Erynn Masi De Casanova
Biographic Data
| ID | 189153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erynn Masi De Casanova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erynn Masi |
| FAMILY NAME | De Casanova |
| SIGNATURE | DE CASANOVA E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4240-5570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Polishing the Pearl of the Pacific and the City of Gold: Paid domestic work in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Johannesburg, South Africa
Roundtable discussion: Domestic worker organizing in Latin America and beyond
In 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the Domestic Worker Convention (no. 189), which established labor standards for household workers, including protection from abuse, provisions to ensure freedom of movement for migrant domestic workers, coverage under national minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and human rights laws, and access to contact information of private employers and appropriate legal resources, among others. D…
Dressed for Death: Gender, Respectability, and Resistance at the Gallows
In this paper we examine the dress of execution victims. Executions provide both the convict and the state with an opportunity to claim honor and respectability. Drawing on newspaper accounts of executions conducted between 1840 and 1940, we demonstrate that convict attire reveals an important tension between the convicts' gendered character claims and the efforts by execution managers to arrange a credible execution. But whereas displays of masc…
All the World's a Con: Frontstage, Backstage, and the Blurred Boundaries of Cosplay
Through participant observation and interviews with cosplayers in the midwestern United States, we analyze the boundaries between frontstage and backstage and between self and persona (character) in cosplay spaces, where fans dress up as fictional characters. We find that back and front regions bleed into each other without causing the conflict or tension that dramaturgical theorists would predict, and that cosplayers engage in varying degrees of…
Polluted Bodies
Domestic employment requires unique physical proximity of bodies from different social classes, and often from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Despite the physical closeness, different strategies are used to reproduce class hierarchies among people, resulting in embodied inequality
Informed But Insecure: Employment Conditions and Social Protection among Paid Domestic Workers in Guayaquil
Salaried domestic labor in private homes in Latin America is informal, precarious, and exploitative, but for thousands of women who have no other options it is their occupation and the sustenance of their families. The results of a study based on 400 surveys of paid domestic workers in Guayaquil, Ecuador, about social protection and labor rights show that workers possess a high level of knowledge about their labor rights but the majority do not b…
A Tale of Two Hoodies
Looking at the label: White-collar men and the meanings of “metrosexual”
How do men feel about the “metrosexual” label? How do their views relate to changing norms of masculine self-presentation and increasing acceptance of “out” gay men? We interviewed 30 US white-collar men, who generally expressed ambivalence about the social category of metrosexual and claimed that the practices associated with it were now the norm, while differentiating between the labels of gay and metrosexual. We argue that metrosexuality raise…
Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador: Ethnographic Explorations of Women’s Embodiment
Gendering Olympians: Olympic Media Guide Profiles of Men and Women Athletes
Media guides are constructed by sports organizations as a means for providing information about their organization to mass media professionals. Research on sports-themed mass media has already shown that women are covered less than men, and that the focus on women athletes is disproportionately on their personal lives and physical appearance, but is this true of materials provided to and used by mass media professionals, or more specifically, med…
Representing the language of the 'other: African American Vernacular English in ethnography
Ethnography is often described as the translation of culture, yet there has been little discussion of actual linguistic translation in ethnography. Many ethnographers engage in research across divides of language that require them to make decisions about how to represent the language of their informants. The privileging of academic Standard English creates dilemmas for ethnographers whose subjects speak stigmatized languages. Based on an analysis…
Bodies Without Borders
1. The Global Martial Circuit and Globalized Bodies Lionel Loh Han Loong 2. West Indian Immigrant Women, Body Politics and Cultural Citizenship Kamille Gentles-Peart 3. Don't You See? (Personal Reflection) Monica Moreno Figueroa 4. New Femininity, Neoliberalism and Young Women's Fashion Blogs in Singapore and Malaysia Joel Gwynne 5. Fashion of Fear: Securing the Body in an Unequal Global World Barbara Sutton 6. My Struggle with the Headscarf (Per…
Global Beauty, Local Bodies
This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of wha
Transnational Body Projects: Media Representations of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Argentina and the United States
Cosmetic surgery tourism (CST) is part of the growing trend known as medical tourism. As people in the global North travel to less affluent countries to modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, their transnational body projects are influenced by both economic "materialities" and traveling cultural "imaginaries." This article presents a content analysis of media representations of cosmetic surgery tourism in a major country sending patient-to…
Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador
Research on bodies and work relies on theoretical perspectives that see the working body as a resource and/or symbol. This study bridges these complementary theories, incorporating two concepts (occupational habitus and body work) that extend and synthesize them into a more holistic model of embodied inequality. Drawing primarily on the accounts of women domestic workers in Ecuador's largest city, I explore the embodied dimensions of domestic wor…
Organizing Identities: Immigrant New Yorkers Negotiating Latinidad 1
Across the United States, immigrants’ rights protests, marches, and demonstrations captured the attention of the public and of lawmakers in the spring of 2006. Much of the rhetoric that emerged from these mobilizations included an assertion of Latino/a immigrant identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in New York City in 2006 and 2007, this article argues that, confronted with a strong and clear organizational discourse…
Divided by borders: Mexican migrants and their children
Multiplying Themselves: Women Cosmetics Sellers in Ecuador
With the “feminization of labor,” more women in developing countries are working for pay, but that work is precarious and often exists in the informal economy. This paper examines the situation of Ecuadorian women selling cosmetics through a multilevel direct sales organization in which earnings are dependent on the amount of product sold and the number of sellers recruited. This relatively new type of gendered, paid employment promises to help w…
New allies for immigration reform: A Cincinnati story
Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations
Mothers in the Field:How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations Tamara Mose Brown (bio) and Erynn Masi de Casanova (bio) Ethnography as a qualitative research method has evolved over time to increasingly demand that social scientists become reflexive by analyzing the effects of their presence in the field. The emphasis on reflexivity means that the researcher acknowledges his or her subjectivity and the consequences of the f…
Spanish Language and Latino Ethnicity In Children’s Television Programs
No Ugly Women: Concepts of Race and Beauty among Adolescent Women in Ecuador
Current research on construction of the female body focuses on non-Hispanic women in the United States. The idealized Latina body, however, is rapidly becoming commodified and objectified in global popular culture. Using standardized and open-ended surveys and group and individual interviews, the author examines the negotiation of sociocultural ideals and body image by adolescents at the intersection of gender, race, and beauty. These young women…
No Ugly Women: Concepts of Race and Beauty among Adolescent Women in Ecuador
Current research on construction of the female body focuses on non-Hispanic women in the United States. The idealized Latina body, however, is rapidly becoming commodified and objectified in global popular culture. Using standardized and open-ended surveys and group and individual interviews, the author examines the negotiation of sociocultural ideals and body image by adolescents at the intersection of gender, race, and beauty. These young women…
Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador
Research on bodies and work relies on theoretical perspectives that see the working body as a resource and/or symbol. This study bridges these complementary theories, incorporating two concepts (occupational habitus and body work) that extend and synthesize them into a more holistic model of embodied inequality. Drawing primarily on the accounts of women domestic workers in Ecuador's largest city, I explore the embodied dimensions of domestic wor…
Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations
Mothers in the Field:How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations Tamara Mose Brown (bio) and Erynn Masi de Casanova (bio) Ethnography as a qualitative research method has evolved over time to increasingly demand that social scientists become reflexive by analyzing the effects of their presence in the field. The emphasis on reflexivity means that the researcher acknowledges his or her subjectivity and the consequences of the f…
Representing the language of the 'other: African American Vernacular English in ethnography
Ethnography is often described as the translation of culture, yet there has been little discussion of actual linguistic translation in ethnography. Many ethnographers engage in research across divides of language that require them to make decisions about how to represent the language of their informants. The privileging of academic Standard English creates dilemmas for ethnographers whose subjects speak stigmatized languages. Based on an analysis…
All the World's a Con: Frontstage, Backstage, and the Blurred Boundaries of Cosplay
Through participant observation and interviews with cosplayers in the midwestern United States, we analyze the boundaries between frontstage and backstage and between self and persona (character) in cosplay spaces, where fans dress up as fictional characters. We find that back and front regions bleed into each other without causing the conflict or tension that dramaturgical theorists would predict, and that cosplayers engage in varying degrees of…
Transnational Body Projects: Media Representations of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Argentina and the United States
Cosmetic surgery tourism (CST) is part of the growing trend known as medical tourism. As people in the global North travel to less affluent countries to modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, their transnational body projects are influenced by both economic "materialities" and traveling cultural "imaginaries." This article presents a content analysis of media representations of cosmetic surgery tourism in a major country sending patient-to…
Roundtable discussion: Domestic worker organizing in Latin America and beyond
In 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the Domestic Worker Convention (no. 189), which established labor standards for household workers, including protection from abuse, provisions to ensure freedom of movement for migrant domestic workers, coverage under national minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and human rights laws, and access to contact information of private employers and appropriate legal resources, among others. D…
Multiplying Themselves: Women Cosmetics Sellers in Ecuador
With the “feminization of labor,” more women in developing countries are working for pay, but that work is precarious and often exists in the informal economy. This paper examines the situation of Ecuadorian women selling cosmetics through a multilevel direct sales organization in which earnings are dependent on the amount of product sold and the number of sellers recruited. This relatively new type of gendered, paid employment promises to help w…
Polishing the Pearl of the Pacific and the City of Gold: Paid domestic work in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Johannesburg, South Africa
A Tale of Two Hoodies
Gendering Olympians: Olympic Media Guide Profiles of Men and Women Athletes
Media guides are constructed by sports organizations as a means for providing information about their organization to mass media professionals. Research on sports-themed mass media has already shown that women are covered less than men, and that the focus on women athletes is disproportionately on their personal lives and physical appearance, but is this true of materials provided to and used by mass media professionals, or more specifically, med…
Organizing Identities: Immigrant New Yorkers Negotiating Latinidad 1
Across the United States, immigrants’ rights protests, marches, and demonstrations captured the attention of the public and of lawmakers in the spring of 2006. Much of the rhetoric that emerged from these mobilizations included an assertion of Latino/a immigrant identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in New York City in 2006 and 2007, this article argues that, confronted with a strong and clear organizational discourse…
No Ugly Women: Concepts of Race and Beauty among Adolescent Women in Ecuador
Current research on construction of the female body focuses on non-Hispanic women in the United States. The idealized Latina body, however, is rapidly becoming commodified and objectified in global popular culture. Using standardized and open-ended surveys and group and individual interviews, the author examines the negotiation of sociocultural ideals and body image by adolescents at the intersection of gender, race, and beauty. These young women…
Spanish Language and Latino Ethnicity In Children’s Television Programs
Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations
Mothers in the Field:How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations Tamara Mose Brown (bio) and Erynn Masi de Casanova (bio) Ethnography as a qualitative research method has evolved over time to increasingly demand that social scientists become reflexive by analyzing the effects of their presence in the field. The emphasis on reflexivity means that the researcher acknowledges his or her subjectivity and the consequences of the f…
New allies for immigration reform: A Cincinnati story
Divided by borders: Mexican migrants and their children
Multiplying Themselves: Women Cosmetics Sellers in Ecuador
With the “feminization of labor,” more women in developing countries are working for pay, but that work is precarious and often exists in the informal economy. This paper examines the situation of Ecuadorian women selling cosmetics through a multilevel direct sales organization in which earnings are dependent on the amount of product sold and the number of sellers recruited. This relatively new type of gendered, paid employment promises to help w…
Organizing Identities: Immigrant New Yorkers Negotiating Latinidad 1
Across the United States, immigrants’ rights protests, marches, and demonstrations captured the attention of the public and of lawmakers in the spring of 2006. Much of the rhetoric that emerged from these mobilizations included an assertion of Latino/a immigrant identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in New York City in 2006 and 2007, this article argues that, confronted with a strong and clear organizational discourse…
Bodies Without Borders
1. The Global Martial Circuit and Globalized Bodies Lionel Loh Han Loong 2. West Indian Immigrant Women, Body Politics and Cultural Citizenship Kamille Gentles-Peart 3. Don't You See? (Personal Reflection) Monica Moreno Figueroa 4. New Femininity, Neoliberalism and Young Women's Fashion Blogs in Singapore and Malaysia Joel Gwynne 5. Fashion of Fear: Securing the Body in an Unequal Global World Barbara Sutton 6. My Struggle with the Headscarf (Per…
Global Beauty, Local Bodies
This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of wha
Transnational Body Projects: Media Representations of Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Argentina and the United States
Cosmetic surgery tourism (CST) is part of the growing trend known as medical tourism. As people in the global North travel to less affluent countries to modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, their transnational body projects are influenced by both economic "materialities" and traveling cultural "imaginaries." This article presents a content analysis of media representations of cosmetic surgery tourism in a major country sending patient-to…
Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador
Research on bodies and work relies on theoretical perspectives that see the working body as a resource and/or symbol. This study bridges these complementary theories, incorporating two concepts (occupational habitus and body work) that extend and synthesize them into a more holistic model of embodied inequality. Drawing primarily on the accounts of women domestic workers in Ecuador's largest city, I explore the embodied dimensions of domestic wor…
Representing the language of the 'other: African American Vernacular English in ethnography
Ethnography is often described as the translation of culture, yet there has been little discussion of actual linguistic translation in ethnography. Many ethnographers engage in research across divides of language that require them to make decisions about how to represent the language of their informants. The privileging of academic Standard English creates dilemmas for ethnographers whose subjects speak stigmatized languages. Based on an analysis…
Gendering Olympians: Olympic Media Guide Profiles of Men and Women Athletes
Media guides are constructed by sports organizations as a means for providing information about their organization to mass media professionals. Research on sports-themed mass media has already shown that women are covered less than men, and that the focus on women athletes is disproportionately on their personal lives and physical appearance, but is this true of materials provided to and used by mass media professionals, or more specifically, med…
Looking at the label: White-collar men and the meanings of “metrosexual”
How do men feel about the “metrosexual” label? How do their views relate to changing norms of masculine self-presentation and increasing acceptance of “out” gay men? We interviewed 30 US white-collar men, who generally expressed ambivalence about the social category of metrosexual and claimed that the practices associated with it were now the norm, while differentiating between the labels of gay and metrosexual. We argue that metrosexuality raise…
Gender, Body, and Medicine in Urban Ecuador: Ethnographic Explorations of Women’s Embodiment
A Tale of Two Hoodies
Informed But Insecure: Employment Conditions and Social Protection among Paid Domestic Workers in Guayaquil
Salaried domestic labor in private homes in Latin America is informal, precarious, and exploitative, but for thousands of women who have no other options it is their occupation and the sustenance of their families. The results of a study based on 400 surveys of paid domestic workers in Guayaquil, Ecuador, about social protection and labor rights show that workers possess a high level of knowledge about their labor rights but the majority do not b…
Polluted Bodies
Domestic employment requires unique physical proximity of bodies from different social classes, and often from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Despite the physical closeness, different strategies are used to reproduce class hierarchies among people, resulting in embodied inequality
All the World's a Con: Frontstage, Backstage, and the Blurred Boundaries of Cosplay
Through participant observation and interviews with cosplayers in the midwestern United States, we analyze the boundaries between frontstage and backstage and between self and persona (character) in cosplay spaces, where fans dress up as fictional characters. We find that back and front regions bleed into each other without causing the conflict or tension that dramaturgical theorists would predict, and that cosplayers engage in varying degrees of…
Dressed for Death: Gender, Respectability, and Resistance at the Gallows
In this paper we examine the dress of execution victims. Executions provide both the convict and the state with an opportunity to claim honor and respectability. Drawing on newspaper accounts of executions conducted between 1840 and 1940, we demonstrate that convict attire reveals an important tension between the convicts' gendered character claims and the efforts by execution managers to arrange a credible execution. But whereas displays of masc…
Roundtable discussion: Domestic worker organizing in Latin America and beyond
In 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the Domestic Worker Convention (no. 189), which established labor standards for household workers, including protection from abuse, provisions to ensure freedom of movement for migrant domestic workers, coverage under national minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and human rights laws, and access to contact information of private employers and appropriate legal resources, among others. D…
Polishing the Pearl of the Pacific and the City of Gold: Paid domestic work in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Johannesburg, South Africa
Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)