Sepideh Borzoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4461256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sepideh Borzoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sepideh |
| FAMILY NAME | Borzoo |
| SIGNATURE | BORZOO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7983-0418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Strategic (De)racing
This paper investigates how middle‐class women beauty entrepreneurs negotiate belonging at the intersection of gender, race, and class. Building on in‐depth qualitative interviews with women owners of Canadian beauty brands as well as analysis of social media content created by these local stores, I highlight racial and political structures that shape the ways entrepreneurs negotiate belonging in a white‐dominant high‐end sector of the beauty mar…
“We Take the Whip and Work”
Bringing the theories of gendered and racialized organizations into conversation with research on immigration and racialization, this paper offers an intersectional understanding of the experiences of immigrant workers of color in cybersecurity. Building on interviews with 50 foreign‐born workers of color in Canada, we examine how workers perceive themselves as ideal workers to shed light on race, nationality, and gender as mechanisms that sustai…
Intersecting Gender, Race, and Class in the Labor of Beauty
Beauty Labor, as a traditionally gendered low‐wage work, offers an important site to examine exploitation and, simultaneously, resistance to systems of racialized, gendered, and class‐based inequality in the labor market. Existing literature on beauty labor falls into one of two approaches: (1) oppressive systems shaping and structuring the labor performed by immigrant women of color; (2) Beauty labor as an incubator for cultural exchange and emo…
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Intersecting Gender, Race, and Class in the Labor of Beauty
Beauty Labor, as a traditionally gendered low‐wage work, offers an important site to examine exploitation and, simultaneously, resistance to systems of racialized, gendered, and class‐based inequality in the labor market. Existing literature on beauty labor falls into one of two approaches: (1) oppressive systems shaping and structuring the labor performed by immigrant women of color; (2) Beauty labor as an incubator for cultural exchange and emo…
Strategic (De)racing
This paper investigates how middle‐class women beauty entrepreneurs negotiate belonging at the intersection of gender, race, and class. Building on in‐depth qualitative interviews with women owners of Canadian beauty brands as well as analysis of social media content created by these local stores, I highlight racial and political structures that shape the ways entrepreneurs negotiate belonging in a white‐dominant high‐end sector of the beauty mar…
“We Take the Whip and Work”
Bringing the theories of gendered and racialized organizations into conversation with research on immigration and racialization, this paper offers an intersectional understanding of the experiences of immigrant workers of color in cybersecurity. Building on interviews with 50 foreign‐born workers of color in Canada, we examine how workers perceive themselves as ideal workers to shed light on race, nationality, and gender as mechanisms that sustai…
Beauty (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Class (philosophy (1 work) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Conversation (1 work) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (1 work)