Kristen Barber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3793838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Barber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Barber |
| SIGNATURE | BARBER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Introduction
Men and Masculinities Scholarship and Interventions in Latin America
Open accessAbstractFirst published online December 15, 2023Men and Masculinities Scholarship and Interventions in Latin America: Symposium IntroductionSebastián Madrid, Teresa Valdés, [...], Roberto Celedón, Tristan Bridges https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2856-1494 [email protected], Kristen Barber, and Joseph D. Nelson+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 26, Issue 5https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X231204037
The extreme gendering of Covid−19
For many years, scholars have directed our attention to the gender gap in domestic labour. Even when women engage in paid employment, they nevertheless perform the majority of the household labour in most wealthy countries. At the same time, disasters and crises both expose and exacerbate existing social inequalities. In this paper, we ask: in what ways has the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the gender gap in household labour, including childca…
Masculinity and Covid-19
The Gender of Multiculturalism
Much research on tokenism has focused on the organizational processes by which white women and racial minorities experience heightened surveillance at work and become occupationally immobile. Little research has considered how tokenism operates for other minority workers, such as immigrants. We theorize cultural tokenism to explain the ways in which foreign-born minorities in the United States are held up against hegemonic ethnic markers besides …
Good-Looking Men Require Hard-Working Women
This chapter considers the cultural and organizational expenditure of women’s labor that masculinizes beauty products, services, spaces, and experiences. Drawing from 9 months of ethnographic observations at two high-service men’s salons—Adonis and The Executive—and fifty interviews with the salons’ employees and clients, the author shows how women bear the burden of making beauty a socially enhancing practice for heterosexual men. Men sitting at…
Mitigating the Harms of Masculinity
Borrowing Privilege
Research shows people confront social marginalization through work, yet this scholarship largely ignores people working in illicit markets. We address this gap by investigating how and to what end men in street prostitution 'borrow' privilege from their more structurally advantaged clients. Drawing from interviews with men of color in street sex work, we show how they 'status maneuver' to offset stigmatized identities tied to prostitution and to …
Children of Katrina
Men at the March
In this article, we examine newspaper coverage of Take Back the Night and SlutWalk sexual assault protests to assess how boundaries around men's participation in feminist events have changed over time, as well as how these changes shape movement messages in the press. Our analysis of Take Back the Night reveals that organizers are more likely to insist on boundaries excluding men's participation, and the coverage often focuses on the public contr…
Men Wanted
This article builds heterosexuality into the concept of aesthetic labor to better understand corporate efforts to construct gendered brands and consumer identities. By theorizing heterosexual aesthetic labor, I show how two men's salons, Adonis and The Executive, hire for, develop, and mobilize the sexual identities and gender habitus of straight and conventionally feminine women to masculinize the hair salon. Drawing from ethnographic observatio…
The experiential gap in disaster research
In this article, we make the case for a situated knowledge of disasters. By applying a feminist standpoint framework, we argue that an ethic of “objectivity” and a privileging of the unattached researcher creates an experiential gap in the disaster literature whereby researchers who themselves experience disaster are undervalued and underrepresented. We analyze reflexive accounts by disaster researchers to show what epi stemological barriers emer…
Ethnographic Research in a Cyber Era
Ethnographers have long been concerned with how individuals and groups live out life in social spaces. As the Internet increasingly frames lived experiences, researchers need to consider how to integrate data from online spaces into "traditional" ethnographic research. Drawing from two ethnographic studies, we explain how online spaces were needed to more fully understand the physical environments and issues we studied. In addition to discussing …
Reconciling Academic Objectivity and Subjective Trauma
This paper utilizes Du Bois' double consciousness, as well as insights from feminist theory and critical pedagogy, to examine the tensions involved in being both a professional sociologist and a New Orleanian affected by Hurricane Katrina. We argue that sociologists from New Orleans face barriers that prevent us from writing and teaching about Katrina 'objectively', as many in our discipline demand, while simultaneously discouraging us from engag…
The Dyadic Imaginary
In this paper, we offer a new theoretical framework for studying love and intimacy in the social sciences. We show that relationships which are not dyadic are often rendered invisible in scholarly accounts of love and intimacy. After reviewing the literature, we apply our new theoretical and methodological framework–the dyadic imaginary–to a case study: same-sex marriage and its relationship to bisexual and queer identities. In this section, we e…
The Well-Coiffed Man
This study explores how men make sense of their participation in the feminized practice of salon hair care. By placing white, middle-class, heterosexual men at the center of analysis, I investigate the meaning of beauty work for a population that has been overlooked in research on gender and the beauty industry. Specifically, I demonstrate that men embed their purchase of salon hair care in the need to appropriate expectations of white profession…
Ethnographic Research in a Cyber Era
Ethnographers have long been concerned with how individuals and groups live out life in social spaces. As the Internet increasingly frames lived experiences, researchers need to consider how to integrate data from online spaces into "traditional" ethnographic research. Drawing from two ethnographic studies, we explain how online spaces were needed to more fully understand the physical environments and issues we studied. In addition to discussing …
The Well-Coiffed Man
This study explores how men make sense of their participation in the feminized practice of salon hair care. By placing white, middle-class, heterosexual men at the center of analysis, I investigate the meaning of beauty work for a population that has been overlooked in research on gender and the beauty industry. Specifically, I demonstrate that men embed their purchase of salon hair care in the need to appropriate expectations of white profession…
Men at the March
In this article, we examine newspaper coverage of Take Back the Night and SlutWalk sexual assault protests to assess how boundaries around men's participation in feminist events have changed over time, as well as how these changes shape movement messages in the press. Our analysis of Take Back the Night reveals that organizers are more likely to insist on boundaries excluding men's participation, and the coverage often focuses on the public contr…
The extreme gendering of Covid−19
For many years, scholars have directed our attention to the gender gap in domestic labour. Even when women engage in paid employment, they nevertheless perform the majority of the household labour in most wealthy countries. At the same time, disasters and crises both expose and exacerbate existing social inequalities. In this paper, we ask: in what ways has the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the gender gap in household labour, including childca…
Borrowing Privilege
Research shows people confront social marginalization through work, yet this scholarship largely ignores people working in illicit markets. We address this gap by investigating how and to what end men in street prostitution 'borrow' privilege from their more structurally advantaged clients. Drawing from interviews with men of color in street sex work, we show how they 'status maneuver' to offset stigmatized identities tied to prostitution and to …
Men Wanted
This article builds heterosexuality into the concept of aesthetic labor to better understand corporate efforts to construct gendered brands and consumer identities. By theorizing heterosexual aesthetic labor, I show how two men's salons, Adonis and The Executive, hire for, develop, and mobilize the sexual identities and gender habitus of straight and conventionally feminine women to masculinize the hair salon. Drawing from ethnographic observatio…
The experiential gap in disaster research
In this article, we make the case for a situated knowledge of disasters. By applying a feminist standpoint framework, we argue that an ethic of “objectivity” and a privileging of the unattached researcher creates an experiential gap in the disaster literature whereby researchers who themselves experience disaster are undervalued and underrepresented. We analyze reflexive accounts by disaster researchers to show what epi stemological barriers emer…
Masculinity and Covid-19
Reconciling Academic Objectivity and Subjective Trauma
This paper utilizes Du Bois' double consciousness, as well as insights from feminist theory and critical pedagogy, to examine the tensions involved in being both a professional sociologist and a New Orleanian affected by Hurricane Katrina. We argue that sociologists from New Orleans face barriers that prevent us from writing and teaching about Katrina 'objectively', as many in our discipline demand, while simultaneously discouraging us from engag…
The Dyadic Imaginary
In this paper, we offer a new theoretical framework for studying love and intimacy in the social sciences. We show that relationships which are not dyadic are often rendered invisible in scholarly accounts of love and intimacy. After reviewing the literature, we apply our new theoretical and methodological framework–the dyadic imaginary–to a case study: same-sex marriage and its relationship to bisexual and queer identities. In this section, we e…
The Gender of Multiculturalism
Much research on tokenism has focused on the organizational processes by which white women and racial minorities experience heightened surveillance at work and become occupationally immobile. Little research has considered how tokenism operates for other minority workers, such as immigrants. We theorize cultural tokenism to explain the ways in which foreign-born minorities in the United States are held up against hegemonic ethnic markers besides …
The Dyadic Imaginary
In this paper, we offer a new theoretical framework for studying love and intimacy in the social sciences. We show that relationships which are not dyadic are often rendered invisible in scholarly accounts of love and intimacy. After reviewing the literature, we apply our new theoretical and methodological framework–the dyadic imaginary–to a case study: same-sex marriage and its relationship to bisexual and queer identities. In this section, we e…
The Well-Coiffed Man
This study explores how men make sense of their participation in the feminized practice of salon hair care. By placing white, middle-class, heterosexual men at the center of analysis, I investigate the meaning of beauty work for a population that has been overlooked in research on gender and the beauty industry. Specifically, I demonstrate that men embed their purchase of salon hair care in the need to appropriate expectations of white profession…
Reconciling Academic Objectivity and Subjective Trauma
This paper utilizes Du Bois' double consciousness, as well as insights from feminist theory and critical pedagogy, to examine the tensions involved in being both a professional sociologist and a New Orleanian affected by Hurricane Katrina. We argue that sociologists from New Orleans face barriers that prevent us from writing and teaching about Katrina 'objectively', as many in our discipline demand, while simultaneously discouraging us from engag…
Ethnographic Research in a Cyber Era
Ethnographers have long been concerned with how individuals and groups live out life in social spaces. As the Internet increasingly frames lived experiences, researchers need to consider how to integrate data from online spaces into "traditional" ethnographic research. Drawing from two ethnographic studies, we explain how online spaces were needed to more fully understand the physical environments and issues we studied. In addition to discussing …
Men at the March
In this article, we examine newspaper coverage of Take Back the Night and SlutWalk sexual assault protests to assess how boundaries around men's participation in feminist events have changed over time, as well as how these changes shape movement messages in the press. Our analysis of Take Back the Night reveals that organizers are more likely to insist on boundaries excluding men's participation, and the coverage often focuses on the public contr…
Men Wanted
This article builds heterosexuality into the concept of aesthetic labor to better understand corporate efforts to construct gendered brands and consumer identities. By theorizing heterosexual aesthetic labor, I show how two men's salons, Adonis and The Executive, hire for, develop, and mobilize the sexual identities and gender habitus of straight and conventionally feminine women to masculinize the hair salon. Drawing from ethnographic observatio…
The experiential gap in disaster research
In this article, we make the case for a situated knowledge of disasters. By applying a feminist standpoint framework, we argue that an ethic of “objectivity” and a privileging of the unattached researcher creates an experiential gap in the disaster literature whereby researchers who themselves experience disaster are undervalued and underrepresented. We analyze reflexive accounts by disaster researchers to show what epi stemological barriers emer…
Children of Katrina
Mitigating the Harms of Masculinity
Borrowing Privilege
Research shows people confront social marginalization through work, yet this scholarship largely ignores people working in illicit markets. We address this gap by investigating how and to what end men in street prostitution 'borrow' privilege from their more structurally advantaged clients. Drawing from interviews with men of color in street sex work, we show how they 'status maneuver' to offset stigmatized identities tied to prostitution and to …
Good-Looking Men Require Hard-Working Women
This chapter considers the cultural and organizational expenditure of women’s labor that masculinizes beauty products, services, spaces, and experiences. Drawing from 9 months of ethnographic observations at two high-service men’s salons—Adonis and The Executive—and fifty interviews with the salons’ employees and clients, the author shows how women bear the burden of making beauty a socially enhancing practice for heterosexual men. Men sitting at…
Masculinity and Covid-19
The Gender of Multiculturalism
Much research on tokenism has focused on the organizational processes by which white women and racial minorities experience heightened surveillance at work and become occupationally immobile. Little research has considered how tokenism operates for other minority workers, such as immigrants. We theorize cultural tokenism to explain the ways in which foreign-born minorities in the United States are held up against hegemonic ethnic markers besides …
The extreme gendering of Covid−19
For many years, scholars have directed our attention to the gender gap in domestic labour. Even when women engage in paid employment, they nevertheless perform the majority of the household labour in most wealthy countries. At the same time, disasters and crises both expose and exacerbate existing social inequalities. In this paper, we ask: in what ways has the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the gender gap in household labour, including childca…
Men and Masculinities Scholarship and Interventions in Latin America
Open accessAbstractFirst published online December 15, 2023Men and Masculinities Scholarship and Interventions in Latin America: Symposium IntroductionSebastián Madrid, Teresa Valdés, [...], Roberto Celedón, Tristan Bridges https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2856-1494 [email protected], Kristen Barber, and Joseph D. Nelson+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 26, Issue 5https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X231204037
Introduction
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (5 works) · Masculinity (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works)