Tina Fetner
Biographic Data
| ID | 249556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Fetner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Fetner |
| SIGNATURE | FETNER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4073-073X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 513 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Practice What You Preach: Complicating the Relationship among Christian Religious Identity, Abortion Attitudes, and Reported Abortion Experiences among Canadians
Abortion providers often report having patients who describe abortion as immoral, even while accessing abortion care. According to these anecdotes, antiabortion identities, frequently depicted as tied to religious identities, are not necessarily reflected in individuals’ lived experiences. Yet social science research and political rhetoric tend to suggest a straightforward connection between religion and antiabortion beliefs and practices. The au…
Sexual Identity‐Behavior Discordance in Canada
This paper uses two surveys to examine sexual identity-behavior discordance in Canada. The first is the Sex in Canada survey (SCS), which is a private survey of 2,303 Canadians. The second is the 2015-2016 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), which is a large nationally representative government-administered survey with 109,659 respondents. Results from the CCHS show that identity-behavior discordance and overall rates of same-sex contact are…
Men’s Feminist Identification and Reported Use of Prescription Erectile Dysfunction Medication
We analyzed data from the 2018 Sex in Canada survey ( n = 1,015 cisgender men) to examine the association between feminist identification and reported use of prescription ED medication (EDM) during men's last sexual encounter. Feminist-identified men were substantially more likely to report EDM use than non-feminist men, even after controlling for alcohol use before sex, erection difficulties, sexual arousal, sexual health, mental health, and phy…
Feminist Identity and Sexual Behavior: The Intimate Is Political
Climax as Work: Heteronormativity, Gender Labor, and the Gender Gap in Orgasms
Gender scholars have addressed a variety of gender gaps between men and women, including a gender gap in orgasms. In this mixed-methods study of heterosexual Canadians, we examine how men and women engage in gender labor that limits women's orgasms relative to men. With representative survey data, we test existing hypotheses that sexual behaviors and relationship contexts contribute to the gender gap in orgasms. We confirm previous research that …
Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men's Sex with Women
Men's identification with and support for feminism has attracted the interest of masculinity scholars. This study explores an under-researched dimension of this phenomenon, investigating the relationship between feminist identification and sexual behavior. In heterosexual encounters, do feminist men report having sex more recently than those who do not call themselves feminists? During sexual encounters, do feminist men behave differently than no…
The Gender Gap in Orgasms: Survey Data from a Mid-Sized Canadian City
Objective: Previous research has established a gap in orgasm frequency between men and women. This study investigates explanations for the gender gap in orgasm. Methods: Crosstab analysis and logistic regression are used to examine the gender gap in orgasms from one Canadian city: Hamilton, Ontario (N = 194). Results: We find a strong association between women’s orgasms and the type of sexual behavior in which partners engage. Women who receive o…
The Religious Right in the United States and Canada: Evangelical Communities, Critical Junctures, and Institutional Infrastructures
Why has the religious right been more influential in the United States than in Canada? Traditional approaches to the study of social movements focus only on the life of the movement, from emergence to decline. Instead, I conduct a historical, comparative analysis on the premovement activities of evangelical Christian communities in these two countries from 1925–1975. Employing insights from historical institutionalism, I identify two critical jun…
Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe
Solidarity or Schism: Ideological Congruence and the Twitter Networks of Egyptian Activists
Social movement scholarship on the role of coalitions in advancing social change claims that communication across ideological boundaries can foster a collective identity among diverse groups of activists. New communications technology, especially activists' widespread adoption of social media, calls into question whether these claims apply equally to online social media-based coalitions. Using the case of the Egyptian revolution in the Arab Sprin…
The GSA Difference: LGBTQ and Ally Experiences in High Schools with and without Gay-Straight Alliances
We examine the lived experiences of high-school students who participated in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-centered activism of some kind, highlighting the promise of gay-straight alliance groups by comparing the experiences of students at schools with gay-straight alliances (GSA schools) with the experiences of students at schools that did not have an LGBTQ-specific group (no-GSA schools). We compare students at GSA and …
Safe Spaces: Gay‐Straight Alliances in High Schools
In activists' circles as in sociology, the concept "safe space" has been applied to all sorts of programs, organizations, and practices. Few studies have specified clearly what safe spaces are and how they support the people who occupy them. We examine one social location typically understood to be a safe space: gay-straight alliance groups in high schools. Using qualitative interviews with young adults in the United States and Canada who have pa…
The Tea Party: Manufactured Dissent or Complex Social Movement
The Tea Party emerged as a conservative, anti-government spending, anti-health care reform, anti-Obama force on the extreme right side of the American political spectrum in February of 2009. CNBC reporter Rick Santelli's on-air rant against the Obama administration's proposed response to the foreclosure crisis provided the spark that started this right-wing phenomenon. Local Tea Party groups sprouted up across the nation, with the support of righ…
Amin Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
Cohort Differences in Tolerance of Homosexuality: Attitudinal Change in Canada and the United States, 1981-2000
Using data from the World Values Surveys, we explore trends in tolerance of homosexuality in Canada and the United States from 1981 to 2000. Particular attention is given to the effects of birth cohort. Consistent with previous research, we find that younger cohorts are typically the most tolerant of homosexuality. We also find that Canadians are more liberal than Americans. Most interesting, however, is the remarkable degree of change over time …
Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies
Using hierarchical linear models fitted to data from the World Values Survey and national statistics for 35 countries, this article builds on the postmaterialist thesis by assessing the impact of economic inequality across and within nations on attitudes toward homosexuality. It provides evidence that tolerance tends to decline as national income inequality rises. For professionals and managers, the results also support the postmaterialist argume…
Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: Social Predictors of Early Adoption
This article examines the patterns of emergence of gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in public high schools in the United States. These extracurricular student groups offer safe spaces, social support, and opportunities for activism to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and straight students. Combining data on various characteristics of public schools and state anti-discrimination laws with organizational records on the formation of GSA grou…
Maureen Sullivan, The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, their Children, and the Undoing of Gender
Ex-Gay Rhetoric and the Politics of Sexuality: The Christian Antigay/Pro-Family Movement's “Truth in Love” Ad Campaign
In 1998, a coalition of antigay, pro-family activist organizations published a set of full-page print advertisements in several nationally recognized newspapers. These ads promoted sexual (ex-gay) conversion therapy for homosexuals. I examine these advertisements as a contest over cultural symbols and values, and over the very definition of lesbian and gay identity. This discursive contest had the potential to impact activist politics greatly, bu…
Challengers and states: Toward a political sociology of social movements
Sharing Secrets Slowly: Issues of Classroom Self-Disclosure Raised by Student Sex Workers
Many teachers find experiential teaching methods useful for discussing emotional and controversial topics such as sexual identity or family violence. These methods, many of which include self-disclosure in the classroom, can break down the barriers between students and the social world. We explore the classroom management of student self-disclosure of sensitive topics drawing on our experiences teaching sociology at a large, urban university in w…
Working Anita Bryant: The Impact of Christian Anti-Gay Activism on Lesbian and Gay Movement Claims
Social movement scholarship claims that opposing movements can create opportunities and generate mobilization for the other side. However, there are still open questions as to how this influence between opposing movements operates on an organizational level. This paper looks closely at one aspect of the impact of opposing movements: rhetorical strategies. I examine historical documents produced by social movement organizations to determine the pr…
Cohort Differences in Tolerance of Homosexuality: Attitudinal Change in Canada and the United States, 1981-2000
Using data from the World Values Surveys, we explore trends in tolerance of homosexuality in Canada and the United States from 1981 to 2000. Particular attention is given to the effects of birth cohort. Consistent with previous research, we find that younger cohorts are typically the most tolerant of homosexuality. We also find that Canadians are more liberal than Americans. Most interesting, however, is the remarkable degree of change over time …
Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies
Using hierarchical linear models fitted to data from the World Values Survey and national statistics for 35 countries, this article builds on the postmaterialist thesis by assessing the impact of economic inequality across and within nations on attitudes toward homosexuality. It provides evidence that tolerance tends to decline as national income inequality rises. For professionals and managers, the results also support the postmaterialist argume…
Working Anita Bryant: The Impact of Christian Anti-Gay Activism on Lesbian and Gay Movement Claims
Social movement scholarship claims that opposing movements can create opportunities and generate mobilization for the other side. However, there are still open questions as to how this influence between opposing movements operates on an organizational level. This paper looks closely at one aspect of the impact of opposing movements: rhetorical strategies. I examine historical documents produced by social movement organizations to determine the pr…
The GSA Difference: LGBTQ and Ally Experiences in High Schools with and without Gay-Straight Alliances
We examine the lived experiences of high-school students who participated in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-centered activism of some kind, highlighting the promise of gay-straight alliance groups by comparing the experiences of students at schools with gay-straight alliances (GSA schools) with the experiences of students at schools that did not have an LGBTQ-specific group (no-GSA schools). We compare students at GSA and …
Ex-Gay Rhetoric and the Politics of Sexuality: The Christian Antigay/Pro-Family Movement's “Truth in Love” Ad Campaign
In 1998, a coalition of antigay, pro-family activist organizations published a set of full-page print advertisements in several nationally recognized newspapers. These ads promoted sexual (ex-gay) conversion therapy for homosexuals. I examine these advertisements as a contest over cultural symbols and values, and over the very definition of lesbian and gay identity. This discursive contest had the potential to impact activist politics greatly, bu…
Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: Social Predictors of Early Adoption
This article examines the patterns of emergence of gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in public high schools in the United States. These extracurricular student groups offer safe spaces, social support, and opportunities for activism to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and straight students. Combining data on various characteristics of public schools and state anti-discrimination laws with organizational records on the formation of GSA grou…
Safe Spaces: Gay‐Straight Alliances in High Schools
In activists' circles as in sociology, the concept "safe space" has been applied to all sorts of programs, organizations, and practices. Few studies have specified clearly what safe spaces are and how they support the people who occupy them. We examine one social location typically understood to be a safe space: gay-straight alliance groups in high schools. Using qualitative interviews with young adults in the United States and Canada who have pa…
Solidarity or Schism: Ideological Congruence and the Twitter Networks of Egyptian Activists
Social movement scholarship on the role of coalitions in advancing social change claims that communication across ideological boundaries can foster a collective identity among diverse groups of activists. New communications technology, especially activists' widespread adoption of social media, calls into question whether these claims apply equally to online social media-based coalitions. Using the case of the Egyptian revolution in the Arab Sprin…
Climax as Work: Heteronormativity, Gender Labor, and the Gender Gap in Orgasms
Gender scholars have addressed a variety of gender gaps between men and women, including a gender gap in orgasms. In this mixed-methods study of heterosexual Canadians, we examine how men and women engage in gender labor that limits women's orgasms relative to men. With representative survey data, we test existing hypotheses that sexual behaviors and relationship contexts contribute to the gender gap in orgasms. We confirm previous research that …
Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men's Sex with Women
Men's identification with and support for feminism has attracted the interest of masculinity scholars. This study explores an under-researched dimension of this phenomenon, investigating the relationship between feminist identification and sexual behavior. In heterosexual encounters, do feminist men report having sex more recently than those who do not call themselves feminists? During sexual encounters, do feminist men behave differently than no…
Sharing Secrets Slowly: Issues of Classroom Self-Disclosure Raised by Student Sex Workers
Many teachers find experiential teaching methods useful for discussing emotional and controversial topics such as sexual identity or family violence. These methods, many of which include self-disclosure in the classroom, can break down the barriers between students and the social world. We explore the classroom management of student self-disclosure of sensitive topics drawing on our experiences teaching sociology at a large, urban university in w…
Men’s Feminist Identification and Reported Use of Prescription Erectile Dysfunction Medication
We analyzed data from the 2018 Sex in Canada survey ( n = 1,015 cisgender men) to examine the association between feminist identification and reported use of prescription ED medication (EDM) during men's last sexual encounter. Feminist-identified men were substantially more likely to report EDM use than non-feminist men, even after controlling for alcohol use before sex, erection difficulties, sexual arousal, sexual health, mental health, and phy…
Sexual Identity‐Behavior Discordance in Canada
This paper uses two surveys to examine sexual identity-behavior discordance in Canada. The first is the Sex in Canada survey (SCS), which is a private survey of 2,303 Canadians. The second is the 2015-2016 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), which is a large nationally representative government-administered survey with 109,659 respondents. Results from the CCHS show that identity-behavior discordance and overall rates of same-sex contact are…
Feminist Identity and Sexual Behavior: The Intimate Is Political
The Religious Right in the United States and Canada: Evangelical Communities, Critical Junctures, and Institutional Infrastructures
Why has the religious right been more influential in the United States than in Canada? Traditional approaches to the study of social movements focus only on the life of the movement, from emergence to decline. Instead, I conduct a historical, comparative analysis on the premovement activities of evangelical Christian communities in these two countries from 1925–1975. Employing insights from historical institutionalism, I identify two critical jun…
Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe
Sharing Secrets Slowly: Issues of Classroom Self-Disclosure Raised by Student Sex Workers
Many teachers find experiential teaching methods useful for discussing emotional and controversial topics such as sexual identity or family violence. These methods, many of which include self-disclosure in the classroom, can break down the barriers between students and the social world. We explore the classroom management of student self-disclosure of sensitive topics drawing on our experiences teaching sociology at a large, urban university in w…
Working Anita Bryant: The Impact of Christian Anti-Gay Activism on Lesbian and Gay Movement Claims
Social movement scholarship claims that opposing movements can create opportunities and generate mobilization for the other side. However, there are still open questions as to how this influence between opposing movements operates on an organizational level. This paper looks closely at one aspect of the impact of opposing movements: rhetorical strategies. I examine historical documents produced by social movement organizations to determine the pr…
Challengers and states: Toward a political sociology of social movements
Ex-Gay Rhetoric and the Politics of Sexuality: The Christian Antigay/Pro-Family Movement's “Truth in Love” Ad Campaign
In 1998, a coalition of antigay, pro-family activist organizations published a set of full-page print advertisements in several nationally recognized newspapers. These ads promoted sexual (ex-gay) conversion therapy for homosexuals. I examine these advertisements as a contest over cultural symbols and values, and over the very definition of lesbian and gay identity. This discursive contest had the potential to impact activist politics greatly, bu…
Maureen Sullivan, The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, their Children, and the Undoing of Gender
Cohort Differences in Tolerance of Homosexuality: Attitudinal Change in Canada and the United States, 1981-2000
Using data from the World Values Surveys, we explore trends in tolerance of homosexuality in Canada and the United States from 1981 to 2000. Particular attention is given to the effects of birth cohort. Consistent with previous research, we find that younger cohorts are typically the most tolerant of homosexuality. We also find that Canadians are more liberal than Americans. Most interesting, however, is the remarkable degree of change over time …
Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies
Using hierarchical linear models fitted to data from the World Values Survey and national statistics for 35 countries, this article builds on the postmaterialist thesis by assessing the impact of economic inequality across and within nations on attitudes toward homosexuality. It provides evidence that tolerance tends to decline as national income inequality rises. For professionals and managers, the results also support the postmaterialist argume…
Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: Social Predictors of Early Adoption
This article examines the patterns of emergence of gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in public high schools in the United States. These extracurricular student groups offer safe spaces, social support, and opportunities for activism to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and straight students. Combining data on various characteristics of public schools and state anti-discrimination laws with organizational records on the formation of GSA grou…
Amin Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington
Safe Spaces: Gay‐Straight Alliances in High Schools
In activists' circles as in sociology, the concept "safe space" has been applied to all sorts of programs, organizations, and practices. Few studies have specified clearly what safe spaces are and how they support the people who occupy them. We examine one social location typically understood to be a safe space: gay-straight alliance groups in high schools. Using qualitative interviews with young adults in the United States and Canada who have pa…
The Tea Party: Manufactured Dissent or Complex Social Movement
The Tea Party emerged as a conservative, anti-government spending, anti-health care reform, anti-Obama force on the extreme right side of the American political spectrum in February of 2009. CNBC reporter Rick Santelli's on-air rant against the Obama administration's proposed response to the foreclosure crisis provided the spark that started this right-wing phenomenon. Local Tea Party groups sprouted up across the nation, with the support of righ…
The GSA Difference: LGBTQ and Ally Experiences in High Schools with and without Gay-Straight Alliances
We examine the lived experiences of high-school students who participated in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-centered activism of some kind, highlighting the promise of gay-straight alliance groups by comparing the experiences of students at schools with gay-straight alliances (GSA schools) with the experiences of students at schools that did not have an LGBTQ-specific group (no-GSA schools). We compare students at GSA and …
Solidarity or Schism: Ideological Congruence and the Twitter Networks of Egyptian Activists
Social movement scholarship on the role of coalitions in advancing social change claims that communication across ideological boundaries can foster a collective identity among diverse groups of activists. New communications technology, especially activists' widespread adoption of social media, calls into question whether these claims apply equally to online social media-based coalitions. Using the case of the Egyptian revolution in the Arab Sprin…
The Gender Gap in Orgasms: Survey Data from a Mid-Sized Canadian City
Objective: Previous research has established a gap in orgasm frequency between men and women. This study investigates explanations for the gender gap in orgasm. Methods: Crosstab analysis and logistic regression are used to examine the gender gap in orgasms from one Canadian city: Hamilton, Ontario (N = 194). Results: We find a strong association between women’s orgasms and the type of sexual behavior in which partners engage. Women who receive o…
The Religious Right in the United States and Canada: Evangelical Communities, Critical Junctures, and Institutional Infrastructures
Why has the religious right been more influential in the United States than in Canada? Traditional approaches to the study of social movements focus only on the life of the movement, from emergence to decline. Instead, I conduct a historical, comparative analysis on the premovement activities of evangelical Christian communities in these two countries from 1925–1975. Employing insights from historical institutionalism, I identify two critical jun…
Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe
Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men's Sex with Women
Men's identification with and support for feminism has attracted the interest of masculinity scholars. This study explores an under-researched dimension of this phenomenon, investigating the relationship between feminist identification and sexual behavior. In heterosexual encounters, do feminist men report having sex more recently than those who do not call themselves feminists? During sexual encounters, do feminist men behave differently than no…
Sexual Identity‐Behavior Discordance in Canada
This paper uses two surveys to examine sexual identity-behavior discordance in Canada. The first is the Sex in Canada survey (SCS), which is a private survey of 2,303 Canadians. The second is the 2015-2016 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), which is a large nationally representative government-administered survey with 109,659 respondents. Results from the CCHS show that identity-behavior discordance and overall rates of same-sex contact are…
Men’s Feminist Identification and Reported Use of Prescription Erectile Dysfunction Medication
We analyzed data from the 2018 Sex in Canada survey ( n = 1,015 cisgender men) to examine the association between feminist identification and reported use of prescription ED medication (EDM) during men's last sexual encounter. Feminist-identified men were substantially more likely to report EDM use than non-feminist men, even after controlling for alcohol use before sex, erection difficulties, sexual arousal, sexual health, mental health, and phy…
Feminist Identity and Sexual Behavior: The Intimate Is Political
Climax as Work: Heteronormativity, Gender Labor, and the Gender Gap in Orgasms
Gender scholars have addressed a variety of gender gaps between men and women, including a gender gap in orgasms. In this mixed-methods study of heterosexual Canadians, we examine how men and women engage in gender labor that limits women's orgasms relative to men. With representative survey data, we test existing hypotheses that sexual behaviors and relationship contexts contribute to the gender gap in orgasms. We confirm previous research that …
Practice What You Preach: Complicating the Relationship among Christian Religious Identity, Abortion Attitudes, and Reported Abortion Experiences among Canadians
Abortion providers often report having patients who describe abortion as immoral, even while accessing abortion care. According to these anecdotes, antiabortion identities, frequently depicted as tied to religious identities, are not necessarily reflected in individuals’ lived experiences. Yet social science research and political rhetoric tend to suggest a straightforward connection between religion and antiabortion beliefs and practices. The au…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Homosexuality (7 works)