Barbara Risman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Risman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Risman |
| SIGNATURE | RISMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Case of Sticky Gender? Persistence and Change in the Division of Household Labor during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Contemporary research finds that gender continues to provide an organizing framework for couples' allocation of household labor. To explain this outcome, scholars focus on how structural arrangements and cultural beliefs contribute to the persistence of gender inequality in domestic labor. Yet scholarship has yet to fully clarify what combination of cultural and structural factors create persistent gender inequality in household labor. We use the…
Not Just They/Them
Gender-neutral pronouns, such as they/them, have been studied as a site of identity affirmation and, at other times, contestation for non-binary individuals. In this study, we draw from interviews with 123 non-binary individuals to better understand the role of pronouns in these individuals' lives. We find that pronoun practices are ontoformative-they actively (re)construct the meanings attached to gender and gender identities. Yet, not all non-b…
Moving Forward
Attitudes and the Stalled Gender Revolution
Empirical studies show that though there is more room for improvement, much progress has been made toward gender equality since the second wave of feminism. Evidence also suggests that women's advancements have been more dramatic in the public sphere of work and politics than in the private sphere of family life. We argue that this lopsided gender progress may be traced to uneven changes in gender attitudes. Using data from more than 27,000 respo…
Institutional Ethnography
Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and language into everyday experience to examine social relat…
Constructing Global Feminism
The Russian Women's Movement
Seminars for developing women's political activism in Russia provided the basis for field observations and surveys of participants and leaders in the emergent Russian women's movement. The seminars provided an elite sample of activists, including those who were long-term participants in the zhensovety those newly mobilized in Western-influenced, explicitly feminist groups, and the majority, who were engaged in women's NGOs with a variety of speci…
The Russian women's movement
Gender Vertigo
Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition. Barbara Risman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1998. 189 pp. ISBN 0-300-07215-5. $25.00 cloth. This work is a mix of feminist gender arguments, extensive literature reviews, and empirical research directed toward eliminating gender inequality. Readers who hold feminist views will find strong arguments and consistent presentations for most of the book. Readers not sympathetic to the uncritica…
Uncoupling
Male Homosexuality in Four Societies
Attitudes and the Stalled Gender Revolution
Empirical studies show that though there is more room for improvement, much progress has been made toward gender equality since the second wave of feminism. Evidence also suggests that women's advancements have been more dramatic in the public sphere of work and politics than in the private sphere of family life. We argue that this lopsided gender progress may be traced to uneven changes in gender attitudes. Using data from more than 27,000 respo…
A Case of Sticky Gender? Persistence and Change in the Division of Household Labor during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Contemporary research finds that gender continues to provide an organizing framework for couples' allocation of household labor. To explain this outcome, scholars focus on how structural arrangements and cultural beliefs contribute to the persistence of gender inequality in domestic labor. Yet scholarship has yet to fully clarify what combination of cultural and structural factors create persistent gender inequality in household labor. We use the…
Gender Vertigo
Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition. Barbara Risman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1998. 189 pp. ISBN 0-300-07215-5. $25.00 cloth. This work is a mix of feminist gender arguments, extensive literature reviews, and empirical research directed toward eliminating gender inequality. Readers who hold feminist views will find strong arguments and consistent presentations for most of the book. Readers not sympathetic to the uncritica…
Uncoupling
Male Homosexuality in Four Societies
The Russian Women's Movement
Seminars for developing women's political activism in Russia provided the basis for field observations and surveys of participants and leaders in the emergent Russian women's movement. The seminars provided an elite sample of activists, including those who were long-term participants in the zhensovety those newly mobilized in Western-influenced, explicitly feminist groups, and the majority, who were engaged in women's NGOs with a variety of speci…
The Russian women's movement
Gender Vertigo
Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition. Barbara Risman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1998. 189 pp. ISBN 0-300-07215-5. $25.00 cloth. This work is a mix of feminist gender arguments, extensive literature reviews, and empirical research directed toward eliminating gender inequality. Readers who hold feminist views will find strong arguments and consistent presentations for most of the book. Readers not sympathetic to the uncritica…
Constructing Global Feminism
Institutional Ethnography
Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and language into everyday experience to examine social relat…
Attitudes and the Stalled Gender Revolution
Empirical studies show that though there is more room for improvement, much progress has been made toward gender equality since the second wave of feminism. Evidence also suggests that women's advancements have been more dramatic in the public sphere of work and politics than in the private sphere of family life. We argue that this lopsided gender progress may be traced to uneven changes in gender attitudes. Using data from more than 27,000 respo…
Moving Forward
A Case of Sticky Gender? Persistence and Change in the Division of Household Labor during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Contemporary research finds that gender continues to provide an organizing framework for couples' allocation of household labor. To explain this outcome, scholars focus on how structural arrangements and cultural beliefs contribute to the persistence of gender inequality in domestic labor. Yet scholarship has yet to fully clarify what combination of cultural and structural factors create persistent gender inequality in household labor. We use the…
Not Just They/Them
Gender-neutral pronouns, such as they/them, have been studied as a site of identity affirmation and, at other times, contestation for non-binary individuals. In this study, we draw from interviews with 123 non-binary individuals to better understand the role of pronouns in these individuals' lives. We find that pronoun practices are ontoformative-they actively (re)construct the meanings attached to gender and gender identities. Yet, not all non-b…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)