Mimi Schippers
Biographic Data
| ID | 209055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mimi Schippers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mimi |
| FAMILY NAME | Schippers |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIPPERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 405 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy: Polyamory, Polygamy, and Reality Television
what role does spirituality and religion play in polyamorists’ and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists’ practice of consensual nonmonogamy? How do recent reality television representations of these populations portray polyamory and polygamy, and how do practitioners interpret and understand these representations? These are some of the questions Michelle Mueller addresses in her book, New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy.As Mueller outlin…
Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement
Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives
This special issue explores key issues regarding the parenting practices within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous intimate relationships. The contributions are concerned with the stigmatization of child-care practices that deviate from the default of couple-based monogamy, exceed biological definitions of kinship and experiment with new forms of spatial organization beyond shared residence. In this introduction, we highlight key themes …
Polyamory
This entry defines and contextualizes polyamory as a relationships structure. It reviews the relevant issues around gender and feminism, including effects on gendered self, gendered division of labor in the home, and the norms and meaning of particular and innovative social positions within polyamory subcultures
Beyond monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In…
Reading Pulp Fiction: Femininity and power in second and third wave feminist theory
This article adds to the growing literature distinguishing second and third wave feminist theory. It opens by outlining theoretical differences between second wave and third wave definitions of femininity and the role and impact of femininity on gender relations of domination, whilst briefly acknowledging the complications of the relationship between third wave feminism and post-feminism. It then suggests that these diverging perspectives on embo…
Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis
Doing Difference/Doing Power: Negotiations of Race and Gender in a Mentoring Program
This study is an empirical exploration of how people negotiate structural inequality and interpersonal power relations through the interactive accomplishment of difference. The author presents data on a mentoring program in which college women were paired with middle school girls across race, class, and age differences. The data show white mentors' status and authority depended less on the program's structure and more on the middle school girls' …
Recovering the feminine other: Masculinity, femininity, and gender hegemony
Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music
The Social Organization of Sexuality and Gender in Alternative Hard Rock: An Analysis of Intersectionality
This article provides an empirical example and an analytic argument for how queer theory can be useful for sociological inquiries of gender relations. Using data collected through participant observation of a rock music subculture, the author addresses the importance of conceptualizing sexuality and gender as analytically distinct. There are five major findings drawn from this analysis. First, members of this subculture queered sexuality despite …
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…
Recovering the feminine other: Masculinity, femininity, and gender hegemony
The Social Organization of Sexuality and Gender in Alternative Hard Rock: An Analysis of Intersectionality
This article provides an empirical example and an analytic argument for how queer theory can be useful for sociological inquiries of gender relations. Using data collected through participant observation of a rock music subculture, the author addresses the importance of conceptualizing sexuality and gender as analytically distinct. There are five major findings drawn from this analysis. First, members of this subculture queered sexuality despite …
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…
Doing Difference/Doing Power: Negotiations of Race and Gender in a Mentoring Program
This study is an empirical exploration of how people negotiate structural inequality and interpersonal power relations through the interactive accomplishment of difference. The author presents data on a mentoring program in which college women were paired with middle school girls across race, class, and age differences. The data show white mentors' status and authority depended less on the program's structure and more on the middle school girls' …
Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis
Reading Pulp Fiction: Femininity and power in second and third wave feminist theory
This article adds to the growing literature distinguishing second and third wave feminist theory. It opens by outlining theoretical differences between second wave and third wave definitions of femininity and the role and impact of femininity on gender relations of domination, whilst briefly acknowledging the complications of the relationship between third wave feminism and post-feminism. It then suggests that these diverging perspectives on embo…
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…
Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music
The Social Organization of Sexuality and Gender in Alternative Hard Rock: An Analysis of Intersectionality
This article provides an empirical example and an analytic argument for how queer theory can be useful for sociological inquiries of gender relations. Using data collected through participant observation of a rock music subculture, the author addresses the importance of conceptualizing sexuality and gender as analytically distinct. There are five major findings drawn from this analysis. First, members of this subculture queered sexuality despite …
Recovering the feminine other: Masculinity, femininity, and gender hegemony
Doing Difference/Doing Power: Negotiations of Race and Gender in a Mentoring Program
This study is an empirical exploration of how people negotiate structural inequality and interpersonal power relations through the interactive accomplishment of difference. The author presents data on a mentoring program in which college women were paired with middle school girls across race, class, and age differences. The data show white mentors' status and authority depended less on the program's structure and more on the middle school girls' …
Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis
Reading Pulp Fiction: Femininity and power in second and third wave feminist theory
This article adds to the growing literature distinguishing second and third wave feminist theory. It opens by outlining theoretical differences between second wave and third wave definitions of femininity and the role and impact of femininity on gender relations of domination, whilst briefly acknowledging the complications of the relationship between third wave feminism and post-feminism. It then suggests that these diverging perspectives on embo…
Beyond monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities
A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In…
Polyamory
This entry defines and contextualizes polyamory as a relationships structure. It reviews the relevant issues around gender and feminism, including effects on gendered self, gendered division of labor in the home, and the norms and meaning of particular and innovative social positions within polyamory subcultures
New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy: Polyamory, Polygamy, and Reality Television
what role does spirituality and religion play in polyamorists’ and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists’ practice of consensual nonmonogamy? How do recent reality television representations of these populations portray polyamory and polygamy, and how do practitioners interpret and understand these representations? These are some of the questions Michelle Mueller addresses in her book, New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy.As Mueller outlin…
Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement
Introduction: Parenting, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy. Critical and queer perspectives
This special issue explores key issues regarding the parenting practices within polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous intimate relationships. The contributions are concerned with the stigmatization of child-care practices that deviate from the default of couple-based monogamy, exceed biological definitions of kinship and experiment with new forms of spatial organization beyond shared residence. In this introduction, we highlight key themes …
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (5 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)