Amy C Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 232805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy C Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy C |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Gang's All Queer
Secure girls
Public discourse is replete with talk about the fragility of young women’s self-esteem, linking poor self-concept to a range of social problems associated with girlhood. We know little about the impact of these ideas on young women. In this article, we examine interviews with 66 girls, aged 14–22, to understand how they talk about the link between self-esteem and sexual expression in everyday life. We find that girls’ talk about self-esteem uses …
Blinded by Love
While young people today expect gender equity in relationships, inequality persists. In this article, we use interviews with 25 young adults (ages 22 to 32) to investigate the link between gender meanings, age meanings, and continued inequality in relationships. Middle-class young adults tell relationship stories in a gender and age context that both reflect and perpetuate ideas about adult masculinity and femininity. While women often tell stori…
Race, Age, and Identity Transformations in the Transition from High School to College for Black and First-generation White Men
Race and class differences in academic and social integration matter for educational success, social mobility, and personal well-being. In this article, I use interview data with students attending predominantly white four-year research universities to investigate the integration experiences of black and first-generation white men. I examine each group's accounts of both high school and college. Both groups of men reported having positive social …
Monogamy Lite
Studies of collegiate sexuality have not examined infidelity. Using in-depth peer interviews with college students, our article investigates the meanings and practices of 'monogamy' and 'cheating' for college women. College women use ideas about age, class, and gender to construct collegiate sexuality as a kind of 'monogamy lite' exempt from the 'rules' of adult sexuality. Many have cheated themselves. Simultaneously, they define 'real' relations…
Becoming Black Women
In this article, I argue that intimate stories are an important resource for the achievement of intersectional identities. Drawing on in-depth interviews with black college students at two predominantly white universities, I examine the stories black college women tell about interracial relationships between black men and white women. I argue that interracial stories serve an array of social purposes that go well beyond black women’s intimate liv…
Stigma and Status
In this article, I use in-depth interviews with Black college students at two predominantly white universities to investigate the coconstruction of race, gender, and sexuality, and to examine intersectional identities as a dynamic process rather than bounded identity. I focus on Black college men's talk about interracial relationships. Existing research documents Black women's angry reactions to interracial relationships, but for Black men, inter…
Not Out to Start a Revolution
In this article, I use in-depth interviews with black university men to investigate race, gender, and emotions. Participation in dominant institutions requires African American men to exhibit extraordinary emotional restraint. Because anger is culturally associated with men, however, black men's suppression of anger violates masculine expectations. Thus, racial subordination not only creates difficult emotional expectations but may also create em…
Rave Culture
Masculinity Dilemmas
Wannabes, Goths, and Christians
Happier than Non-Christians”
This article uses qualitative data (participant-observation and interviews) to examine happiness talk in a university-based evangelical Christian organization (University Unity). Unity Christians claim that they are happier than non-Christians, but rather than viewing their happiness as a mental health outcome of their participation in a religious organization, I view it as a cultural phenomenon—a way of talking and thinking about their emotions.…
Dude, You're a Fag
So Full of Myself as a Chick
Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and Internet postings, this article analyzes gender in a local Goth scene. These Goths use the confines of the subcultural scene, where they are relatively safe from outsider view, and the scene's celebration of sexuality as resources to resist mainstream notions of passive femininity. This article probes the struggles of women in this Goth scene to examine the broader possibilities and limitations …
Puerto Rican Wannabes
The 'Puerto Rican wannabe' is one contemporary, local expression of contested racial identities-identities that are also inflected with class and gender meanings. This study uses interviews with local youth and young adults to explore their use of the caricature of the wannabe to create and contest race, class, and gender boundaries. The wannabe's challenge to racially designated categories provides a symbol onto which nonwannabe kids project the…
Wife Rape
Not Out to Start a Revolution
In this article, I use in-depth interviews with black university men to investigate race, gender, and emotions. Participation in dominant institutions requires African American men to exhibit extraordinary emotional restraint. Because anger is culturally associated with men, however, black men's suppression of anger violates masculine expectations. Thus, racial subordination not only creates difficult emotional expectations but may also create em…
Happier than Non-Christians”
This article uses qualitative data (participant-observation and interviews) to examine happiness talk in a university-based evangelical Christian organization (University Unity). Unity Christians claim that they are happier than non-Christians, but rather than viewing their happiness as a mental health outcome of their participation in a religious organization, I view it as a cultural phenomenon—a way of talking and thinking about their emotions.…
Becoming Black Women
In this article, I argue that intimate stories are an important resource for the achievement of intersectional identities. Drawing on in-depth interviews with black college students at two predominantly white universities, I examine the stories black college women tell about interracial relationships between black men and white women. I argue that interracial stories serve an array of social purposes that go well beyond black women’s intimate liv…
Masculinity Dilemmas
Stigma and Status
In this article, I use in-depth interviews with Black college students at two predominantly white universities to investigate the coconstruction of race, gender, and sexuality, and to examine intersectional identities as a dynamic process rather than bounded identity. I focus on Black college men's talk about interracial relationships. Existing research documents Black women's angry reactions to interracial relationships, but for Black men, inter…
Puerto Rican Wannabes
The 'Puerto Rican wannabe' is one contemporary, local expression of contested racial identities-identities that are also inflected with class and gender meanings. This study uses interviews with local youth and young adults to explore their use of the caricature of the wannabe to create and contest race, class, and gender boundaries. The wannabe's challenge to racially designated categories provides a symbol onto which nonwannabe kids project the…
Race, Age, and Identity Transformations in the Transition from High School to College for Black and First-generation White Men
Race and class differences in academic and social integration matter for educational success, social mobility, and personal well-being. In this article, I use interview data with students attending predominantly white four-year research universities to investigate the integration experiences of black and first-generation white men. I examine each group's accounts of both high school and college. Both groups of men reported having positive social …
Monogamy Lite
Studies of collegiate sexuality have not examined infidelity. Using in-depth peer interviews with college students, our article investigates the meanings and practices of 'monogamy' and 'cheating' for college women. College women use ideas about age, class, and gender to construct collegiate sexuality as a kind of 'monogamy lite' exempt from the 'rules' of adult sexuality. Many have cheated themselves. Simultaneously, they define 'real' relations…
So Full of Myself as a Chick
Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and Internet postings, this article analyzes gender in a local Goth scene. These Goths use the confines of the subcultural scene, where they are relatively safe from outsider view, and the scene's celebration of sexuality as resources to resist mainstream notions of passive femininity. This article probes the struggles of women in this Goth scene to examine the broader possibilities and limitations …
Blinded by Love
While young people today expect gender equity in relationships, inequality persists. In this article, we use interviews with 25 young adults (ages 22 to 32) to investigate the link between gender meanings, age meanings, and continued inequality in relationships. Middle-class young adults tell relationship stories in a gender and age context that both reflect and perpetuate ideas about adult masculinity and femininity. While women often tell stori…
The Gang's All Queer
Wife Rape
So Full of Myself as a Chick
Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and Internet postings, this article analyzes gender in a local Goth scene. These Goths use the confines of the subcultural scene, where they are relatively safe from outsider view, and the scene's celebration of sexuality as resources to resist mainstream notions of passive femininity. This article probes the struggles of women in this Goth scene to examine the broader possibilities and limitations …
Puerto Rican Wannabes
The 'Puerto Rican wannabe' is one contemporary, local expression of contested racial identities-identities that are also inflected with class and gender meanings. This study uses interviews with local youth and young adults to explore their use of the caricature of the wannabe to create and contest race, class, and gender boundaries. The wannabe's challenge to racially designated categories provides a symbol onto which nonwannabe kids project the…
Wannabes, Goths, and Christians
Happier than Non-Christians”
This article uses qualitative data (participant-observation and interviews) to examine happiness talk in a university-based evangelical Christian organization (University Unity). Unity Christians claim that they are happier than non-Christians, but rather than viewing their happiness as a mental health outcome of their participation in a religious organization, I view it as a cultural phenomenon—a way of talking and thinking about their emotions.…
Dude, You're a Fag
Masculinity Dilemmas
Rave Culture
Becoming Black Women
In this article, I argue that intimate stories are an important resource for the achievement of intersectional identities. Drawing on in-depth interviews with black college students at two predominantly white universities, I examine the stories black college women tell about interracial relationships between black men and white women. I argue that interracial stories serve an array of social purposes that go well beyond black women’s intimate liv…
Stigma and Status
In this article, I use in-depth interviews with Black college students at two predominantly white universities to investigate the coconstruction of race, gender, and sexuality, and to examine intersectional identities as a dynamic process rather than bounded identity. I focus on Black college men's talk about interracial relationships. Existing research documents Black women's angry reactions to interracial relationships, but for Black men, inter…
Not Out to Start a Revolution
In this article, I use in-depth interviews with black university men to investigate race, gender, and emotions. Participation in dominant institutions requires African American men to exhibit extraordinary emotional restraint. Because anger is culturally associated with men, however, black men's suppression of anger violates masculine expectations. Thus, racial subordination not only creates difficult emotional expectations but may also create em…
Monogamy Lite
Studies of collegiate sexuality have not examined infidelity. Using in-depth peer interviews with college students, our article investigates the meanings and practices of 'monogamy' and 'cheating' for college women. College women use ideas about age, class, and gender to construct collegiate sexuality as a kind of 'monogamy lite' exempt from the 'rules' of adult sexuality. Many have cheated themselves. Simultaneously, they define 'real' relations…
Race, Age, and Identity Transformations in the Transition from High School to College for Black and First-generation White Men
Race and class differences in academic and social integration matter for educational success, social mobility, and personal well-being. In this article, I use interview data with students attending predominantly white four-year research universities to investigate the integration experiences of black and first-generation white men. I examine each group's accounts of both high school and college. Both groups of men reported having positive social …
Secure girls
Public discourse is replete with talk about the fragility of young women’s self-esteem, linking poor self-concept to a range of social problems associated with girlhood. We know little about the impact of these ideas on young women. In this article, we examine interviews with 66 girls, aged 14–22, to understand how they talk about the link between self-esteem and sexual expression in everyday life. We find that girls’ talk about self-esteem uses …
Blinded by Love
While young people today expect gender equity in relationships, inequality persists. In this article, we use interviews with 25 young adults (ages 22 to 32) to investigate the link between gender meanings, age meanings, and continued inequality in relationships. Middle-class young adults tell relationship stories in a gender and age context that both reflect and perpetuate ideas about adult masculinity and femininity. While women often tell stori…
The Gang's All Queer
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Human sexuality (8 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Masculinity (4 works)