Marybeth C Stalp
Biographic Data
| ID | 87607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marybeth C Stalp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marybeth C |
| FAMILY NAME | Stalp |
| SIGNATURE | STALP M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Learning How to Listen: A How-To for Qualitative Methods
Reorganizations of Gendered Labor During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Review and Suggestions for Further Research
Across a range of countries, analysts have found that adaptations to the COVID‐19 pandemic often exacerbated previously existing labor inequalities between men and women in formal employment markets and households. This has been especially true for mothers with children in their households. Drawing on decades of sociological and feminist scholarship on labor, we suggest the following three strategies to strengthen ongoing research concerning pand…
He Does (Not) Care: Covid-19 Volunteers’ Assessments of Donald Trump’s Responses to the Pandemic
How right-wing populist politicians do gender has gained increasing attention. Far less consideration has been granted to how citizens assess such politicians’ genders. Using 78 interviews and 662 self-administered questionnaires completed by American adults who were voluntarily producing personal protective equipment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyze respondents’ descriptions of then-President Donald Trump’s responses to the pande…
This was like some Little House on the Prairie shit’: The intensive care(work) of making PPE during Covid-19
In March 2020 during the first wave of COVID-19 in the United States, the national supply and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) was dangerously underwhelming. Skilled volunteer quilters, sewists and 3D printer enthusiasts emerged in a groundswell of life-saving gendered disaster response, creating face masks, ear savers, and face shields. Making PPE was both tiring and comforting, a distraction from, and solution to, the pandemi…
Volunteer Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment Makers: Third Sphere Labor, Caring Masculinities, and Redoing Gender
In the opening months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., thousands of volunteer makers stepped up to produce PPE through third sphere labor, volunteer work that emphasizes community maintenance. Drawing on 78 semi-structured interviews and 662 open-ended questionnaires, we consider how third sphere carework could destabilize hierarchies between public, private, and third sphere labor and in the valuation of feminized versus masculinized work. …
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The gendered features of adults' attributions of heroism to themselves and others has received substantially less scholarly attention than the gendered dynamics of media representations of (super)heroes. Utilizing 78 interviews and 569 self-administered questionnaires completed by adults in the United States who were voluntarily making personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, we show how respondents effectively deployed popular…
Choreographing social reproduction: Making personal protective equipment and gender during a neoliberal pandemic
Feminist scholars explore the gendered aspects of social reproduction within neoliberal contexts where the responsibility for reproducing daily and intergenerational life is shifted onto individuals and civil society groups. Using qualitative data from 665 self‐administered online questionnaires and 78 interviews with individual makers living in the United States who fabricated and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to th…
Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, Pride, and Ambivalence in Civil Society Responses to the Covid‐19 Pandemic in the USA
Do volunteers and civil society groups entrench or subvert neoliberalisation? We contribute to this debate by utilising data from 662 self‐administered questionnaires and 78 semi‐structured interviews with adults who made and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to a failed federal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the USA. The state’s failure to protect Americans angered PPE makers, even as they worked to address PPE sh…
Learning from Each Other: Refining the Practice of Teaching in Higher Education
Covid-19 Global Quilt
Notes1 Betsy Greer, “Craftivism Definition,” craftivism.com (2003), http://www.craftivism.com/definition/ (accessed August 17, 2020).2 Tal Fitzpatrick, Craftivism: A Manifesto/Methodology (Melbourne: Self-Published), 3.3 Marybeth C. Stalp, Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life (Oxford: Berg, 2007).4 National Aids Memorial, “Interactive AIDS Memorial Quilt,” (2019), http://www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quilt (accessed August 17, 2020).5 Mi…
Who Ya Gonna Call? Quilters
Marybeth Stalp on quilters helping to alleviate the shortage of personal protective equipment amid the COVID-19 pandemic
If at first you don’t succeed, rip it out and try again: The benefits of failure among DIY handcrafters
Failure is a vital part of the creative process – we learn through failure. However, within the current culture that publicly celebrates success and achievement (sometimes at all costs) people are often hesitant to admit their failures – failure has become not just something to experience, but a negative and stigmatizing label, something to be avoided at all costs. Because of this, our ‘congratulatory culture’ reduces the importance of the creati…
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Too): Complicating the Study of Femininity and Women's Leisure
Sociology is the study of society. However, not all aspects of society get the same scholarly attention by academics. Throughout my research program, I have highlighted some of the lesser‐covered areas of society, like feminine leisure seen in activities such as quilting, knitting, and membership in the Red Hat Society. In this article, I discuss how the development of sociology as a discipline has focused on public matters in society like the ec…
Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Constructing a Color Line in the Twenty-first Century
“Give Me a Boa and Some Bling!”: Red Hat Society Members Commanding Visibility in the Public Sphere
Directory of JCE Reviewers: January 2009 to June 2011
Serious Leisure in the Home: Professional Quilters Negotiate Family Space
Although quilting has become more popular in the USA since its re‐emergence in 1976, with 15 per cent of households participating at the time of writing, quilting is still thought by many to be a frivolous, quaint or silly feminized activity. Those who quilt professionally, or for profit have difficulty legitimating their efforts as ‘real work’. Our focus is on one aspect of the quilting industry — professional quilters — and their negotiation of…
Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life
Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women's Identity
Drawing from interviews and fieldwork with Red Hat Society members (RHS), we consider the growing consumer culture of the RHS, how members conspicuously consume red and purple dress, and for what purposes they do so. RHS members in this study develop visible group identity, reinforce traditional gendered behavior, and challenge publicly what it means to be "old." We investigate consumption as a means of discerning whether midlife women's particip…
“When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple”: Red Hatters Cope with Getting Old
This ethnographic study examined women's friendships in Red Hat Society (RHS) chapters. Qualitative data included in-depth interviews (n = 25), a focus group interview (n = 7), participant observation, and examination of RHS publications. Results suggest that participation in the RHS (1) aids in developing and enhancing positive attitudes about self and aging that contribute to overall well-being, (2) offers the opportunity to obtain instrumental…
My Collection is Bigger than Yours: Tales from the Handcrafter's Stash
Those who create domestic arts and handcrafts are quite familiar with the term “stash” and may even have one (or more). While it is not a reference to addictive drugs (or is it?), questions regarding the stash illuminate the themes that exist within the stash and the “lifeworlds” of the collectors of the stash. The present paper focuses on the material culture, specifically the meaning and role of the stash in the lives of handcrafters. Through e…
Case Study Research: Principles and Practices
We Do it Cuz it's Fun: Gendered Fun and Leisure for Midlife Women through Red Hat Society Membership
The Red Hat Society (RHS) offers midlife and older women a brief, chosen escape from everyday family, paid, and unpaid work duties. Toying with traditional notions of femininity and aging, the women in this study used a campy performance of gender as embodied in the RHS to both rewrite and reproduce traditional gendered scripts. That is, these midlife and older women enacted elaborate and frivolous alternate feminine identities using their RHS me…
Hiding the (Fabric) Stash: Collecting, Hoarding, and Hiding Strategies of Contemporary US Quilters
In this four-year, seventy-interview ethnographic study of US amateur quilters, I examine the guilty pleasures surrounding quilting practices, including the deviant acts of hiding both identity and fabric from family members and friends. While fabric is the medium of quilting, quilters purchase more than necessary for projects, slowly building up and hoarding a fabric stash. They then strategize hiding places for their fabric. Women's anxieties s…
Creating an Artistic Self: Amateur Quilters and Subjective Careers
As some contemporary U.S. women reach middle age, they develop interests in personal activities, filling time and space once occupied by family carework. As this occurs, women often also develop subjective careers in these new spaces—where they construct both the goals and measures of success, independent of mainstream definitions. In this interview study with 70 U.S. midlife women, I examine the process of developing a subjective career around a…
Negotiating Time and Space for Serious Leisure: Quilting in the Modern U.S. Home
Drawing on unstructured interviews with 70 American women quilters, I examine both the leisure constraints they experience and the acts of resistance they engage in while practicing serious leisure quilting. Even though quilting is a feminized and gendered activity, there are still time and space constraints in the traditional heterosexual family which impact quilting. Women resist such constraints and stereotypical notions of gender relations as…
Women’s sociological research and writing in the AJS in the pre-World War II era
We Do it Cuz it's Fun: Gendered Fun and Leisure for Midlife Women through Red Hat Society Membership
The Red Hat Society (RHS) offers midlife and older women a brief, chosen escape from everyday family, paid, and unpaid work duties. Toying with traditional notions of femininity and aging, the women in this study used a campy performance of gender as embodied in the RHS to both rewrite and reproduce traditional gendered scripts. That is, these midlife and older women enacted elaborate and frivolous alternate feminine identities using their RHS me…
Creating an Artistic Self: Amateur Quilters and Subjective Careers
As some contemporary U.S. women reach middle age, they develop interests in personal activities, filling time and space once occupied by family carework. As this occurs, women often also develop subjective careers in these new spaces—where they construct both the goals and measures of success, independent of mainstream definitions. In this interview study with 70 U.S. midlife women, I examine the process of developing a subjective career around a…
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Too): Complicating the Study of Femininity and Women's Leisure
Sociology is the study of society. However, not all aspects of society get the same scholarly attention by academics. Throughout my research program, I have highlighted some of the lesser‐covered areas of society, like feminine leisure seen in activities such as quilting, knitting, and membership in the Red Hat Society. In this article, I discuss how the development of sociology as a discipline has focused on public matters in society like the ec…
Teaching Qualitative Coding in Undergraduate Field Method Classes: An Exercise Based on Personal Ads
Dans le but de permettre a leurs etudiants de relier les materiaux de la recherche sur le terrain a la conceptualisation analytique, les AA. ont utilise une approche qualitative basee sur le codage de donnees tirees d'un corpus de petites annonces de rencontres parues dans la presse
Serious Leisure in the Home: Professional Quilters Negotiate Family Space
Although quilting has become more popular in the USA since its re‐emergence in 1976, with 15 per cent of households participating at the time of writing, quilting is still thought by many to be a frivolous, quaint or silly feminized activity. Those who quilt professionally, or for profit have difficulty legitimating their efforts as ‘real work’. Our focus is on one aspect of the quilting industry — professional quilters — and their negotiation of…
Social Order through a Prism: Color as Collective Representation
Although color has rarely been examined as a sociological topic, the meaning of color is linked to numerous social domains and serves as a collective representation. Color contributes to social meanings in institutional orders, stratification systems, and identity. While color has some meaning separate from its linkage to particular objects, in most cases colors are situated. We perceive not color, but colored objects. Any given color has multipl…
Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, Pride, and Ambivalence in Civil Society Responses to the Covid‐19 Pandemic in the USA
Do volunteers and civil society groups entrench or subvert neoliberalisation? We contribute to this debate by utilising data from 662 self‐administered questionnaires and 78 semi‐structured interviews with adults who made and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to a failed federal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the USA. The state’s failure to protect Americans angered PPE makers, even as they worked to address PPE sh…
My Collection is Bigger than Yours: Tales from the Handcrafter's Stash
Those who create domestic arts and handcrafts are quite familiar with the term “stash” and may even have one (or more). While it is not a reference to addictive drugs (or is it?), questions regarding the stash illuminate the themes that exist within the stash and the “lifeworlds” of the collectors of the stash. The present paper focuses on the material culture, specifically the meaning and role of the stash in the lives of handcrafters. Through e…
Choreographing social reproduction: Making personal protective equipment and gender during a neoliberal pandemic
Feminist scholars explore the gendered aspects of social reproduction within neoliberal contexts where the responsibility for reproducing daily and intergenerational life is shifted onto individuals and civil society groups. Using qualitative data from 665 self‐administered online questionnaires and 78 interviews with individual makers living in the United States who fabricated and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to th…
Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women's Identity
Drawing from interviews and fieldwork with Red Hat Society members (RHS), we consider the growing consumer culture of the RHS, how members conspicuously consume red and purple dress, and for what purposes they do so. RHS members in this study develop visible group identity, reinforce traditional gendered behavior, and challenge publicly what it means to be "old." We investigate consumption as a means of discerning whether midlife women's particip…
Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life
Volunteer Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment Makers: Third Sphere Labor, Caring Masculinities, and Redoing Gender
In the opening months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., thousands of volunteer makers stepped up to produce PPE through third sphere labor, volunteer work that emphasizes community maintenance. Drawing on 78 semi-structured interviews and 662 open-ended questionnaires, we consider how third sphere carework could destabilize hierarchies between public, private, and third sphere labor and in the valuation of feminized versus masculinized work. …
Learning from Each Other: Refining the Practice of Teaching in Higher Education
Poverty, Chastity, and Change: Lives of Contemporary American Nuns
Social Order through a Prism: Color as Collective Representation
Although color has rarely been examined as a sociological topic, the meaning of color is linked to numerous social domains and serves as a collective representation. Color contributes to social meanings in institutional orders, stratification systems, and identity. While color has some meaning separate from its linkage to particular objects, in most cases colors are situated. We perceive not color, but colored objects. Any given color has multipl…
The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers
Power in the Margins: Gendered Organizational Effects on Religious Activism
Teaching Qualitative Coding in Undergraduate Field Method Classes: An Exercise Based on Personal Ads
Dans le but de permettre a leurs etudiants de relier les materiaux de la recherche sur le terrain a la conceptualisation analytique, les AA. ont utilise une approche qualitative basee sur le codage de donnees tirees d'un corpus de petites annonces de rencontres parues dans la presse
Women’s sociological research and writing in the AJS in the pre-World War II era
Hiding the (Fabric) Stash: Collecting, Hoarding, and Hiding Strategies of Contemporary US Quilters
In this four-year, seventy-interview ethnographic study of US amateur quilters, I examine the guilty pleasures surrounding quilting practices, including the deviant acts of hiding both identity and fabric from family members and friends. While fabric is the medium of quilting, quilters purchase more than necessary for projects, slowly building up and hoarding a fabric stash. They then strategize hiding places for their fabric. Women's anxieties s…
Creating an Artistic Self: Amateur Quilters and Subjective Careers
As some contemporary U.S. women reach middle age, they develop interests in personal activities, filling time and space once occupied by family carework. As this occurs, women often also develop subjective careers in these new spaces—where they construct both the goals and measures of success, independent of mainstream definitions. In this interview study with 70 U.S. midlife women, I examine the process of developing a subjective career around a…
Negotiating Time and Space for Serious Leisure: Quilting in the Modern U.S. Home
Drawing on unstructured interviews with 70 American women quilters, I examine both the leisure constraints they experience and the acts of resistance they engage in while practicing serious leisure quilting. Even though quilting is a feminized and gendered activity, there are still time and space constraints in the traditional heterosexual family which impact quilting. Women resist such constraints and stereotypical notions of gender relations as…
“When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple”: Red Hatters Cope with Getting Old
This ethnographic study examined women's friendships in Red Hat Society (RHS) chapters. Qualitative data included in-depth interviews (n = 25), a focus group interview (n = 7), participant observation, and examination of RHS publications. Results suggest that participation in the RHS (1) aids in developing and enhancing positive attitudes about self and aging that contribute to overall well-being, (2) offers the opportunity to obtain instrumental…
My Collection is Bigger than Yours: Tales from the Handcrafter's Stash
Those who create domestic arts and handcrafts are quite familiar with the term “stash” and may even have one (or more). While it is not a reference to addictive drugs (or is it?), questions regarding the stash illuminate the themes that exist within the stash and the “lifeworlds” of the collectors of the stash. The present paper focuses on the material culture, specifically the meaning and role of the stash in the lives of handcrafters. Through e…
Case Study Research: Principles and Practices
We Do it Cuz it's Fun: Gendered Fun and Leisure for Midlife Women through Red Hat Society Membership
The Red Hat Society (RHS) offers midlife and older women a brief, chosen escape from everyday family, paid, and unpaid work duties. Toying with traditional notions of femininity and aging, the women in this study used a campy performance of gender as embodied in the RHS to both rewrite and reproduce traditional gendered scripts. That is, these midlife and older women enacted elaborate and frivolous alternate feminine identities using their RHS me…
Serious Leisure in the Home: Professional Quilters Negotiate Family Space
Although quilting has become more popular in the USA since its re‐emergence in 1976, with 15 per cent of households participating at the time of writing, quilting is still thought by many to be a frivolous, quaint or silly feminized activity. Those who quilt professionally, or for profit have difficulty legitimating their efforts as ‘real work’. Our focus is on one aspect of the quilting industry — professional quilters — and their negotiation of…
Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life
Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women's Identity
Drawing from interviews and fieldwork with Red Hat Society members (RHS), we consider the growing consumer culture of the RHS, how members conspicuously consume red and purple dress, and for what purposes they do so. RHS members in this study develop visible group identity, reinforce traditional gendered behavior, and challenge publicly what it means to be "old." We investigate consumption as a means of discerning whether midlife women's particip…
“Give Me a Boa and Some Bling!”: Red Hat Society Members Commanding Visibility in the Public Sphere
Directory of JCE Reviewers: January 2009 to June 2011
Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Constructing a Color Line in the Twenty-first Century
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Too): Complicating the Study of Femininity and Women's Leisure
Sociology is the study of society. However, not all aspects of society get the same scholarly attention by academics. Throughout my research program, I have highlighted some of the lesser‐covered areas of society, like feminine leisure seen in activities such as quilting, knitting, and membership in the Red Hat Society. In this article, I discuss how the development of sociology as a discipline has focused on public matters in society like the ec…
If at first you don’t succeed, rip it out and try again: The benefits of failure among DIY handcrafters
Failure is a vital part of the creative process – we learn through failure. However, within the current culture that publicly celebrates success and achievement (sometimes at all costs) people are often hesitant to admit their failures – failure has become not just something to experience, but a negative and stigmatizing label, something to be avoided at all costs. Because of this, our ‘congratulatory culture’ reduces the importance of the creati…
Covid-19 Global Quilt
Notes1 Betsy Greer, “Craftivism Definition,” craftivism.com (2003), http://www.craftivism.com/definition/ (accessed August 17, 2020).2 Tal Fitzpatrick, Craftivism: A Manifesto/Methodology (Melbourne: Self-Published), 3.3 Marybeth C. Stalp, Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life (Oxford: Berg, 2007).4 National Aids Memorial, “Interactive AIDS Memorial Quilt,” (2019), http://www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-aids-quilt (accessed August 17, 2020).5 Mi…
Who Ya Gonna Call? Quilters
Marybeth Stalp on quilters helping to alleviate the shortage of personal protective equipment amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Choreographing social reproduction: Making personal protective equipment and gender during a neoliberal pandemic
Feminist scholars explore the gendered aspects of social reproduction within neoliberal contexts where the responsibility for reproducing daily and intergenerational life is shifted onto individuals and civil society groups. Using qualitative data from 665 self‐administered online questionnaires and 78 interviews with individual makers living in the United States who fabricated and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to th…
Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, Pride, and Ambivalence in Civil Society Responses to the Covid‐19 Pandemic in the USA
Do volunteers and civil society groups entrench or subvert neoliberalisation? We contribute to this debate by utilising data from 662 self‐administered questionnaires and 78 semi‐structured interviews with adults who made and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to a failed federal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the USA. The state’s failure to protect Americans angered PPE makers, even as they worked to address PPE sh…
Sociology (27 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (8 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (8 works)