Karin A Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6104960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin A Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 340 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Normaliser l’hétérosexualité
Ces dernières années, les chercheur·es en sciences sociales ont mis au jour comment le monde social est structuré non seulement par l’hétérosexisme et l’homophobie, mais aussi par l’hétéronormativité – c’est-à-dire les manières dont l’hétérosexualité est quotidiennement privilégiée et considérée comme normale et naturelle. Il n’y a pourtant que peu de travaux empiriques sur la manière dont l’hétérosexualité est reproduite puis normalisée. À parti…
Where did I come from? US parents' and preschool children's participation in sexual socialisation
This paper applies a sociology of childhood approach to the study of the sexual socialisation of young children in the USA. It examines both children's and parents' active participation in this dynamic and collaborative process through conversations between 49 parents and their 54 preschool children that were audio-recorded while they read books about 'where babies come from'. Parents also participated in a brief survey. The authors found that, w…
Older GLBT Family and Community Life
Gender Differences in the ABC’s of the Birds and the Bees
Advice When Children Come Out
The family is one of the main areas of social life where the normalization of gay and lesbian identity is incomplete. Most research analyzes the individual and psychological aspects of how families respond to children's disclosure of a gay or lesbian identity and ignores the social, cultural, and historical contexts. An examination of the cultural discourses, tools, and strategies that are available to parents is necessary for a full understandin…
Normalizing Heterosexuality
In recent years, social scientists have identified not just heterosexism and homophobia as social problems, but also heteronormativity-the mundane, everyday ways that heterosexuality is privileged and taken for granted as normal and natural. There is little empirical research, however, on how heterosexuality is reproduced and then normalized for individuals. Using survey data from more than 600 mothers of young children, ages 3 to 6 years old, th…
Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films
In this article, the authors examine accounts of heterosexuality in media for children. The authors analyze all the G-rated films grossing $100 million dollars or more between 1990 and 2005 and find two main accounts of heterosexuality. First, heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic love relationships as exceptional, powerful, magical, and transformative. Second, heterosexuality outside of relationships is constructed through portr…
Taking Women Professionals Out of the Office
Many women professionals traverse settings beyond the office in their work, but research on women professionals rarely follows them out of the office. Using a large, archived data set of focus groups with sales professionals, the authors ask how work in out-of-the-office settings affects women's careers. The authors distinguish between two types of settings. In 'heterosocial' settings, interaction rules are traditionally and normatively gendered;…
William Wants A Doll. Can He Have One? Feminists, Child Care Advisors, and Gender-Neutral Child Rearing
Using an analysis of child care books and parenting Web sites, this article asks if second-wave feminism's vision of gender-neutral child rearing has been incorporated into contemporary advice on child rearing. The data suggest that while feminist understandings of gender have made significant inroads into popular advice, especially with regard to the social construction of gender, something akin to 'a stalled revolution' has taken place. Childre…
Giving Birth Like A Girl
Relational, selfless, caring, polite, nice, and kind are not how we imagine a woman giving birth in U.S. culture. Rather, we picture her as screaming, yelling, self-centered, and demanding drugs or occasionally as numbed and passive from pain-killing medication. Using in-depth interviews with women about their labor and childbirth, the author presents data to suggest that white, middle-class, heterosexual women often worry about being nice, polit…
Feminism and Its Discontents
Nancy J. Chodorow
The Reproduction of Mothering (1978), the work for which Nancy Chodorow is best known, seeks to explain not only why women mother, but also how gender is constructed within individuals. That is, why do we feel so deeply that we are girls/women or boys/men? How do these identities take root? And why are these identities, girl and boy, so different? Why do men and women have such different personalities? How is gender both personal and cultural?
Becoming a Gendered Body
Many feminist scholars argue that the seeming naturalness of gender differences, particularly bodily difference, underlies gender inequality. Yet few researchers ask how these bodily differences are constructed. Through semistructured observation in five preschool classrooms, I examine one way that everyday movements, comportment, and use of physical space become gendered. I find that the hidden school curriculum that controls children's bodily p…
Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities
Culture, Identities, and the Discourse of Adolescent Sexuality Janice M. Irvine 2. Adolescent Development: Whose Perspective? Jill Taylor 3. Sexuality Education for Immigrant and Minority Students: Developing a Culturally Appropriate Curriculum Janie Victoria Ward and Jill Taylor Part II: Culture and Communities 4. Culture, Context, and HIV Infection: Research on Risk Taking Among Adolescents Lee Strunin 5. Asian American Adolescents: Issues in t…
Gender and Sexuality
What is the relationship between gender and sexuality? Some theories claim that they are two distinct systems of stratification, whereas others claim that they are bound tightly together. By looking at medical opinion on homosexuality in men and women from 1900 to 1950, this article examines the relationship between sexuality and gender. Interpretive analysis of articles on homosexuality appearing in medical journals during this time suggests tha…
Becoming a Gendered Body
Many feminist scholars argue that the seeming naturalness of gender differences, particularly bodily difference, underlies gender inequality. Yet few researchers ask how these bodily differences are constructed. Through semistructured observation in five preschool classrooms, I examine one way that everyday movements, comportment, and use of physical space become gendered. I find that the hidden school curriculum that controls children's bodily p…
Normalizing Heterosexuality
In recent years, social scientists have identified not just heterosexism and homophobia as social problems, but also heteronormativity-the mundane, everyday ways that heterosexuality is privileged and taken for granted as normal and natural. There is little empirical research, however, on how heterosexuality is reproduced and then normalized for individuals. Using survey data from more than 600 mothers of young children, ages 3 to 6 years old, th…
Giving Birth Like A Girl
Relational, selfless, caring, polite, nice, and kind are not how we imagine a woman giving birth in U.S. culture. Rather, we picture her as screaming, yelling, self-centered, and demanding drugs or occasionally as numbed and passive from pain-killing medication. Using in-depth interviews with women about their labor and childbirth, the author presents data to suggest that white, middle-class, heterosexual women often worry about being nice, polit…
Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films
In this article, the authors examine accounts of heterosexuality in media for children. The authors analyze all the G-rated films grossing $100 million dollars or more between 1990 and 2005 and find two main accounts of heterosexuality. First, heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic love relationships as exceptional, powerful, magical, and transformative. Second, heterosexuality outside of relationships is constructed through portr…
William Wants A Doll. Can He Have One? Feminists, Child Care Advisors, and Gender-Neutral Child Rearing
Using an analysis of child care books and parenting Web sites, this article asks if second-wave feminism's vision of gender-neutral child rearing has been incorporated into contemporary advice on child rearing. The data suggest that while feminist understandings of gender have made significant inroads into popular advice, especially with regard to the social construction of gender, something akin to 'a stalled revolution' has taken place. Childre…
Gender Differences in the ABC’s of the Birds and the Bees
Taking Women Professionals Out of the Office
Many women professionals traverse settings beyond the office in their work, but research on women professionals rarely follows them out of the office. Using a large, archived data set of focus groups with sales professionals, the authors ask how work in out-of-the-office settings affects women's careers. The authors distinguish between two types of settings. In 'heterosocial' settings, interaction rules are traditionally and normatively gendered;…
Advice When Children Come Out
The family is one of the main areas of social life where the normalization of gay and lesbian identity is incomplete. Most research analyzes the individual and psychological aspects of how families respond to children's disclosure of a gay or lesbian identity and ignores the social, cultural, and historical contexts. An examination of the cultural discourses, tools, and strategies that are available to parents is necessary for a full understandin…
Gender and Sexuality
What is the relationship between gender and sexuality? Some theories claim that they are two distinct systems of stratification, whereas others claim that they are bound tightly together. By looking at medical opinion on homosexuality in men and women from 1900 to 1950, this article examines the relationship between sexuality and gender. Interpretive analysis of articles on homosexuality appearing in medical journals during this time suggests tha…
Older GLBT Family and Community Life
Gender and Sexuality
What is the relationship between gender and sexuality? Some theories claim that they are two distinct systems of stratification, whereas others claim that they are bound tightly together. By looking at medical opinion on homosexuality in men and women from 1900 to 1950, this article examines the relationship between sexuality and gender. Interpretive analysis of articles on homosexuality appearing in medical journals during this time suggests tha…
Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities
Culture, Identities, and the Discourse of Adolescent Sexuality Janice M. Irvine 2. Adolescent Development: Whose Perspective? Jill Taylor 3. Sexuality Education for Immigrant and Minority Students: Developing a Culturally Appropriate Curriculum Janie Victoria Ward and Jill Taylor Part II: Culture and Communities 4. Culture, Context, and HIV Infection: Research on Risk Taking Among Adolescents Lee Strunin 5. Asian American Adolescents: Issues in t…
Nancy J. Chodorow
The Reproduction of Mothering (1978), the work for which Nancy Chodorow is best known, seeks to explain not only why women mother, but also how gender is constructed within individuals. That is, why do we feel so deeply that we are girls/women or boys/men? How do these identities take root? And why are these identities, girl and boy, so different? Why do men and women have such different personalities? How is gender both personal and cultural?
Becoming a Gendered Body
Many feminist scholars argue that the seeming naturalness of gender differences, particularly bodily difference, underlies gender inequality. Yet few researchers ask how these bodily differences are constructed. Through semistructured observation in five preschool classrooms, I examine one way that everyday movements, comportment, and use of physical space become gendered. I find that the hidden school curriculum that controls children's bodily p…
Feminism and Its Discontents
Giving Birth Like A Girl
Relational, selfless, caring, polite, nice, and kind are not how we imagine a woman giving birth in U.S. culture. Rather, we picture her as screaming, yelling, self-centered, and demanding drugs or occasionally as numbed and passive from pain-killing medication. Using in-depth interviews with women about their labor and childbirth, the author presents data to suggest that white, middle-class, heterosexual women often worry about being nice, polit…
William Wants A Doll. Can He Have One? Feminists, Child Care Advisors, and Gender-Neutral Child Rearing
Using an analysis of child care books and parenting Web sites, this article asks if second-wave feminism's vision of gender-neutral child rearing has been incorporated into contemporary advice on child rearing. The data suggest that while feminist understandings of gender have made significant inroads into popular advice, especially with regard to the social construction of gender, something akin to 'a stalled revolution' has taken place. Childre…
Taking Women Professionals Out of the Office
Many women professionals traverse settings beyond the office in their work, but research on women professionals rarely follows them out of the office. Using a large, archived data set of focus groups with sales professionals, the authors ask how work in out-of-the-office settings affects women's careers. The authors distinguish between two types of settings. In 'heterosocial' settings, interaction rules are traditionally and normatively gendered;…
Normalizing Heterosexuality
In recent years, social scientists have identified not just heterosexism and homophobia as social problems, but also heteronormativity-the mundane, everyday ways that heterosexuality is privileged and taken for granted as normal and natural. There is little empirical research, however, on how heterosexuality is reproduced and then normalized for individuals. Using survey data from more than 600 mothers of young children, ages 3 to 6 years old, th…
Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children's G-Rated Films
In this article, the authors examine accounts of heterosexuality in media for children. The authors analyze all the G-rated films grossing $100 million dollars or more between 1990 and 2005 and find two main accounts of heterosexuality. First, heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic love relationships as exceptional, powerful, magical, and transformative. Second, heterosexuality outside of relationships is constructed through portr…
Gender Differences in the ABC’s of the Birds and the Bees
Advice When Children Come Out
The family is one of the main areas of social life where the normalization of gay and lesbian identity is incomplete. Most research analyzes the individual and psychological aspects of how families respond to children's disclosure of a gay or lesbian identity and ignores the social, cultural, and historical contexts. An examination of the cultural discourses, tools, and strategies that are available to parents is necessary for a full understandin…
Older GLBT Family and Community Life
Where did I come from? US parents' and preschool children's participation in sexual socialisation
This paper applies a sociology of childhood approach to the study of the sexual socialisation of young children in the USA. It examines both children's and parents' active participation in this dynamic and collaborative process through conversations between 49 parents and their 54 preschool children that were audio-recorded while they read books about 'where babies come from'. Parents also participated in a brief survey. The authors found that, w…
Normaliser l’hétérosexualité
Ces dernières années, les chercheur·es en sciences sociales ont mis au jour comment le monde social est structuré non seulement par l’hétérosexisme et l’homophobie, mais aussi par l’hétéronormativité – c’est-à-dire les manières dont l’hétérosexualité est quotidiennement privilégiée et considérée comme normale et naturelle. Il n’y a pourtant que peu de travaux empiriques sur la manière dont l’hétérosexualité est reproduite puis normalisée. À parti…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (9 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works)