Zein Murib
Biographic Data
| ID | 389177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zein Murib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zein |
| FAMILY NAME | Murib |
| SIGNATURE | MURIB Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2069-8357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Backlash Blues: Assessing How Political Scientists Conceptualize (or Don’t) Reactionary Force
This study references 1,211 articles that mention “backlash” in sixteen political science journals to investigate how the term is understood and used in political science. We find that while backlash is frequently invoked to describe fast and reactionary force, who is impacted by backlash and how is often left unspecified. To address this gap, we suggest a distinction between two major dimensions of backlash. The first is embodied backlash, a tre…
Pseudoscience and attacks on transgender people
Gender Ideology, the Far Right, and LGBTQ Politics
Gender ideology” rhetoric has diffused globally. Mobilized by a coalition of conservative actors, this discursive innovation helps to fuel the election of far-right politicians who scapegoat LGBTQ people, migrants, racial and ethnic minorities, and women as responsible for economic downturns as well as social and political disorder. This essay outlines the history and current landscape of gender ideology for political scientists and situates it i…
The Biggest Decision of Your Life(Time)? Examining the Politics of Married at First Sight
Lifetime’s “Married at First Sight” (MAFS) aired its seventeenth season in 2024, averaging 2.58 million viewers per weekly episode. In this paper, we ask, how does MAFS reflect and intervene in contemporary marriage politics, particularly regarding race, gender, class, and sexuality in the U.S.? To answer this question, we draw on scholarship about marriage as a political institution, and on reality TV as a window into contemporary socio-economic…
Anti-Trans Attacks: Interrogating “Gender” in Politics and Gender Scholarship
This essay considers the rapid uptick in anti-trans legislation that targets transgender girls and women as an occasion to critically interrogate the ways that gender is conceptualized and operationalized in political science (Murib 2022). I argue that the disciplinary tendency to view gender as a single-axis facet of identity that is static and rooted in biology needs to be reconsidered in light of two problems. First, collapsing biological sex …
Backlash, Intersectionality, and Trumpism
Many feminists theorize backlash as reactionary opposition to progressive gains by those seeking to reestablish the status quo. This essay extends this theorization by raising and answering two related questions: where does backlash come from, and what does backlash do? I argue that backlash emerges from the resurgence of questions regarding who belongs in the polity and that these questions about proper membership are reflected in contemporary c…
Administering Biology: How “Bathroom Bills” Criminalize and Stigmatize Trans and Gender Nonconforming People in Public Space
Public administration scholarship pertaining to transgender individuals focuses on the implementation of nondiscrimination policies, particularly with respect to employment (Colvin 2007 Colvin, R. A. (2007). The rise of transgender-inclusive laws: How well are municipalities implementing supportive nondiscrimination public employment policies? Review of Public Personnel Administration, 27(4), 336–360.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2008 Colvin, R.…
Conclusion - Feminism in Coalition: Rethinking Strategies for Progressive Politics Across Difference
Conclusion to Feminism in Coalition: Rethinking Strategies for Progressive Politics Across Difference." New Political Science, 40(1), pp. 184–185
The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights: How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Scholars, activists, and political actors generally agree that focusing on rights claims is one of the key ways that marginalized groups can articulate political grievances, mobilize movements, and, ultimately, achieve successful outcomes in American politics. The near-axiomatic power of rights in both social science scholarship and political practice stems from the perceived successes of the black civil rights movement, which demonstrated that c…
Trumpism, Citizenship, and the Future of the LGBTQ Movement
Scholarship on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) politics argues that political claims, such as access to the military and marriage, are most effective when representatives from the group articulate that the desire for inclusion and participation in those institutions is similar to the desires held by their straight and nontransgender counterparts. This strategy of assimilation has yielded many positive legal changes. And yet…
Feminism in Coalition: Rethinking Strategies for Progressive Politics Across Difference
In addition to offering an overview of the articles in this symposium, this short introduction provides a conceptual framing for this collective conversation. Proceeding from the conviction that in contemporary feminist theory, and particularly within women of color feminism, one finds a vital resource for theorizing social justice coalition politics across difference, we situate the symposium in relation to the variety of ways in which the sympo…
Unsettling the GLBT and Queer Coalitions in US Politics Through the Lens of Queer Indigenous Critique
This article draws on critiques put forth by Queer Indigenous activists and scholars to question the tendency to include ever more “diverse” groups in the GLBT and Queer coalitions. I begin by introducing three main critiques of non-Native social movement coalitions put forth by Queer Indigenous scholars and then provide examples of Native organizing that shows how coalitions can bring members together across difference. To illustrate how this mo…
Gay” or “Homosexual”? The Implications of Social Category Labels for the Structure of Mass Attitudes
Multiple identity and identification terms are used in social science research on sexuality, including clinical terms such as “homosexual” and “heterosexual” and more colloquial terms such as “gay” and “straight.” In this article, we show that far from being synonyms, these terms have consequences for attitudes about gay and lesbian rights. We begin by providing a historical overview of the terms “homosexual” and “gay and lesbian,” showing the di…
Transgender: Examining an emerging political identity using three political processes
This study examines the construction of a new political identity category in the USA during the 1990s, transgender, focusing on three political processes: (1) conflict over meanings associated with the identity category; (2) backlash in the form of stigmatization from other groups that prompted frame transformation; and (3) representation, particularly across political venues where information about the new identity category is disseminated. Usin…
Intersectionality as an Assembly of Analytic Practices: Subjects, Relations, and Situated Comparisons
Ange-Marie Hancock’s new book, Intersectionality: An Intellectual History, is a timely and important intervention in the study of power and politics.1 Hancock proves to be a skillful guide, continu
Lgbt
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Administering Biology: How “Bathroom Bills” Criminalize and Stigmatize Trans and Gender Nonconforming People in Public Space
Public administration scholarship pertaining to transgender individuals focuses on the implementation of nondiscrimination policies, particularly with respect to employment (Colvin 2007 Colvin, R. A. (2007). The rise of transgender-inclusive laws: How well are municipalities implementing supportive nondiscrimination public employment policies? Review of Public Personnel Administration, 27(4), 336–360.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2008 Colvin, R.…
Transgender: Examining an emerging political identity using three political processes
This study examines the construction of a new political identity category in the USA during the 1990s, transgender, focusing on three political processes: (1) conflict over meanings associated with the identity category; (2) backlash in the form of stigmatization from other groups that prompted frame transformation; and (3) representation, particularly across political venues where information about the new identity category is disseminated. Usin…
Trumpism, Citizenship, and the Future of the LGBTQ Movement
Scholarship on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) politics argues that political claims, such as access to the military and marriage, are most effective when representatives from the group articulate that the desire for inclusion and participation in those institutions is similar to the desires held by their straight and nontransgender counterparts. This strategy of assimilation has yielded many positive legal changes. And yet…
Unsettling the GLBT and Queer Coalitions in US Politics Through the Lens of Queer Indigenous Critique
This article draws on critiques put forth by Queer Indigenous activists and scholars to question the tendency to include ever more “diverse” groups in the GLBT and Queer coalitions. I begin by introducing three main critiques of non-Native social movement coalitions put forth by Queer Indigenous scholars and then provide examples of Native organizing that shows how coalitions can bring members together across difference. To illustrate how this mo…
Gay” or “Homosexual”? The Implications of Social Category Labels for the Structure of Mass Attitudes
Multiple identity and identification terms are used in social science research on sexuality, including clinical terms such as “homosexual” and “heterosexual” and more colloquial terms such as “gay” and “straight.” In this article, we show that far from being synonyms, these terms have consequences for attitudes about gay and lesbian rights. We begin by providing a historical overview of the terms “homosexual” and “gay and lesbian,” showing the di…
Backlash, Intersectionality, and Trumpism
Many feminists theorize backlash as reactionary opposition to progressive gains by those seeking to reestablish the status quo. This essay extends this theorization by raising and answering two related questions: where does backlash come from, and what does backlash do? I argue that backlash emerges from the resurgence of questions regarding who belongs in the polity and that these questions about proper membership are reflected in contemporary c…
Anti-Trans Attacks: Interrogating “Gender” in Politics and Gender Scholarship
This essay considers the rapid uptick in anti-trans legislation that targets transgender girls and women as an occasion to critically interrogate the ways that gender is conceptualized and operationalized in political science (Murib 2022). I argue that the disciplinary tendency to view gender as a single-axis facet of identity that is static and rooted in biology needs to be reconsidered in light of two problems. First, collapsing biological sex …
Lgbt
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Gender Ideology, the Far Right, and LGBTQ Politics
Gender ideology” rhetoric has diffused globally. Mobilized by a coalition of conservative actors, this discursive innovation helps to fuel the election of far-right politicians who scapegoat LGBTQ people, migrants, racial and ethnic minorities, and women as responsible for economic downturns as well as social and political disorder. This essay outlines the history and current landscape of gender ideology for political scientists and situates it i…
Intersectionality as an Assembly of Analytic Practices: Subjects, Relations, and Situated Comparisons
Ange-Marie Hancock’s new book, Intersectionality: An Intellectual History, is a timely and important intervention in the study of power and politics.1 Hancock proves to be a skillful guide, continu
Pseudoscience and attacks on transgender people
Feminism in Coalition: Rethinking Strategies for Progressive Politics Across Difference
In addition to offering an overview of the articles in this symposium, this short introduction provides a conceptual framing for this collective conversation. Proceeding from the conviction that in contemporary feminist theory, and particularly within women of color feminism, one finds a vital resource for theorizing social justice coalition politics across difference, we situate the symposium in relation to the variety of ways in which the sympo…
Lgbt
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Transgender: Examining an emerging political identity using three political processes
This study examines the construction of a new political identity category in the USA during the 1990s, transgender, focusing on three political processes: (1) conflict over meanings associated with the identity category; (2) backlash in the form of stigmatization from other groups that prompted frame transformation; and (3) representation, particularly across political venues where information about the new identity category is disseminated. Usin…
Intersectionality as an Assembly of Analytic Practices: Subjects, Relations, and Situated Comparisons
Ange-Marie Hancock’s new book, Intersectionality: An Intellectual History, is a timely and important intervention in the study of power and politics.1 Hancock proves to be a skillful guide, continu
Conclusion - Feminism in Coalition: Rethinking Strategies for Progressive Politics Across Difference
Conclusion to Feminism in Coalition: Rethinking Strategies for Progressive Politics Across Difference." New Political Science, 40(1), pp. 184–185
The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights: How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Scholars, activists, and political actors generally agree that focusing on rights claims is one of the key ways that marginalized groups can articulate political grievances, mobilize movements, and, ultimately, achieve successful outcomes in American politics. The near-axiomatic power of rights in both social science scholarship and political practice stems from the perceived successes of the black civil rights movement, which demonstrated that c…
Trumpism, Citizenship, and the Future of the LGBTQ Movement
Scholarship on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) politics argues that political claims, such as access to the military and marriage, are most effective when representatives from the group articulate that the desire for inclusion and participation in those institutions is similar to the desires held by their straight and nontransgender counterparts. This strategy of assimilation has yielded many positive legal changes. And yet…
Feminism in Coalition: Rethinking Strategies for Progressive Politics Across Difference
In addition to offering an overview of the articles in this symposium, this short introduction provides a conceptual framing for this collective conversation. Proceeding from the conviction that in contemporary feminist theory, and particularly within women of color feminism, one finds a vital resource for theorizing social justice coalition politics across difference, we situate the symposium in relation to the variety of ways in which the sympo…
Unsettling the GLBT and Queer Coalitions in US Politics Through the Lens of Queer Indigenous Critique
This article draws on critiques put forth by Queer Indigenous activists and scholars to question the tendency to include ever more “diverse” groups in the GLBT and Queer coalitions. I begin by introducing three main critiques of non-Native social movement coalitions put forth by Queer Indigenous scholars and then provide examples of Native organizing that shows how coalitions can bring members together across difference. To illustrate how this mo…
Gay” or “Homosexual”? The Implications of Social Category Labels for the Structure of Mass Attitudes
Multiple identity and identification terms are used in social science research on sexuality, including clinical terms such as “homosexual” and “heterosexual” and more colloquial terms such as “gay” and “straight.” In this article, we show that far from being synonyms, these terms have consequences for attitudes about gay and lesbian rights. We begin by providing a historical overview of the terms “homosexual” and “gay and lesbian,” showing the di…
Administering Biology: How “Bathroom Bills” Criminalize and Stigmatize Trans and Gender Nonconforming People in Public Space
Public administration scholarship pertaining to transgender individuals focuses on the implementation of nondiscrimination policies, particularly with respect to employment (Colvin 2007 Colvin, R. A. (2007). The rise of transgender-inclusive laws: How well are municipalities implementing supportive nondiscrimination public employment policies? Review of Public Personnel Administration, 27(4), 336–360.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2008 Colvin, R.…
Backlash, Intersectionality, and Trumpism
Many feminists theorize backlash as reactionary opposition to progressive gains by those seeking to reestablish the status quo. This essay extends this theorization by raising and answering two related questions: where does backlash come from, and what does backlash do? I argue that backlash emerges from the resurgence of questions regarding who belongs in the polity and that these questions about proper membership are reflected in contemporary c…
The Biggest Decision of Your Life(Time)? Examining the Politics of Married at First Sight
Lifetime’s “Married at First Sight” (MAFS) aired its seventeenth season in 2024, averaging 2.58 million viewers per weekly episode. In this paper, we ask, how does MAFS reflect and intervene in contemporary marriage politics, particularly regarding race, gender, class, and sexuality in the U.S.? To answer this question, we draw on scholarship about marriage as a political institution, and on reality TV as a window into contemporary socio-economic…
Anti-Trans Attacks: Interrogating “Gender” in Politics and Gender Scholarship
This essay considers the rapid uptick in anti-trans legislation that targets transgender girls and women as an occasion to critically interrogate the ways that gender is conceptualized and operationalized in political science (Murib 2022). I argue that the disciplinary tendency to view gender as a single-axis facet of identity that is static and rooted in biology needs to be reconsidered in light of two problems. First, collapsing biological sex …
Pseudoscience and attacks on transgender people
Gender Ideology, the Far Right, and LGBTQ Politics
Gender ideology” rhetoric has diffused globally. Mobilized by a coalition of conservative actors, this discursive innovation helps to fuel the election of far-right politicians who scapegoat LGBTQ people, migrants, racial and ethnic minorities, and women as responsible for economic downturns as well as social and political disorder. This essay outlines the history and current landscape of gender ideology for political scientists and situates it i…
Backlash Blues: Assessing How Political Scientists Conceptualize (or Don’t) Reactionary Force
This study references 1,211 articles that mention “backlash” in sixteen political science journals to investigate how the term is understood and used in political science. We find that while backlash is frequently invoked to describe fast and reactionary force, who is impacted by backlash and how is often left unspecified. To address this gap, we suggest a distinction between two major dimensions of backlash. The first is embodied backlash, a tre…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (9 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works) · Transgender (5 works)