in muting challenges to gender inequality, and they explore that argument through an analysis of gender-related attitudes in five countries. Women's dependence at both the societal and the individual levels is associated with less egalitarian gender attitudes; such dependence especially affects women's attitudes, drawing them toward men's less egalitarian views. Societal-level depe…
Family Status and Criticism of Gender Inequality at Home and at Work
The literature on gender attitudes indicates that acceptance of women's involvement in the labor force is greater than acceptance of changes in the domestic division of labor. We argue that this difference exists because challenges to inequality in the home are especially threatening to men's interests and that women's dependence on men plays a role in shaping interpretations of gender inequality. To test these claims, we explore the relationship…
Interviewer Gender and Gender Attitudes
This research addresses the effects of interviewer gender on responses to a broad array of gender-related survey questions, using data from a probability sample of adults in the United States. We focus on whether gender-of-interviewer effects are evident, whether they vary by respondent gender, and whether they vary across several attitudinal domains relevant to gender inequality. While many items do not show statistically significant gender-of-i…
Race, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Gender Stratification
This paper addresses the intersection of race and gender in contemporary American society by exploring how one aspect of gender relations, the degree of agreement between men and women in their attitudes toward gender stratification, varies between blacks and whites. Both black men and black women tend to express more criticism in their gender-related attitudes than whites, and the level of agreement between the sexes is greater for blacks. I int…
Open Survey Questions as Measures of Personal Concern with Issues: A Reanalysis of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties
Emily W. Kane, Howard Schuman, Open Survey Questions as Measures of Personal Concern with Issues: A Reanalysis of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, Sociological Methodology, Vol. 21 (1991), pp. 81-96
Racial and Ethnic Variations in Gender-Related Attitudes
Research on how gender-related attitudes vary across racial/ethnic groups has produced contradictory results, depending upon the type of attitudes addressed. In this chapter, I review the literature on racial and ethnic variations in three broadly defined types of gender attitudes: attitudes toward gender roles; beliefs about the origins and extent of gender inequality; and preferences for social action to reduce gender inequalities. I address th…
No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That: Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity
Drawing on qualitative interviews with parents of preschool children, the author addresses parental responses to children's gender nonconformity. The author's analyses indicate that parents welcome what they perceive as gender nonconformity among their young daughters, while their responses in relation to sons are more complex. Many parents across racial and class backgrounds accept or encourage some tendencies they consider atypical for boys. Bu…
Interviewer Gender and Gender Attitudes
This research addresses the effects of interviewer gender on responses to a broad array of gender-related survey questions, using data from a probability sample of adults in the United States. We focus on whether gender-of-interviewer effects are evident, whether they vary by respondent gender, and whether they vary across several attitudinal domains relevant to gender inequality. While many items do not show statistically significant gender-of-i…
Dependence and Independence: A Cross-National Analysis of Gender Inequality and Gender Attitudes
The authors argue that women's dependence on men plays a key role in muting challenges to gender inequality, and they explore that argument through an analysis of gender-related attitudes in five countries. Women's dependence at both the societal and the individual levels is associated with less egalitarian gender attitudes; such dependence especially affects women's attitudes, drawing them toward men's less egalitarian views. Societal-level depe…
Education and Beliefs about Gender Inequality
This paper considers competing claims regarding the role of education in intergroup relations generally and its role in shaping gender ideology in particular. The data presented indicate that education tends to have a greater positive impact on recognition of gender inequality than on endorsement of group-based remedies for such inequality. This pattern is consistent with the argument that education reproduces rather than challenges social inequa…
Women's and Men's Constructions of Perceptions of Housework Fairness
Much work on the perceived fairness of the division of housework focuses on what we consider pragmatic approaches (i.e., resources, time availability, and power), but nascent research articulates a more symbolic approach, examining relational meanings of house-work. We examine both perspectives simultaneously. Using the National Survey of Families and Households, we investigate how perceptions of housework fairness for men and women in heterosexu…
Predictors of Public Support for Gender-Related Affirmative Action
Drawing on data from the General Social Survey during the period from 1996 through 2006, we explore predictors of support for gender-related affirmative action in the United States. Following the literature on race-based affirmative action, we identify three main domains of predictors, each of which also resonates well with themes within scholarship on gender: interests; gender-related attitudes; and general stratification beliefs. In multivariat…
For Whom Does Education Enlighten: Race, Gender, Education, and Beliefs about Social Inequality
Beliefs have the potential to obscure and legitimate, or to challenge, inequalities of gender and race. Through an analysis of the association between education and beliefs about racial and gender inequality, this article explores for whom education is most likely to foster beliefs that challenge social inequality. Data from the 1996 General Social Survey suggest that education tends to have a greater positive impact on rejection of group segrega…
Race, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Gender Stratification
This paper addresses the intersection of race and gender in contemporary American society by exploring how one aspect of gender relations, the degree of agreement between men and women in their attitudes toward gender stratification, varies between blacks and whites. Both black men and black women tend to express more criticism in their gender-related attitudes than whites, and the level of agreement between the sexes is greater for blacks. I int…
Family Status and Criticism of Gender Inequality at Home and at Work
The literature on gender attitudes indicates that acceptance of women's involvement in the labor force is greater than acceptance of changes in the domestic division of labor. We argue that this difference exists because challenges to inequality in the home are especially threatening to men's interests and that women's dependence on men plays a role in shaping interpretations of gender inequality. To test these claims, we explore the relationship…
Men's and women's perceptions of non-consensual sexual intercourse
Men's and Women's Beliefs About Gender and Sexuality
Feminist scholarship highlighting the importance of sexuality suggests the utility of studying beliefs about gender and sexuality, but the public opinion literature on gender-related attitudes has paid almost no attention to this issue. This research report addresses U.S. men's and women's beliefs about several aspects of sexuality: gender differences in sexual drives, gender inequalities in sexual power, and sexual orientation. The results sugge…
The Neoliberal Baseline? A Community-Based Exploration of Beliefs about Poverty and Social Policy
Drawing on data from community-based research in the United States, this article addresses three key elements of poverty governance identified by scholars critical of neoliberal policy approaches: market-based logic, individualism, and punitive orientation. Comparing low-income residents of an economically challenged community with local middle-class professionals who work with children and families, the analysis documents that both groups endors…
The Baby and the Bathwater: Balancing Disciplinary Debates and Community Engagement to Advance Student Interest in Publicly Engaged Sociology
Sociologists eager to engage in social change work may see both promise and risk in two interrelated movements: initiatives to renew the role of civic and community engagement in higher education and initiatives within the discipline of sociology to advance publicly engaged work. I focus on one specific intersection of those movements by exploring how community-based research (CBR) relates to student attitudes toward the social change potential o…
I wanted a soul mate: Gendered Anticipation and Frameworks of Accountability in Parents' Preferences for Sons and Daughters
This article draws on qualitative interview data from a diverse sample of parents in New England to explore the preferences they recall having for sons or daughters prior to parenthood. Before their children even arrive, potential parents are not only building the foundation for the gendered interests and tendencies they expect those children to have but also sharpening their sense of themselves as gendered persons, through the connections they a…
Maximum Feasible Participation and Paternalistic Culture of Poverty Approaches: Tensions in Commodified Poverty Reduction Curricula
When the U.S. “War on Poverty” was declared in the 1960s, some legislation promoted “maximum feasible participation” by low-income people in solving the structural problem of poverty. More recently, policy has moved toward a punitive approach that focuses on the deficits of people living in poverty. The author analyzes two workbooks that are among the best-selling products conveying the influential Bridges Out of Poverty framework for local pover…
Open Survey Questions as Measures of Personal Concern with Issues: A Reanalysis of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties
Emily W. Kane, Howard Schuman, Open Survey Questions as Measures of Personal Concern with Issues: A Reanalysis of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, Sociological Methodology, Vol. 21 (1991), pp. 81-96
Open Survey Questions as Measures of Personal Concern with Issues: A Reanalysis of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties
Emily W. Kane, Howard Schuman, Open Survey Questions as Measures of Personal Concern with Issues: A Reanalysis of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, Sociological Methodology, Vol. 21 (1991), pp. 81-96
Race, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Gender Stratification
This paper addresses the intersection of race and gender in contemporary American society by exploring how one aspect of gender relations, the degree of agreement between men and women in their attitudes toward gender stratification, varies between blacks and whites. Both black men and black women tend to express more criticism in their gender-related attitudes than whites, and the level of agreement between the sexes is greater for blacks. I int…
Interviewer Gender and Gender Attitudes
This research addresses the effects of interviewer gender on responses to a broad array of gender-related survey questions, using data from a probability sample of adults in the United States. We focus on whether gender-of-interviewer effects are evident, whether they vary by respondent gender, and whether they vary across several attitudinal domains relevant to gender inequality. While many items do not show statistically significant gender-of-i…
Family Status and Criticism of Gender Inequality at Home and at Work
The literature on gender attitudes indicates that acceptance of women's involvement in the labor force is greater than acceptance of changes in the domestic division of labor. We argue that this difference exists because challenges to inequality in the home are especially threatening to men's interests and that women's dependence on men plays a role in shaping interpretations of gender inequality. To test these claims, we explore the relationship…
Men's and women's perceptions of non-consensual sexual intercourse
Education and Beliefs about Gender Inequality
This paper considers competing claims regarding the role of education in intergroup relations generally and its role in shaping gender ideology in particular. The data presented indicate that education tends to have a greater positive impact on recognition of gender inequality than on endorsement of group-based remedies for such inequality. This pattern is consistent with the argument that education reproduces rather than challenges social inequa…
Dependence and Independence: A Cross-National Analysis of Gender Inequality and Gender Attitudes
The authors argue that women's dependence on men plays a key role in muting challenges to gender inequality, and they explore that argument through an analysis of gender-related attitudes in five countries. Women's dependence at both the societal and the individual levels is associated with less egalitarian gender attitudes; such dependence especially affects women's attitudes, drawing them toward men's less egalitarian views. Societal-level depe…
Men's and Women's Beliefs About Gender and Sexuality
Feminist scholarship highlighting the importance of sexuality suggests the utility of studying beliefs about gender and sexuality, but the public opinion literature on gender-related attitudes has paid almost no attention to this issue. This research report addresses U.S. men's and women's beliefs about several aspects of sexuality: gender differences in sexual drives, gender inequalities in sexual power, and sexual orientation. The results sugge…
Women's and Men's Constructions of Perceptions of Housework Fairness
Much work on the perceived fairness of the division of housework focuses on what we consider pragmatic approaches (i.e., resources, time availability, and power), but nascent research articulates a more symbolic approach, examining relational meanings of house-work. We examine both perspectives simultaneously. Using the National Survey of Families and Households, we investigate how perceptions of housework fairness for men and women in heterosexu…
Racial and Ethnic Variations in Gender-Related Attitudes
Research on how gender-related attitudes vary across racial/ethnic groups has produced contradictory results, depending upon the type of attitudes addressed. In this chapter, I review the literature on racial and ethnic variations in three broadly defined types of gender attitudes: attitudes toward gender roles; beliefs about the origins and extent of gender inequality; and preferences for social action to reduce gender inequalities. I address th…
For Whom Does Education Enlighten: Race, Gender, Education, and Beliefs about Social Inequality
Beliefs have the potential to obscure and legitimate, or to challenge, inequalities of gender and race. Through an analysis of the association between education and beliefs about racial and gender inequality, this article explores for whom education is most likely to foster beliefs that challenge social inequality. Data from the 1996 General Social Survey suggest that education tends to have a greater positive impact on rejection of group segrega…
No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That: Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity
Drawing on qualitative interviews with parents of preschool children, the author addresses parental responses to children's gender nonconformity. The author's analyses indicate that parents welcome what they perceive as gender nonconformity among their young daughters, while their responses in relation to sons are more complex. Many parents across racial and class backgrounds accept or encourage some tendencies they consider atypical for boys. Bu…
Predictors of Public Support for Gender-Related Affirmative Action
Drawing on data from the General Social Survey during the period from 1996 through 2006, we explore predictors of support for gender-related affirmative action in the United States. Following the literature on race-based affirmative action, we identify three main domains of predictors, each of which also resonates well with themes within scholarship on gender: interests; gender-related attitudes; and general stratification beliefs. In multivariat…
I wanted a soul mate: Gendered Anticipation and Frameworks of Accountability in Parents' Preferences for Sons and Daughters
This article draws on qualitative interview data from a diverse sample of parents in New England to explore the preferences they recall having for sons or daughters prior to parenthood. Before their children even arrive, potential parents are not only building the foundation for the gendered interests and tendencies they expect those children to have but also sharpening their sense of themselves as gendered persons, through the connections they a…
The Baby and the Bathwater: Balancing Disciplinary Debates and Community Engagement to Advance Student Interest in Publicly Engaged Sociology
Sociologists eager to engage in social change work may see both promise and risk in two interrelated movements: initiatives to renew the role of civic and community engagement in higher education and initiatives within the discipline of sociology to advance publicly engaged work. I focus on one specific intersection of those movements by exploring how community-based research (CBR) relates to student attitudes toward the social change potential o…
The Neoliberal Baseline? A Community-Based Exploration of Beliefs about Poverty and Social Policy
Drawing on data from community-based research in the United States, this article addresses three key elements of poverty governance identified by scholars critical of neoliberal policy approaches: market-based logic, individualism, and punitive orientation. Comparing low-income residents of an economically challenged community with local middle-class professionals who work with children and families, the analysis documents that both groups endors…
Beliefs about family policy among US mothers in publicly-subsidised housing: Collective responsibility or individual self-sufficiency
In the context of critiques of welfare policy in the USA, I explore how mothers living in public housing balance notions of individual and collective responsibility for families struggling with poverty. Participants recognise collective responsibility at the institutional level and prefer inclusive approaches to public assistance policy. But the hegemony of individualism in the culture and in the framing of their specific programme pulls them tow…
Maximum Feasible Participation and Paternalistic Culture of Poverty Approaches: Tensions in Commodified Poverty Reduction Curricula
When the U.S. “War on Poverty” was declared in the 1960s, some legislation promoted “maximum feasible participation” by low-income people in solving the structural problem of poverty. More recently, policy has moved toward a punitive approach that focuses on the deficits of people living in poverty. The author analyzes two workbooks that are among the best-selling products conveying the influential Bridges Out of Poverty framework for local pover…
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements
The literature on decentralized public assistance programs in the United States documents racialized, partisan poverty governance founded on paternalism and individualistic frameworks. This article extends that literature to consider such frameworks in a unique site of poverty governance, Community Action Agencies (CAAs). Established during the War on Poverty in the 1960's, CAAs emphasized “maximum feasible participation” from low‐income citizens…
From Democratic Engagement to Individual Self Sufficiency: Framing Poverty Reduction in Community Action Agency Mission Statements
The Community Action Program was a central component of the War on Poverty, establishing Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in the United States beginning in the 1960’s. CAAs emphasized “maximum feasible participation” from low-income citizens, but that inclusive aim was always in tension with a more top-down model of service provision. This article contributes to the literature on poverty governance by offering a qualitative analysis of the missio…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (6 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Law (6 works)